Deck 27: The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II.

Question 1

What was the Japanese war plan in the Pacific? What were its strengths and weaknesses?

Answer 1

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Question 2

How did the Battles of Stalingrad and Midway change the course of World War II?

Answer 2

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Question 3

Please define the following key terms.
Lebensraum

Answer 3

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Question 4

Please define the following key terms.
appeasement

Question 5

What was life like on the U.S. home front? How did the U.S. government harness its population and resources to advance the war effort?

Question 6

How did the British respond to Hitler's demands with respect to Czechoslovakia? Why did they make the choices they did?

Question 7

Why did Germany have so success in the early phases of the war? Why did the German advance slow and then stall?

Question 8

Discuss Japan's relationship with Nazi Germany. How did German actions shape Japan's war plans?

Question 9

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Rome-Berlin Axis

Question 10

What was the "Final Solution"? How was it carried out?

Question 11

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Neville Chamberlain

Question 12

Compare and contrast the postwar objectives and agenda of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain.

Question 13

What steps did Hitler take between 1933 and 1937 to strengthen Germany's position in Europe? In your opinion, why were these steps so successful?

Question 14

How did the Japanese rule their Asian empire? How did they see subject populations and their resources?

Question 15

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Treaty of Versailles

Question 16

What role did racial considerations play in the Nazi rule of their empire?

Question 17

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Aryans

Question 18

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Rhineland

Question 19

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"diplomatic revolution"

Question 20

Why did the United States decide to use atomic weapons against Japan? In your opinion, was the use of atomic weapons justified?

Question 21

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"miracle of Dunkirk"

Question 22

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Sudetenland

Question 23

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Luftwaffe

Question 24

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Battle of Britain

Question 25

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Manchuria

Question 26

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Battle of Midway

Question 27

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Pearl Harbor

Question 28

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Battle of Kursk

Question 29

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"iron curtain"

Question 30

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panzer divisions

Question 31

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Normandy

Question 32

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Winston Churchill

Question 33

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Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Corp

Question 34

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Grand Alliance

Question 35

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Stalingrad

Question 36

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Munich Conference

Question 37

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Blitzkrieg

Question 38

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Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Question 39

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1939 nonaggression pact

Question 40

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"phony war"

Question 41

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gas chambers

Question 42

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Einsatzgruppen

Question 43

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Holocaust

Question 44

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Harry Truman

Question 45

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Great Patriotic War

Question 46

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Dresden

Question 47

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Madagascar Plan

Question 48

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Yalta

Question 49

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Big Three

Question 50

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unconditional surrender

Question 51

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bushido and kamikaze

Question 52

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"Asia for the Asians"

Question 53

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Auschwitz

Question 54

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Potsdam

Question 55

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Albert Speer

Question 56

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Final Solution

Question 57

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the Blitz

Question 58

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Nazi New Order

Question 59

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Cold War

Question 60

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"Night Witches"

Question 61

What U.S. action prompted the Japanese to plan an attack on the naval fleet in the Pacific?

A)The United States cut off sales of much-needed scrap iron and oil.
B)The United States signed a military alliance with China.
C)The United States taxed sales of resources needed for Japan's industrialization.
D)The United States traded more with the Soviet Union than with Japan.
E)The United States traded more with China than with the Soviet Union.

Question 62

Which of these countries was Hitler's first major European ally?

A)Italy
B)France
C)Soviet Union
D)Spain
E)Greece

Question 63

Hitler's plan for defeating Britain relied on what?

A)The support of Soviet troops in a massive amphibious invasion
B)Germany's Luftwaffe gaining control of the skies
C)V-2 rockets to destroy British industrial power
D)A giant tunnel, the "chunnel," under the English channel
E)The support of Irish fifth-columnists

Question 64

France could not oppose the German occupation of the Rhineland without the support of

A)Britain.
B)the United States.
C)the Soviet Union.
D)the League of Nations.
E)the European Union.

Question 65

Please define the following key terms.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 66

What occurred immediately following the fall of Poland in 1939?

A)France and Britain declared war and started an offensive against Germany.
B)France and Britain decided to continue to appease Hitler.
C)France and Britain declared war, but remained relatively inactive militarily.
D)Germany turned on its Russian allies.
E)France was invaded by Franco's Spain.

Question 67

What did Japanese expansionists hope to achieve in the 1930s?

A)They wanted to create trade relationship with Western powers.
B)They wanted to create a military alliance with China.
C)They wanted to create a new power structure in Asia with Japan guiding its neighbors.
D)They wanted to align with the powerful Soviet Union.
E)They wanted create a military and economic alliance with the United States.

Question 68

Hitler's first act of aggression took place in 1936 when the Germans occupied what area?

A)Austria
B)Sudetenland
C)Bavaria
D)Rhineland
E)East Tyrol

Question 69

In Hitler's view, which group threatened Germany from the east?

A)The Japanese
B)The Chinese
C)The Muslims
D)The Slavs
E)The Mongols

Question 70

What German-speaking area did Hitler demand the right to annex into the Third Reich at Munich?

A)Poland
B)Austria
C)Russia
D)Sudetenland
E)Belgium

Question 71

What did France do following the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk?

A)France soon surrendered and the Vichy government was set up as a German puppet state.
B)France went on the offensive and bogged Germany down in Normandy.
C)France benefited when Italian forces assisted Allied defenses, providing time to regroup.
D)France benefited when the United States declared war on Germany.
E)France became a temporary part of the British Empire.

Question 72

What best describes Hitler's invasion and occupation of Poland in 1939?

A)He did it despite interference by the Soviet Union.
B)He invaded and occupied Poland after a long protracted struggle that cost Germany dearly.
C)He occupied Poland after the country requested a restructured government.
D)He used Blitzkrieg or "lightning war" tactics and had the active support of Joseph Stalin.
E)He carried it out peacefully, with the reluctant acquiescence of Britain and France.

Question 73

Please define the following key terms.
"displaced persons"

Question 74

What did "appeasement" mean to the British?

A)Cozying up to Hitler
B)Trying to satisfy the demands of their allies
C)Giving in to the demands of the dissatisfied to make them content
D)Becoming the proxy for American overseas interests
E)Finding a way to mollify Stalin long enough to join Hitler in a war of conquest

Question 75

What technological innovation was crucial to British victory in the Battle of Britain?

A)Ballistic missiles
B)Automatic weapons
C)Radar
D)Sonar
E)Jet engines

Question 76

What prompted the British to offer its support to Poland in the event of war?

A)Hitler's occupation of Hungary
B)Hitler's threat to attack the Soviet Union
C)Hitler's demand of Danzig
D)Hitler's occupation of the Sudetenland
E)Hitler's invasion of France

Question 77

In 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to divide

A)Poland.
B)Norway.
C)France.
D)Belgium.
E)the Netherlands.

Question 78

Who was the Nationalist leader of China in the 1930s?

A)Mao Tse-tung
B)Chiang Kai-shek
C)Deng Xiaoping
D)Hu Jintao
E)Sun Yat-sen

Question 79

What did Hitler do following the conclusion of the Munich Conference?

A)He had Germany relinquish its claims to Czechoslovakia.
B)He took the rest of Czechoslovakia.
C)He attacked France.
D)He launched an attack on the Soviet Union.
E)He invaded Belgium.

Question 80

Which of these factors played a key role in the outbreak of World War II?

A)Great Britain's aggressive plans on Europe
B)Britain's and France's failure to strongly oppose German provocations
C)Soviet expansionism and interference in Western Europe's affairs
D)The weakness of the United Nations
E)The rampant militarism of the democracies