Deck 15: The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II

Question 1

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

Answer 1

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Question 2

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

Answer 2

Answers will vary.

Question 3

define the following term:
Rome-Berlin Axis

Answer 3

Answers will vary.

Question 4

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

Question 5

define the following term:
appeasement

Question 6

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 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

define the following term:
Neville Chamberlain

Question 11

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 12

define the following term:
Treaty of Versailles

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

define the following term:
Aryans

Question 17

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

Question 18

define the following term:
Lebensraum

Question 19

define the following term:
Rhineland

Question 20

define the following term:
"diplomatic revolution"

Question 21

define the following term:
Battle of Midway

Question 22

define the following term:
Grand Alliance

Question 23

define the following term:
"miracle of Dunkirk"

Question 24

define the following term:
1939 nonaggression pact

Question 25

define the following term:
Pearl Harbor

Question 26

define the following term:
Blitzkrieg

Question 27

define the following term:
Manchuria

Question 28

define the following term:
Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Question 29

define the following term:
Stalingrad

Question 30

define the following term:
Munich Conference

Question 31

define the following term:
Winston Churchill

Question 32

define the following term:
Normandy

Question 33

define the following term:
panzer divisions

Question 34

define the following term:
Battle of Britain

Question 35

define the following term:
"phony war"

Question 36

define the following term:
Sudetenland

Question 37

define the following term:
Luftwaffe

Question 38

define the following term:
Battle of Kursk

Question 39

define the following term:
Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Corp

Question 40

define the following term:
"iron curtain"

Question 41

define the following term:
bushido and kamikaze

Question 42

define the following term:
Harry Truman

Question 43

define the following term:
Potsdam

Question 44

define the following term:
Albert Speer

Question 45

define the following term:
Big Three

Question 46

define the following term:
gas chambers

Question 47

define the following term:
Cold War

Question 48

define the following term:
Final Solution

Question 49

define the following term:
unconditional surrender

Question 50

define the following term:
"Night Witches"

Question 51

define the following term:
Einsatzgruppen

Question 52

define the following term:
Auschwitz

Question 53

define the following term:
Great Patriotic War

Question 54

define the following term:
"Asia for the Asians"

Question 55

define the following term:
Nazi New Order

Question 56

define the following term:
Holocaust

Question 57

define the following term:
Dresden

Question 58

define the following term:
Madagascar Plan

Question 59

define the following term:
Yalta

Question 60

define the following term:
the Blitz

Question 61

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 62

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

Question 63

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 64

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 65

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 66

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 67

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 68

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 69

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 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 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 72

In 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to divide

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

Question 73

define the following term:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 74

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 75

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 76

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 77

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 78

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 79

define the following term:
"displaced persons"

Question 80

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

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