Deck 6: The Crisis Deepens the Outbreak of World War Ii

Question 1

Benito Mussolini came to power in 1922 after threatening to march on

A) the Vatican.
B) Florence.
C) Bologna.
D) Rome.
E) Naples.

Answer 1

Rome.

Question 2

"Peace in our Time" was a rallying cry by allied soldiers during the invasion of Normandy.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

By 1939 the only two major democratic states in Europe were

A) Poland and Spain.
B) France and Great Britain.
C) France and Spain.
D) Austria and Great Britain.
E) Austria and Poland.

Answer 3

France and Great Britain.

Question 4

The Atlantic Charter set self-determination as a war aim for the allies.

Question 5

In the nineteenth century, European Jews

A) were increasingly forced to live in segregated ghettos.
B) were ruled under a separate legal system which was to reinforce their "inferiority."
C) were increasingly granted legal equality.
D) were denied access to the professions of teaching, law, and medicine.
E) migrated to Palestine in the millions.

Question 6

Italian fascism included all of the following except it

A) supported traditional roles for women.
B) outlawed all non-fascist political movements and organizations.
C) gave the head of the government the power to rule by decree instead of with a parliamentary majority.
D) abolished the monarchy.
E) organized most Italian children into Fascist youth groups.

Question 7

By 1940, the Japanese government had decided to pursue a "Northern Strategy" with the aim of gaining oil and other resources from Soviet Siberia.

Question 8

In 1931 the Japanese claimed that Chinese troops attacked a railway near the city of

A) Nanjing.
B) Yan'an.
C) Mukden.
D) Nanjing..
E) Beijing.

Question 9

After the failed Beer Hall Putsch, Adolph Hitler decided to

A) overthrow the Weimar government by force, using his SA ( Sturmabteilung ).
B) attempt to come to power through constitutional means.
C) use the SS ( Schutzstaffel ) to infiltrate the German army, and have the army depose the Weimar government.
D) drop out of public sight and wait for something to happen.
E) move back to Austria, where he had influential friends and contacts.

Question 10

The modern totalitarian state can be characterized by all of the following except

A) it made use of modern technology to control their subjects.
B) it included only right-wing but never left-wing governments.
C) it was led by a single leader.
D) there was only one legal political party.
E) it transcended traditional political labels of left and right.

Question 11

In the 1930s Stalin ordered Communists to work with peaceful democratic forces by creating Popular Fronts.

Question 12

Dictatorship and totalitarianism are essentially the same phenomenon.

Question 13

One of the differences between the new totalitarian states and traditional authoritarian monarchies is that totalitarianism

A) outlawed all but the single authorized established religion.
B) demanded the active loyalty and commitment of the citizens.
C) demanded that its adherents wear distinctive uniforms.
D) rejected capitalism.
E) claimed that its rulers were chosen by God.

Question 14

Although hard fought with many casualties, the Battle of Stalingrad was a victory for Nazi Germany.

Question 15

In spite of widely differing political and economic philosophies, in August 1939 the Nazis and Soviets signed a non-aggression pact.

Question 16

Anti-Semitism was a recent historical development, and the product of the nineteenth century urban-industrial revolution.

Question 17

Adolph Hitler came to power in 1933 as the result of a violent overthrow of the Weimar Republic.

Question 18

In March 1938, Hitler succeeded in annexing independent Austria to Germany.

Question 19

Modern totalitarianism had its immediate origins in

A) the French Revolution's Terror.
B) the new imperialism of the late nineteenth century.
C) anti-democratic Czarist Russia.
D) the total warfare of World War I.
E) Social Darwinism.

Question 20

The person who condemned democracy as a "cancer" was

A) Benito Mussolini.
B) Victor Emmanuel III.
C) Adolph Hitler.
D) Paul von Hindenburg.
E) Joseph Stalin.

Question 21

Nazi totalitarianism included all of the following except

A) mass demonstrations.
B) racial laws directed against Jews.
C) the outlawing of the Christian churches, both Protestant and Catholic.
D) control of schools and universities as well as the churches.
E) the formation of Nazi-controlled professional organizations for doctors, teachers, farmers, and others.

Question 22

Hitler unilaterally repudiated the Versailles Treaty in 1935 when he

A) invaded Czechoslovakia.
B) declared war against Poland.
C) occupied the Sudetenland.
D) announced that Germany had rearmed.
E) took over Austria.

Question 23

The word which best describes the British and French response to Hitler's demands at Munich is

A) containment.
B) appeasement.
C) nonaggression.
D) passive resistance.
E) armed resistance.

Question 24

Hitler's various ideologies, as expressed in his Mein Kampf , included all of the following except

A) social Darwinism.
B) communism.
C) nationalism.
D) anti-Semitism.
E) anti-communism.

Question 25

United States military policy in the Pacific during World War II was known as

A) massive retaliation.
B) coexistence.
C) saturation bombing.
D) island hopping
E) wait and see.

Question 26

The 1936-1939 civil war in Europe that ended democracy in that country occurred in

A) France.
B) Austria.
C) Germany.
D) Italy.
E) Spain.

Question 27

Japan in the 1930s

A) was spared the disaster of the Great Depression.
B) saw an increase in the influence of militarists and extreme nationalists.
C) resulted in the triumph of Shidehara diplomacy.
D) was saved economically by the discovery of large oil reserves and substantial iron deposits in southern Japan.
E) entered the League of Nations.

Question 28

After the fall of France in June 1940, a puppet French regime was established, known as

A) Escargot.
B) Vichy.
C) the Fourth Republic.
D) Resistance.
E) Dunkirk.

Question 29

In Mein Kampf , Hitler declared that future German expansion must be to the

A) east, against Russia.
B) southeast, against Turkey.
C) west, against France and the Low Countries.
D) south, into Africa.
E) northwest, against Britain.

Question 30

World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, with

A) a German invasion of Austria.
B) an Italian assault upon Greece.
C) France's reoccupation of the Rhineland.
D) a Nazi attack on Poland.
E) the Soviet takeover of Finland and the Baltic Provinces.

Question 31

After the Nazis took over Czechoslovakia in early 1939, in the event of war the British offered to defend

A) the Soviet Union.
B) France.
C) Poland.
D) Belgium.
E) the Scandinavian nations.

Question 32

The Nazi party

A) had no success in becoming a mass political movement in the 1920s.
B) had success in the 1920s, but grew significantly as the result of the Great Depression.
C) was entirely a product of the economic crisis resulting the Great Depression.
D) was unaffected by the Great Depression, as it had come to power before it began.
E) allied itself with German communists in taking power in 1933.

Question 33

In Eastern Europe, the only truly democratic state in the 1930s was

A) Hungary.
B) Poland.
C) Romania.
D) Yugoslavia.
E) Czechoslovakia.

Question 34

By the late 1930s, Nazi Germany's chief fascist ally in Europe was

A) Japan.
B) Spain.
C) Italy.
D) Poland.
E) Austria.

Question 35

In mid-1935, the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin announced that in the future the Soviet Union would

A) declare war on Nazi Germany.
B) oppose any cooperation with capitalist nations against Hitler.
C) form an alliance with Japan against possible Nazi invasion of Soviet territory.
D) form Popular Fronts with capitalist democratic nations.
E) ally with Nazi Germany in order to facilitate the take-over of Poland.

Question 36

In September 1935, the new racial laws announced at Nuremberg to settle the "Jewish Question"

A) paved the way for Nazi mass demonstrations in the city of Nuremberg.
B) enabled Hitler to assume dictatorial power.
C) rearmed Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
D) excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriage between Jews and non-Jews.
E) sent leaders of the German communist party to concentration camps.

Question 37

At Munich, Hitler threatened war unless he was given

A) Austria.
B) the Danzig Corridor.
C) all of Czechoslovakia.
D) the Sudetenland.
E) the Rhineland, including Alsace and Lorraine.

Question 38

Hitler's first act of foreign policy aggression was the

A) annexation of Austria.
B) reoccupation of the Rhineland.
C) seizure of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia.
D) rearming of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
E) Blitzkrieg against Poland and France.

Question 39

In 1935, Mussolini welcomed Hitler's support when the French and British opposed his invasion of

A) Egypt.
B) Greece.
C) Algeria.
D) the Sudan.
E) Ethiopia.

Question 40

Hitler encouraged Germany's economic recovery by

A) issuing new currency.
B) balancing the budget and raising taxes.
C) encouraging foreign banks to invest in Germany.
D) "pump priming" through public works projects.
E) reducing Germany's bloated military expenditures.

Question 41

The meeting of the allied leaders at Yalta discussed all of the following except

A) the desire of Stalin to obtain economic resources and to establish spheres of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe.
B) Roosevelt's aim that there would be free elections in Eastern Europe.
C) an agreement to establish a United Nations.
D) Stalin's refusal to join the war against Japan.
E) the division of Germany into four occupation zones after the war was concluded.

Question 42

The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of

A) Hiroshima and Tokyo.
B) Osaka and Edo.
C) Nagoya and Nagasaki.
D) Tokyo and Osaka.
E) Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Question 43

After conquering much of Southeast Asia and the western Pacific, Japan proclaimed the organization of the

A) Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
B) Asia for the Asians.
C) Monroe Doctrine for Asia.
D) Yankee Go Home Alliance.
E) Asian Popular Front.

Question 44

On Europe's eastern front, the turning point in World War II was at the Battle of

A) Moscow.
B) Warsaw.
C) Leningrad.
D) Stalingrad.
E) El Alamein.

Question 45

Identify the following terms:
Mukden incident

Question 46

History's greatest naval invasion occurred at

A) Pusan.
B) Manila.
C) Okinawa.
D) Normandy.
E) Sicily.

Question 47

The Japanese occupation of Asia

A) used Buddhist pagodas for latrines.
B) expressed little concern for the civilians of defeated countries.
C) forced Indonesians to bow toward Tokyo.
D) expressed open contempt for local customs.
E) all of the above.

Question 48

The Holocaust did all of the following except

A) exterminated 90 percent of the Jewish population of Poland.
B) killed 2 out of every 3 European Jews.
C) built extermination camps to speed up the Final Solution.
D) only persecuted Jews and left other groups alone.
E) formed special mobile military groups called Einsatzgruppen.

Question 49

The "Final Solution"

A) envisioned the emigration of Jews to the island of Madagascar and elsewhere.
B) was enunciated by Hitler when he became chancellor of Germany in 1933.
C) was completed by the Einsatzgruppen .
D) was ultimately carried out in death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau.
E) murdered one million Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals.

Question 50

Some Southeast Asian nationalists initially welcomed the Japanese because

A) their peoples would be incorporated into a prosperous East Asian Empire.
B) they could obtain Japanese citizenship.
C) the Japanese freed them from Western colonial rule.
D) they believed that Japan would ultimately win the war.
E) they were all fellow Buddhists.

Question 51

In 1940, 330,000 mostly British troops were evacuated from

A) Normandy.
B) Dunkirk.
C) Antwerp.
D) Vichy.
E) Dover.

Question 52

On June 22, 1941, in spite of a non-aggression agreement, Nazi Germany invaded

A) France.
B) the Soviet Union.
C) Denmark and Belgium.
D) Sweden and the Baltic States.
E) Czechoslovakia.

Question 53

Japan allied with Germany in the late 1930s, largely in expectation that they would join in waging war against

A) China.
B) the Middle East.
C) the Soviet Union.
D) the United States.
E) British India.

Question 54

The probability of a future Cold War between the wartime allies was apparent even before the conference at

A) Potsdam.
B) Yalta.
C) Tehran.
D) Casablanca.
E) Munich.

Question 55

The United States gained naval superiority in the Pacific at the Battle of

A) Pearl Harbor.
B) the Coral Sea.
C) Okinawa.
D) Midway.
E) Corregidor.

Question 56

The Battle of Britain was

A) designed as a precursor of a future German invasion of Great Britain.
B) largely a land battle fought on the outskirts of London.
C) a tremendous victory for the German Luftwaffe and set the stage for the invasion of France.
D) intended to raise German morale after its defeat at Stalingrad.
E) a defeat for Great Britain because of Germany's use of radar.

Question 57

The Battle of Stalingrad ended

A) with the destruction of the entire German Sixth Army.
B) Stalin's hopes of defeating Germany.
C) Hitler's dream of returning to the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact.
D) US assistance to the USSR.
E) with the toppling of Stalin's regime in the USSR.

Question 58

The Nazi defeat in the Battle of Britain resulted in part from the British

A) development of the V-1 and V-2 rockets.
B) naval control of the English Channel.
C) radar.
D) general, Marshal Petain, and his heroic accomplishments at Vichy.
E) having a much larger air force.

Question 59

In the European Theater of Operation,  the "King Tiger" referred to

A) German tanks.
B) British fighter planes.
C) American bombers.
D) Russian infantry.
E) Italian artillery.

Question 60

All of these are true of Kristallnacht except

A) synagogues were burned.
B) Jewish businesses were attacked.
C) over a hundred Jews were killed.
D) the assassination of a German diplomat initiated the attack.
E) the horrors spurred greater rights for German Jews.

Question 61

Identify the following terms:
"Asia for the Asians"

Question 62

Identify the following terms:
Mein Kampf

Question 63

Identify the following terms:
the demilitarized Rhineland

Question 64

Identify the following terms:
"cancer of democracy"

Question 65

Identify the following terms:
"Woman into the home"

Question 66

Identify the following terms:
Mussolini's Fascio di Combattimento

Question 67

Identify the following terms:
the Anti-Comintern Pact

Question 68

Identify the following terms:
Appeasement

Question 69

Identify the following terms:
Inukai Tsuyoshi's assassination

Question 70

Identify the following terms:
Hitler Jugend

Question 71

Identify the following terms:
Franco and the Spanish Civil War

Question 72

Identify the following terms:
Schutzstaffel (SS)

Question 73

Identify the following terms:
anti-Semitism and the Aryan race

Question 74

Identify the following terms:
Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS)

Question 75

Identify the following terms:
National Socialist German Workers' Party

Question 76

Identify the following terms:
Lebensraum

Question 77

Identify the following terms:
Kristallnacht

Question 78

Identify the following terms:
the Beer Hall Putsch

Question 79

Identify the following terms:
the Wehrmacht

Question 80

Identify the following terms:
totalitarianism