Deck 30: World War II

Question 1

Lebensraum refers to

A)the United States strenuously objected.
B)the League of Nations took steps to prevent it.
C)Britain and France did not object.
D)Britain concluded a military naval pact with Germany.

Answer 1

Britain and France did not object.

Question 2

Which of the following best characterizes Hitler's foreign policy?

A)living space for the growing German nation.
B)the name for the policy of remilitarization of the Rhineland.
C)the superiority of the Aryan race.
D)new German programs to alleviate unemployment.

Answer 2

living space for the growing German nation.

Question 3

The policy of appeasement was based upon the assumption that Germany

A)was fought between the republicans and Communists.
B)resulted in a republican victory led by Francisco Franco.
C)brought Germany and Italy closer together.
D)was just a small war of little consequence,affecting Europe very little.

Answer 3

brought Germany and Italy closer together.

Question 4

The Sudetenland was

A)Germany would eventually conquer all the land in Europe that it had lost in World War I.
B)the Allies would eventually rebuild their military to stop German expansion.
C)Germany would continue to seize land and a war would inevitably be fought.
D)Germany and the Allies would eventually find a diplomatic solution to stop German expansion.

Question 5

The secret provision of the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact was

A)a period of little activity on the western front before the invasion of France.
B)a new offensive maneuver that combined rapidly advancing tanks and aerial bombing.
C)the style of fighting that characterized tank warfare in Africa during World War II.
D)a term used to describe the stalemate of trench warfare.

Question 6

When Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland in 1936,he broke which treaty(ies)?

A)was guilty as charged in the Treaty of Versailles.
B)sincerely intended to live by the terms of the Weimar constitution.
C)had real grievances and that Hitler's goals were limited.
D)None of these answers are correct.

Question 7

What was Hitler's primary objective for Germany?

A)Locarno Agreements
B)Matignon Accords
C)Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Agreements
D)Enabling Act and the Versailles Treaty

Question 8

Which of the following lists the correct chronological order of Hitler's early territorial conquests?

A)union of Germany and Austria.
B)invasion of the Sudetenland.
C)invasion of the Rhineland.
D)invasion of Poland.

Question 9

The Spanish Civil War

A)Soviet Union
B)United States
C)Great Britain
D)France

Question 10

The Maginot Line refers to the

A)Vichy.
B)Lyons.
C)Paris.
D)Marseilles.

Question 11

Which country supported the republican forces with military aid in the Spanish Civil War?

A)an invasion by Hitler.
B)a plebiscite in which the people of Austira decided to unite with Germany.
C)the capitulation of Austrian Premier,Kurt von Schuschnigg.
D)an attack coordinated with Mussolini.

Question 12

The Anschluss referred to the

A)another name for Austria.
B)that area of Poland that contained Germans.
C)the Catholic area of Yugoslavia.
D)None of these answers are correct.

Question 13

The Sitzkrieg was

A)German air power was defeated by Soviet pilots.
B)Allied troops were evacuated from France,mostly by British civilians in small boats.
C)France surrendered to Germany.
D)Belgium finally surrendered after a courageous defense.

Question 14

The text blames what failures by the Western democratic powers for helping to contribute to the coming of World War II?

A)insisting that Britain and France pay back their war debts.
B)building up its military and promoting brinkmanship.
C)adopting an isolationist stance and removing itself from European affairs.
D)failing to fulfill its responsibilities as the hegemonic economic power.

Question 15

The union of Germany and Austria occurred through

A)Poland,France,Belgium,Austria,Sudetenland
B)Belgium,France,Austria,Sudetenland,Poland
C)Sudetenland,Austria,Belgium,France,Poland
D)Austria,Sudetenland,Poland,Belgium,France

Question 16

Dunkirk was a famous episode in 1940 in which

A)western physical boundary of France.
B)line that separates the Rhineland from Germany.
C)French defensive fortifications along the German border.
D)defensive massed tank strategy developed by the French general,Maginot.

Question 17

Italy attacked Ethiopia in 1935 for all of the following reasons except to

A)to bring together all German people into a single nation-including parts of the old Habsburg Empire
B)to see France and Britain humiliated as revenge for the Treaty of Versailles
C)to form an alliance with Russia and France to become the greatest power in Europe
D)to shut itself off from the rest of Europe and consolidate its power within its current borders

Question 18

In Churchill's speech on the Munich Agreement,he argued that the result of appeasement would be that

A)the division of Czechoslovakia between Russia and Germany.
B)military equipment supplied to Germany by the Soviet Union.
C)the partitioning of Poland between Russia and Germany.
D)Russian intelligence information that would make possible an invasion of England.

Question 19

When Hitler announced his intention to rearm Germany,

A)divert Italian attention from Fascist corruption.
B)avenge an earlier Italian defeat.
C)have access to the oil fields in North Africa.
D)restore Roman imperial glory.

Question 20

The United States contributed to the outbreak of World War II in all of the following ways except

A)He was an opportunist who wanted to restore Germany to its 1914 borders.
B)He carefully followed a blueprint for vast conquests set down early in his career.
C)He used opportunistic tactics to attain a preconceived goal of vast conquests.
D)He said Germany was a satisfied power and he meant it.

Question 21

The Atlantic Charter

A)Roosevelt,Churchill,and Stalin.
B)Truman,Attlee,and Stalin.
C)Roosevelt,Attlee,and Stalin.
D)Truman,Churchill and Stalin.

Question 22

The German general who was successful against the British in North Africa was

A)Neville Chamberlain.
B)Winston Churchill.
C)Anthony Eden.
D)Ramsay MacDonald.

Question 23

What was the economic impact of the war on Britain's working classes?

A)Stalin found it helpful in coping with the stresses of wartime.
B)it already existed,so no new resources were required to create it.
C)it helped distract Russians from the tragedies of the war.
D)it helped stoke citizens' patriotic identification with Russia.

Question 24

Charles de Gaulle

A)the destruction of much of Edinburgh.
B)a great loss of morale for the British.
C)the German abandonment of invasion plans.
D)the collapse of the Chamberlain administration.

Question 25

Which is the best summary of the Nazi position regarding German women?

A)incomes rose with increasing employment
B)incomes fell,despite increasing employment
C)unemployment rose,but incomes also rose because of government benefit programs
D)incomes fell due to broad austerity measures

Question 26

As illustrated in Map 30-6,what was the primary goal of the Allied armies in North Africa?

A)the desire to frighten the Russians into a more cooperative attitude
B)the desire to end the war quickly and save American lives
C)the automatic decision of a thoughtless bureaucracy
D)the inexperience of a new President

Question 27

The battle that turned the tide against Japan in the Pacific was

A)inspire internal revolts
B)isolate Japan
C)support the nationalist Chinese
D)liberate the Philippines

Question 28

The Battle of Britain resulted in

A)Moeltke.
B)von Ludendorff.
C)von Hindenburg.
D)Rommel.

Question 29

Which two countries lost the highest percentage of their Jewish population?

A)It was effective at first,until the Germans developed effective defenses.
B)It had little effect until fighters were used to protect the bombers.
C)It had little direct effect on the war,but the bombing undermined German morale severely.
D)In all its aspects,the bombardment was a great success.

Question 30

The turning point of the German campaign against Russia was

A)the sinking of the Lusitania.
B)the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
C)American outrage over Hitler's racial policies.
D)their fear of the spread of Communism.

Question 31

Germany failed to conquer the Soviet Union in 1941 for all of the following reasons except the

A)more territory.
B)less territory.
C)more in the west,less in the east.
D)about the same amount of territory.

Question 32

Classic Russian literature reappeared,probably because

A)was a broad set of principles in the spirit of Wilson's Fourteen Points.
B)denounced colonialism and slavery in Africa.
C)involved the lending of war supplies by the United States to Great Britain.
D)announced the U.S.desire to keep Europeans from interfering in the Americas.

Question 33

The United States entered World War II because of

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

Question 34

At the time of France's defeat in 1940,Britain was led by

A)delay of the expedition by six weeks.
B)opening of a second front by the Allies.
C)diversion of troops from the drive toward Moscow.
D)weather,which caused problems with supplies and troop movement.

Question 35

Which of the following best describes Allied strategies for the defeat of Japan,as illustrated in Map 30-5?

A)to establish a staging ground for the invasion of Italy
B)to liberate African peoples from colonial oppression
C)to restore the French and British colonial empires
D)to capture important Atlantic trading ports

Question 36

As compared to World War I,Germany in World War II conquered

A)the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
B)those murdered in Stalin's purges.
C)the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis.
D)the bombing and burning of the German city of Dresden.

Question 37

The capital of the French government that collaborated with the Germans after France's defeat was

A)controlled southern France and resisted the German occupation.
B)organized the French National Committee of Liberation.
C)set up a dictatorial regime in southern France.
D)led the Italian government that followed the fall of Mussolini.

Question 38

Which best describes the effects of the massive American and British aerial bombardment of Germany?

A)the Battle of Stalingrad.
B)the Battle of Kursk.
C)the Battle of Leningrad.
D)Operation Barbarossa.

Question 39

Which best explains the American decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan?

A)They should be re-educated to overcome their natural opposition to war.
B)They should be sheltered from knowledge of,or involvement in,the war.
C)They should contribute to the war effort in ways consistent with maternal roles.
D)They should contribute to the war effort in all possible ways.

Question 40

The Holocaust refers to

A)Yugoslavia and Romania
B)Belgium and the Netherlands
C)Poland and Latvia
D)Austria and Hungary

Question 41

The primary practical consequence of the Potsdam conference was the

A)Tehran,Yalta,Potsdam.
B)Yalta,Potsdam,Tehran.
C)Potsdam,Yalta,Tehran.
D)Tehran,Potsdam,Yalta.

Question 42

At the conference at Potsdam in 1945,the participants were

A)Western allies were forced to open a second front.
B)original idea to form a United Nations organization.
C)division of Europe into eastern and western zones of influence.
D)decision to demand heavy reparations from Germany.

Question 43

Why did Britain and France adopt a policy of appeasement in the 1930s? What were its main features? Did the appeasers buy the West valuable time to prepare for war by their actions at Munich in 1938,or did they give Hitler valuable time to solidify his power?

Question 44

Which two countries gained the most territory in the settlement that followed World War II?

A)Yalta
B)Potsdam
C)Tehran
D)Casablanca

Question 45

How was Hitler able to defeat France so easily in 1940? Why was the air war against Britain a failure? Why did Hitler invade Russia? Why did the invasion of Russia fail? Could it have succeeded?

Question 46

At this meeting,the Allied leaders agreed that the Western allies would attack Germany from the west in the summer of 1944.

Question 47

Why did Japan attack the United States at Pearl Harbor? What was the significance of American intervention in the war?

Question 48

Could Hitler have won WWII or at least reached a favorable settlement? What decision or decisions could have changed the outcome of the war? Could he have made a separate peace with the Western allies?

Question 49

Compare and contrast the strategy and tactics of World War I and World War II.What new technologies or techniques were involved in World War II? What lessons were learned from World War I and applied in World War II? What potential lessons of World War I were ignored in World War II?

Question 50

Compare and contrast the roles women played on the home fronts in Germany and the United States.What do these contrasts suggest about these two societies?

Question 51

Pick one campaign or battle of World War II that you feel to be the most important turning point in ending the war.Where and when did it occur? Who were the combatants? What happened there? Why was this campaign important in ending the war?

Question 52

What did Britain,the United States,and the Soviet Union respectively contribute to the defeat of Hitler? Support your answer with examples for each nation.

Question 53

What was the outcome of the meetings of Allied leaders at Tehran,Yalta,and Potsdam? How did these conferences affect the post-war world? What mistakes were made by the Western allies? What were their successes?

Question 54

Explain why the authors view the Second World War not as one continuous conflict with the First World War but as a separate failure of diplomacy by the Western powers.Do you agree with this perspective? Why or why not?

Question 55

The correct chronological order of Allied conferences at or near the end of World War II is

A)Germany and Italy
B)Poland and the Soviet Union
C)France and Great Britain
D)Hungary and Yugoslavia

Question 56

What were Hitler's plans for the Jews? To what extent were his plans carried out? Who besides the Nazis deserves to share the blame for this tragedy?

Question 57

What role did industrial production and logistics have in the outcome of WWII? Which country enjoyed the advantage in this field? Why was Germany able to sustain production until late in the war?

Question 58

How did the Spanish Civil War affect world politics? What roles did it play,politically and militarily,in the leadup to World War II?

Question 59

Why did the United States drop the atomic bombs on Japan? Did it make the right decision to do so? Why or why not?