Deck 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War II

Question 1

What were the most significant ideas and outcomes of the conferences at Tehran,Yalta,and Potsdam?

Answer 1

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Question 2

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Adolf Hitler and Mein Kampf

Answer 2

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Question 3

Compare and contrast the three different paths to modernization taken by the belligerent powers of World War II (1.the Western democracies 2.Germany and Japan 3.Russia).Which one do you think was most successful and why? Which was least successful and why?

Answer 3

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Question 4

Why were militarists able to gain and exert so much power in Japan in the 1930s? Did their control of government make the Pacific phase of World War II inevitable? Explain.

Question 5

Compare and contrast the role of women in the war economies of the West and Japan.How do you explain the difference?

Question 6

What was "fascism" and what was its appeal to so many in the first half of the twentieth century?

Question 7

Discuss Japan's successes and failures in its conflict with China from 1931 until 1945?

Question 8

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Benito Mussolini's Fascio di Combattimento

Question 9

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"totalitarian state"

Question 10

What was the crucial year in determining the outcome of World War II,and why?

Question 11

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Beer Hall Putsch

Question 12

How,and why,did the battles in the Coral Sea and at Midway in the Pacific and at Stalingrad in Europe mark the turning points of World War II? Why then,and not sooner or later?

Question 13

What was the "Cold War," and was it inevitable? Why or why not?

Question 14

Describe the Holocaust in terms of its most significant events and participants.Which groups were targeted,and why?

Question 15

How did Hitler attempt to implement his New Order in Europe? To what degree was it effective and in line with his ideological goals? Why?

Question 16

Compare and contrast the authoritarianism of Stalin's Soviet Union with that of Hitler's Germany.What are the similarities and what are the differences between the two regimes? Was one more totalitarian than the other? Why and how?

Question 17

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
National Socialist German Workers' Party/Nazis

Question 18

Did the entrance of the United States into World War II,coming about six months after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union,make the defeat of Germany,Japan and Italy inevitable? Why or why not?

Question 19

Why did Japan ultimately fail in its campaign of "Asia for the Asians"?

Question 20

Was the personal background and skill of Adolf Hitler,the state of German society in the early 1930s,or the political and economic problems of the Weimar Republic most important in bringing Hitler to power in 1933? How,and why?

Question 21

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der Fuhrer

Question 22

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Hitler Jugend

Question 23

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Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact

Question 24

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the Aryan racial state

Question 25

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Mukden incident and Manchukuo

Question 26

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collectivization of agriculture/the kolkhoz

Question 27

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Nuremberg rallies and Nuremberg laws

Question 28

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Munich conference/appeasement

Question 29

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Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact

Question 30

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"Asia for the Asians"

Question 31

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SS/Schutzstaffel

Question 32

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SA/Sturmabteilung

Question 33

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Kristallnacht

Question 34

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Austrian annexation/Anschluss

Question 35

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Old Bolsheviks and the purges

Question 36

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the Enabling Act

Question 37

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the Rhineland and Ethiopia

Question 38

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the Sudentenland

Question 39

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Five-Year Plans

Question 40

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"Monroe Doctrine for Asia"

Question 41

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Marco Polo Bridge

Question 42

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the Grand Alliance

Question 43

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Dwight D.Eisenhower and June 6,1944

Question 44

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Joseph Stalin

Question 45

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Blitzkrieg and Luftwaffe

Question 46

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Pearl Harbor,December 7,1941

Question 47

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"unconditional surrender"

Question 48

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Einsatzgruppen

Question 49

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Dunkirk evacuation

Question 50

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 51

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Cologne and the Dresden raids

Question 52

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Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk

Question 53

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"Night Wiches"

Question 54

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Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway

Question 55

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the Blitz

Question 56

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Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

Question 57

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the "final solution," the Holocaust,Auschwitz-Birkenau and Zyklon B

Question 58

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Allied Strategic Bombing survey

Question 59

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Franklin Roosevelt and Harry S.Truman

Question 60

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Erwin Rommel and El Alamein

Question 61

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free elections in Eastern Europe

Question 62

Mussolini became prime minister of Italy

A)when King Victor Emmanuel,reacting to Fascist intimidation,appointed him.
B)because the Fascio di Combattimento won a majority of seats in the parliamentary election.
C)after groups of squadristi destroyed the socialist opposition to Fascist rule.
D)when he mounted a violent coup d'etat and seized control of the government.
E)when he made an alliance with the pope and the Bolshevik government of Russia.

Question 63

Hitler wrote Mein Kampf

A)during World War I.
B)before the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.
C)while in jail after the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
D)during the early years of the Great Depression.
E)after becoming Chancellor in 1933.

Question 64

What political leader told military leaders in 1933 that he wanted to remove the "cancer of democracy" from their society?

A)Benito Mussolini
B)Mao Zedong
C)Francisco Franco
D)Adolf Hitler
E)General Franco

Question 65

All of the following brought Hitler support in Germany except

A)the economic problems created by the Great Depression.
B)support of the conservative economic elite which saw him as a bulwark against communism.
C)his promise to uphold the Versailles Treaty in spite of its unpopularity.
D)his aim to restore Germany's power among the nation's of Europe.
E)his threat to tear up the Versailles Treaty.

Question 66

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Totalitarianism and Dictatorship

Question 67

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Winston Churchill and the "Iron Curtain"

Question 68

The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923

A)brought Mussolini to power.
B)was an attempt to seize power in the independent nation of Southern Bavaria.
C)brought Hitler to power in Germany.
D)gave Hitler and the Nazis publicity in Germany.
E)led to the German government exiling Hitler back to his native Austria.

Question 69

Which of the following was not true about Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy?

A)It gave him total control over all aspects of Italian life.
B)It never achieved the totality of power,in repression and media control that the dictatorships in Germany and the Soviet Union did.
C)It tried to involve all Italian youth in a program of indoctrination,but achieved only limited success in that area.
D)It maintained a program of traditional values in regard to women,and mutual acceptance and coexistence with the Catholic Church.
E)It was strongly supported by business and large landlord groups.

Question 70

The Nazi Party

A)had originally been called the Labor Party.
B)had 800,000 members by 1932.
C)gave qualified support to communism until 1935.
D)favored collectivization until 1934.
E)made class-based appeals in elections.

Question 71

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the Cold War

Question 72

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Militarism

Question 73

Which of the following statements best characterizes the totalitarian state in the 1930s?

A)It was democratic and championed individualism and democratic freedoms.
B)It was an all-compassing,authoritarian dictatorship that subordinated individual needs,and employing police power and mass propaganda achieve total control.
C)It limited its authoritarian dictates to the political and economic aspects of the state's affairs,in an effort to have freer social and cultural choices serve as means of placating the masses.
D)It wanted the masses to keep quiet and not obstruct state policy.
E)It depended upon the appeasement policies of the Eastern democracies.

Question 74

The events that allowed Hitler to gain dictatorial powers by "legal" means were

A)his Dachau speech and the two subsequent assassination attempts by the SPD in 1932.
B)the death of President Hindenburg and Hitler's speech at Hindenburg's funeral.
C)the Reichstag fire,Mussolini's "Caesar" speech,and Rommel's endorsement.
D)the crushing of the Kiel Mutiny by the SS.
E)the passage of the Enabling Act by the Reichstag.

Question 75

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United Nations

Question 76

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Tehran,Yalta,and Potsdam conferences

Question 77

Adolf Hitler was

A)an academic "superstar" who became an anti-Semite.
B)a German nationalist,a native of Austria,who used political propaganda and terror.
C)a man who deeply and publicly hated women.
D)a professional soldier in the Austrian army until 1932.
E)a policeman in Berlin from 1903 until 1914.

Question 78

The SA,or Storm Troops were

A)the Nazi party militia.
B)the major threat to the security of the Nazi Party before 1923.
C)the first type of Kolkhoz.
D)led by Hermann Goering.
E)Mussolini's Black Shirts.

Question 79

The earliest originator of the concept and practice of fascism was

A)Adolph Hitler.
B)General Francisco Franco.
C)Juan Peron.
D)Benito Mussolini.
E)Otto von Bismarck.

Question 80

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Three Paths to Modernization