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1.
France, Great Britain and Italy condemned Germany’s actions before WWII,
but did nothing further, because they were concerned with their own domestic
issues, especially the
a. Great Depression
b. Little Ice Age
c. Spanish flu epidemic
d. Cold War
2.
Great Britain began to practice a policy of appeasement after Germany
a. Reoccupied the Rhineland
b. Paid off its WWI reparations
c. Invaded Poland
d. Sank the Lusitania
3.
Appeasement was motivated by
a. A desire for peace
b. Enlightenment ideas
c. Anti-Semitism
d. The belief in the superiority of the Aryans
4.
In 1936, Hitler and Mussolini sent troops to help Francisco Franco in the
a. Spanish Civil War
b. Irish troubles
c. Quest for fire
d. Burning of the Reichstag
5.
Hitler threatened Austria with invasion if they did not allow union with
Germany, also known as
a. Anschluss
b. Blitzkrieg
c. The Schlieffen Plan
d. Magna Carta
6.
The high point of appeasement was the Munich Conference, at which France
and England allowed Germany to take over part of
a. Czechoslovakia
b. Switzerland
c. Poland
d. Russia
7.
The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of 1939 divided which country between
Germany and Russia?
a. Poland
b. Switzerland
c. Czechoslovakia
d. Russia
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8.
France and England finally declared war on Germany after the invasion of
a. Poland
b. The Rhineland
c. Austria
d. Czechoslovakia
9.
Japan left the League of Nations in 1931, after the League condemned the
Japanese invasion of
a. Manchuria
b. Vietnam
c. Albania
d. Australia
10.
When the Japanese invaded China, Chiang Kai-shek allied with his enemies in
the Chinese Civil War. These were the
a. Communists led by Mao Zedong
b. Fascists led by Benito Mussolini
c. Nazis led by Adolph Hitler
d. Americans led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
11.
Japan was warned that if they invaded Southeast Asia, the supply of oil and
scrap iron would be cut off by
a. The United States
b. Russia
c. France
d. China
12.
Hitler employed panzer (tanks) divisions, supported by airplanes in his attack
on Poland. He called this “lightning war” or
a. Blitzkrieg
b. Lebensraum
c. Kristallnacht
d. Anschluss
13.
France had constructed impenetrable defensive concrete and steel
fortifications, armed with heavy artillery, along the German border. This was
called the
a. Maginot Line
b. Great Divide
c. Second Industrial Revolution
d. Gulag Archipelago
14.
The surprise German invasion of France through Belgium trapped French
troops and the entire British army on the English Channel at
a. Dunkirk
b. Danzig
c. Leningrad
d. Normandy
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15.
Nazi occupied France was known as
a. Vichy France
b. Phony War
c. Manchukuo
d. Fourth Reich
16.
During the 1930s, United States’ isolationism had led it passing to a series of
a. Neutrality Acts
b. New Orders
c. Five Year Plans
d. Enabling Acts
17.
The Battle of Britain was exclusively a series of
a. Nazi bombing raids
b. Mail bombs
c. Attacks by panzer divisions
d. Guerilla raids
18.
December 7, 1941 is a day “that will live in infamy” to Americans. That is
the day the Japanese attacked
a. Pearl Harbor
b. Santa Barbara
c. New York
d. New Orleans
19.
The United States’ war policy was
a. Europe first
b. Never harm civilians
c. Blitzkrieg
d. Leave no man behind
20.
In the Spring of 1942, 75.000 American soldiers were captured by the
Japanese army on the Bataan Peninsula in
a. The Philippines
b. Hawaii
c. The Mediterranean
d. China
21.
The United States entered WWII on the side of Britain and
a. Russia
b. Italy
c. Germany
d. Japan
22.
El Alamein is the battle at which the British troops halted the German
invasion of
a. North Africa
b. Spain
c. Greece
d. Turkey
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23.
The siege of Stalingrad ended with the surrender of the entire Sixth Division
of the
a. German Army
b. French Army
c. Russian Army
d. Polish Army
24.
The Japanese advance into the Pacific was halted and Australia saved from the
threat of invasion at the Battle of
a. The Coral Sea
b. Bataan
c. Iwo Jima
d. Dunkirk
25.
The turning point in the Pacific came when the US Navy defeated the
Japanese navy at the Battle of
a. Midway Island
b. Kursk
c. Pearl Harbor
d. Hiroshima
26.
D-Day, June 6, 1944 was the day the Allies attacked the Germans at
a. Normandy
b. Waterloo
c. Sicily
d. Paris
27.
The Russian army began the steady push into German-occupied Eastern
Europe after defeating the Germans at the Battle of
a. Kursk
b. Moscow
c. Danzig
d. Midway
28.
The only country to ever use nuclear weapons (at Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
was
a. The United States
b. Japan
c. Russia
d. Germany
29.
Japan was saved from fighting to the last man by the surrender of
a. Emperor Hirohito
b. President Harry S. Truman
c. Prime Minister Winston Churchill
d. General Douglas McArthur
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30.
Hitler moved one million Poles out of western Poland and, to take their
places, he sent two million colonists from
a. Germany
b. France
c. Italy
d. Denmark
31.
Hitler’s plan for the Slavs was that they would
a. Become slave labor
b. Become loyal Germans
c. Germanize
d. All of the above
32.
In Hitler’s view, one group of people was trying to destroy Germany and to
control the world. These were
a. Jews
b. Slavs
c. Atheists
d. Immigrants
33.
The Final Solution was
a. Genocide
b. The two-front war
c. D-Day
d. Compulsory education
34.
Urban Polish Jews were first forced to live in
a. Ghettos
b. Munich
c. Condominiums
d. Slovakia
35.
The largest of the WWII extermination centers in Poland was
a. Auschwitz
b. Lebensraum
c. Rhineland
d. Anschluss
36.
The Nazis were responsible for the deliberate noncombat deaths of
a. Six million Jews
b. One million Roma
c. Eight million slave laborers and POWS
d. All of the above
37.
The Chinese city that suffered at the hands of rampaging Japanese troops in
1937 was
a. Nanjing
b. Tokyo
c. Sydney
d. Manila
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38.
Rescuing downed US pilots and reporting to the US army on the troop
movements of the Japanese army was done by
a. Vietnamese communists
b. Spanish fascists
c. Japanese collaborators
d. American pacifists
39.
Stalin called the Russian mobilization of industry during WWII, a
a. Battle of machines
b. Great depression
c. Crisis in confidence
d. Cold war
40.
Russian women were the only women in the war to
a. Fight in battles
b. Serve as nurses
c. Working in factories
d. Work on farms
41.
The United States became the arsenal of the Allied powers because it
produced
a. Much of the Allies’ military equipment
b. Food to feed the Allied troops
c. The best trained soldiers
d. Concentration camps to house POWs
42.
One group of people who moved out of South during WWII and into the
West and North in large numbers was the
a. African Americans
b. Mexican Americans
c. Japanese Americans
d. German Americans
43.
The people singled out to immediately sell all their property and move into
internment camps, because they were ruled to be security risks were the
a. Japanese Americans
b. Mexican Americans
c. African Americans
d. German Americans
44.
During the WWII war effort, the German government failed to enlist the
talents and work of German
a. Women
b. Soldiers
c. Men
d. Government officials
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45.
The Japanese soldiers who flew planes in suicide attacks on US ships were
known as
a. Kamikaze
b. Samurai
c. The lost generation
d. Storm troopers
46.
During WWII, Japan relied on the labor of
a. Coerced Chinese and Koreans
b. Robots
c. Women and children
d. German allies
47.
The cities of England, Germany and Japan experienced the horrors of
a. Aerial bombing
b. Long sieges
c. Nuclear weapons
d. Biological warfare
48.
The establishment of the United Nations and the agreement that Germany
would be divided, occupied and governed by the UK, US, USSR and France
occurred at
a. The Yalta Conference (1945)
b. The Munich Conference (1938)
c. The Tehran Conference (1944)
d. The Potsdam Conference (1945)
49.
Stalin announced that the USSR would occupy Eastern European countries
indefinitely at the
a. The Potsdam Conference (1945)
b. The Munich Conference (1938)
c. The Tehran Conference (1944)
d. The Yalta Conference (1945)
50.
For the first time, the officials of losing countries in a war were tried as
a. War criminals
b. Founders of genocide
c. Reparations
d. Prisoners of war
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