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World History World War II & Cold War Review: Chapters 28 & 30
Define/identify the following key people.
1. sanctions2. demilitarized3. Rome-Berlin Axis4. Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact5. Warsaw Pact6. Marshall Plan7. Truman Doctrine8. policy of containment9. satellite stateII. Answer the following questions
10. Which city was entirely surrounded by East German territory?
11. What weakened the League of Nations? (Hint: think about which country did not join)
12. What did Nazis believe that women should be/do? (Hint: what was their role)
13. What was the purpose of bombing cities in WWII?
14. What did the U.S. government believe would happen if they lost South Vietnam to communism?
15. Why did the U.S. carry on an “island-hopping campaign” in the Pacific?
16. How was the U.S. fighting experience different from that of the major powers?
17. What was designed to restore the economic stability of European nations after WWII?
18. U.S. fears about the spread of communism were increased when which nation became
Communist in 1949?
19. How did Joseph Stalin gain complete control over the Communist Party in the Soviet Union?
20. How did Adolf Hitler end Germany’s depression, economic woes, & unemployment?
21. Which event ended the war in the Pacific in 1945?
22. Which nation’s government allied with North Korea in its attempt to take over South Korea?
23. What was the Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”), which happened on November 9, 1938?
24. Why was the Battle of Iwo Jima important to the Allies?
25. What was formed to create a military alliance between the Soviet Union and various Eastern
European nations?
26. Stalin’s Five-Year Plans were intended to transform the Soviet Union into what?
27. What were Hitler’s political theories based on?
28. Hitler wanted to dominate other countries because he believed what about Germany’s people?
29. Which group of people suffered more than 6.6 million deaths during the Holocaust?
30. How did the Germans increase their workforce?
31. What did the Truman Doctrine state that the U.S. would provide to nations threatened by
Communist expansion?
32. Why did the U.S. & the Soviet Union become rivals after WWII?
33. Which event in 1941 led to the U.S. entering World War II?
34. Why was Benito Mussolini’s fascist movement appealing to the Italian middle class?
35. Hitler demanded and was appeased & given what area in northwestern Czechoslovakia?
36. Why did the U.S. consider Cuba a threat?
37. Why did Germany break the nonaggression pact & attack its former “ally,” the Soviet Union?
38. What did the U.S. & Britain believe that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should hold?
39. What phrase did the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, use when describing the postwar
Soviet policy of communism in Eastern Europe?
40. Why did U.S. President, Harry Truman, authorize the bombing of Japan in 1945?
41. Which two countries did Hitler occupy without opposition from France & Britain?
42. Mussolini’s fascist government attempted to control its citizens through the use of what?
43. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad considered a crushing defeat for Germany?
44. Under Mussolini, the Italian fascists used propaganda to do what?
45. What did the enforcement of the Treaty of Versailles begin with the issuing of?
46. What did inflation & unemployment during the Great Depression pave the way for, in Germany?
47. What was Hitler confident of that the Western states that had signed the Treaty of Versailles
would not do?