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CHAPTER 24
THE CRISIS DEEPENS: WORLD WAR II
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
2. Which of the following statements best characterizes the totalitarian state in the
1930s?
a. It was democratic and championed individualism and democratic freedoms.
b. Its was an all-compassing, authoritarian dictatorship that involved its citizens in
the goals of the regime, and employed police power, mass propaganda and
communications as devices to 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.
3. 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 coup d’etat and seized control of the government.
5. The earliest originator of the concept and practice of fascism was
a. Adolph Hitler.
b. General Francisco Franco.
c. Juan Peron.
d. Benito Mussolini.
6. 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.
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8. 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.
10. 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 Heinrich Himmler.
12. 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 president’s emergency powers decree and the passage of the “Enabling
Act.”
d. the crushing of the Kiel Mutiny by the SS.
14. To whip up popular support for his totalitarian regime, Hitler organized gigantic mass
rallies in the 1930's in the city of
a. Berlin.
b. Nuremberg.
c. Cologne.
d. Vienna.
16. The purpose of the SS was to
a. augment the duties of the SA.
b. use terror to enforce the policies of Nazi Germany.
c. debilitate the development of Aryan supremacy.
d. motivate industrial workers to become more productive.
17. The Nuremberg Laws established the
a. process of collectivization.
b. ethnic racial homogeneity of Nazi Germany by expelling all Asians.
c. official detachment of Germany’s Jews from the rest of the nation’s population.
d. Nazi renunciation of all anti-Semitic policies in Germany.
19. Stalin’s program of forcibly collectivizing Russian agriculture
a. boosted efficiency on Russian farms by sixty percent in the early 1930s.
b. resulted in government-made famine in 1932 and 1933.
c. was very well received by the Russian peasantry.
d. enabled the Russian peasant to greatly increase his productivity.
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20. The 1930s programs of Joseph Stalin included
a. massive purges of old Bolsheviks, army officers, party members, and many
others.
b. more liberal policies and practices dealing with the social aspects of Russian
life.
c. a halt to the five-year plans and a return to private agricultural production.
d. an informal alliance with the exiled Czarist dynasty.
23. Hitler intended to gain more land for Germany in
a. France.
b. Africa.
c. Russia.
d. the British Empire.
24. Which of the following acts by Hitler did not constitute a violation of the Versailles
Treaty?
a. the abolition of political parties
b. the creation of a new German air force
c. the introduction of a military draft that would expand Germany’s army to more
than one half-million troops
d. the German remilitarization of the Rhineland
26. At the Munich Conference of 1938,
a. the British and the French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the
Sudetenland.
b. the British prime minister refused to agree to the demands of Adolf Hitler.
c. the policy of appeasement successfully put a stop to German expansion in
Europe.
d. eventual Nazi control of all of Czechoslovakia was avoided.
28. The concept of a new “Monroe Doctrine for Asia” meant that
a. the United States would protect Asia from European exploitation.
b. Japan would play the role of protecting Asia from outside interference.
c. the Soviet Union would become the Chinese protector against Japanese
aggression.
d. Japanese relationships with the other nations of Asia would be diminished.
29. In order to avoid losing both its foreign sources of rubber, tin, rice, scrap iron and
liquid fuel, Japan decided it must
a. seize much of Southeast Asia.
b. attack United States Pacific bases in Hawaii and elsewhere.
c. make arrangements with France and the Soviet Union to get oil and steel.
d. both a and b
31. The Blitzkrieg was
a. a steady, methodical armed attack that was aimed at achieving an eventual
weakening of an enemy and, finally, surrender.
b. a coordinated sudden attack by land and air forces.
c. never able to achieve it’s specific military objectives.
d. a series of naval attacks that were aimed at blockading enemy ports.
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32. After Hitler occupied most of France, the remainder of the country became
a. Free France under Charles de Gaulle.
b. Vichy France under Marshal Henri Petain.
c. Communist France under Mendez France.
d. Republican France under Georges Clemenceau.
35. The commander of the Afrika Korps was
a. Erwin Rommel.
b. Hans von Runstedt.
c. Rudolf Hess.
d. Adolf Gruber.
36. The naval battle that established United States naval superiority in the Pacific was the
Battle of
a. Midway.
b. the Coral Sea.
c. Shimonosecki Strait.
d. Malacca.
37. On the Eastern Front,
a. Leningrad was besieged for 900 days, during which time its inhabitants were
forced to eat horses, cats, and rats.
b. in Siberia, Japanese troops never penetrated more than 500 miles inland from
their base in the Pacific port of Vladivostok.
c. German troops continued to push east of the Ural Mountains in early 1944.
d. Chinese Gurkha troops played a major role in the battles of Moscow and
Stalingrad.
38. The turning point on the Eastern Front was the battle of
a. Leningrad.
b. Stalingrad.
c. Normandy.
d. Warsaw.
40. World War II in the Far East first began with
a. Germany’s invasion of Siberia.
b. Japan’s invasion of Manchuria.
c. the capture of Singapore by the British navy.
d. Japan’s assault on Pearl Harbor.
41. The Greater East-Asia Co-prosperity Sphere was
a. America’s promise to improve the living standards of the peoples of China,
Japan, and elsewhere.
b. Japan’s declaration that East Asia would be placed under its leadership and it
would liberate the region from Western colonial rule.
c. the promise by Great Britain that India would be made part of the United
Kingdom.
d. China’s attempt to replace communism with capitalism.
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44. During World War II, the Soviet Union
a. moved many factories from the eastern part of the nation to safer locations in
the west.
b. had women actively participating in all aspects of the war effort, including
combat.
c. suffered few civilian casualties, although its military losses were well into the
millions.
d. captured Paris from the Vichy regime.
45. All of the following were true about conventional aerial bombing during World War II
except
a. it did not appear to weaken the will of the people to continue to fight the enemy.
b. German military production increased, in spite of the Allied bombing.
c. huge firestorms developed from the massive Allied aerial attacks, killing
approximately 100,000 people in Dresden in February 1945.
d. Britain was the only belligerent nation whose citizens were not exposed to
significant bomb attacks.
47. The Cold War
a. was a major factor in world affairs until the late 1980s.
b. resulted from the significant differences between Germany and the Soviet
Union.
c. was the result of the agreements reached at the Allied war conferences that
took place in 1939 and 1940, early in the war.
d. began during the battle of Stalingrad.
50. Among the major results of World War II was
a. the two major powers that had attempted to fundamentally increase their world
position had been crushed.
b. European world hegemony had been restored.
c. a multipower world had finally been restored.
d. Germany was permanently partitioned.
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