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Chapter 16 Test
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1. The Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact in 1939 with
a. Italy.
b. Poland.
c. Germany.
d. Great Britain.
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2. Great Britain and France entered World War II because of the invasion of
a. Poland.
b. Finland.
c. Denmark and Norway.
d. the Baltic States.
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3. The Germans first successfully used the blitzkrieg in an attack on
a. France.
b. Poland.
c. Finland.
d. the Soviet Union.
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4. Charles de Gaulle was the
a. French general who negotiated France's terms of surrender.
b. prime minister of France before World War II.
c. prime minister of the puppet government in southern France during World War II.
d. leader of the French government-in-exile and the Free French.
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5. All of the following were advantages for the British in fighting the Battle of Britain EXCEPT
a. radar.
b. Enigma.
c. British morale.
d. superior numbers of aircraft.
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6. The Atlantic Charter was a declaration of the right to freedom of
a. trade.
b. speech.
c. the skies.
d. economic self-determination.
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7. Why is Isoroku Yamamoto famous?
a. ordering and overseeing the Bataan Death March
b. leading the Japanese government during World War II
c. breaking the Japanese secret code during World War II
d. masterminding the Japanese naval strategy during World War II
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8. Who went on the Bataan Death March, and why?
a. Japanese soldiers, because they refused to surrender
b. Allied prisoners of war, because the Japanese forced them to
c. Allied soldiers, because it was essential to the success of the "island-hopping" strategy
d. Chinese civilians, because they were forced off their land by the Japanese invasion
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9. Which of the following events turned the tide of the war in the Pacific against Japan and allowed the Allies to
begin taking the offensive?
a. Battle of Midway
b. Battle of Guadalcanal
c. Battle of the Coral Sea
d. Doolittle's raid on Japan
____ 10. Why were the Pacific islands attacked and seized during the Allied "island hopping" chosen?
a. They were isolated and uninhabited.
b. They were farthest away from Japan.
c. They were least heavily defended by Japan.
d. They were former territories of the United States.
____ 11. Who was the mastermind of the "island-hopping" strategy?
a. Chester Nimitz
b. James H. Doolittle
c. Franklin Roosevelt
d. Douglas MacArthur
_____ 12. What did Hitler incorrectly call the Germanic people he considered the "master race"?
a. Germanian
b. Aryan
c. Nazi’s
d. football
_____ 13. This was the name given to the event when Jews home, synagogues, and homes were attacked by Nazis.
a. Kristallnacht?
b. Night of Craziness
c. Final Solution
d. genocide
_____ 14. What was the first "solution" to the "Jewish problem," and why wasn't Hitler satisfied?
a. kill every Jewish person, but not everyone was killed
b. protect “good” Jews, but that was impossible.
c. emigration, but countries stopped letting them enter their countries.
d. kill the women and children, but he could not identify all of them.
_____ 15. What is genocide?
a. flu epidemic
b. when someone leaves their country for another
c. when someone is murdered
d. systematic killing of an entire people
_____ 16. What was the main goal of the "Final Solution"?
a. to protect the so-called “purity” of the German “Aryans”.
b. Hitler’s final days
c. Hitler’s plan to give cyanide to Blondi
d. protect the purity of the Jewish population in Poland.
_____ 17. Which of these were tools or tactics that were used to implement the "Final Solution."
a. mass murder
b. extermination and labor camps
c. medical experimentation
d. all of the above
_____ 18. Identify the groups other than Jews who were singled out for the "Final Solution."
a. Poles
b. Russians (soviets, communists)
c. homosexuals
d. disabled and incurably ill
e. all of the above
_____ 19. What was Auschwitz?
a. another name for the “Final Solution”
b. death/extermination camp
c. Hitler’s political party
d. German word meaning “aryan”
____ 20. Who was the supreme commander of the Western Allied forces in Europe?
a. General George Patton
b. General Erwin Rommel
c. General Bernard Montgomery
d. General Dwight D. Eisenhower
____ 21. Which of the following occurred on D-Day?
a. the Allied invasion of Italy
b. the Allied invasion of France
c. the Allied bombing of Hiroshima
d. the Allied bombing of Nagasaki
____ 22. What was the main target of the kamikazes?
a. Ships
b. air bases
c. ground troops
d. civilian populations
____ 23. Which of the following did Stalin repeatedly urge Churchill and Roosevelt to do in order to relieve German
pressure on Soviet armies?
a. invade Italy
b. invade France
c. invade Germany
d. use atomic bombs
____ 24. Which general led the victorious troops in the Battle of El Alamein?
a. Erwin Rommel
b. Friedrich von Paulus
c. Bernard Montgomery
d. Dwight D. Eisenhower
____ 25. Why were thousands of Japanese Americans interned in relocation camps?
a. their ancestry
b. their need for protection
c. their stated support of Japanese goals
d. their unwillingness to aid the war effort
____ 26. Which of the following cities was NOT extensively damaged during the war?
a. Paris, France
b. Tokyo, Japan
c. Warsaw, Poland
d. Berlin, Germany
____ 27. Which of the following nations paid the greatest price in terms of the number of lives lost during the war?
a. Germany
b. Soviet Union
c. Japan
d. France
____ 28. In which of the following nations was the pre-war government allowed to return to power after the war?
a. Belgium
b. Japan
c. Italy
d. Germany
____ 29. What group was tried at the Nuremberg Trials?
a. Nazis
b. Communists
c. the Luftwaffe
d. war criminals from all of the Axis Powers
____ 30. Who led efforts to draw up the Japanese constitution?
a. Hideki Tojo
b. Harry Truman
c. Emperor Hirohito
d. Douglas MacArthur
____ 31. Who organized and oversaw the demilitarization of Japan?
a. U.S. Army
b. U.S. Congress
c. Diet of Japan
d. emperor of Japan
Answer the following question(s) on the back of your answer sheet
32. In a paragraph, explain why any three of the following battles were particularly significant: the Battle of El
Alamein, the Battle of Stalingrad, the invasion of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Battle of Leyte
Gulf.
33. Why do you think that an event as horrifying as the Holocaust was able to occur?
Chapter 16 Test
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Aryans
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Nazis attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany and murdered Jews.
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Emigration, but there weren't enough countries willing to take enough Jews.
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the systematic killing of an entire people
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to protect the so-called racial purity of the Germans ("Aryans")
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Students should include two of the following: mass murder, concentration camps, death camps, hard labor,
starvation, medical experimentation, gas chambers
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18. ANS:
Students should include two of the following: Roma, Poles, Russians (Soviets, Communists), homosexuals,
the insane, the disabled, the incurably ill
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extermination camp (death camp, concentration camp)
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32. ANS:
Answers could include such details as the following:
Hundreds of cities were reduced to rubble.
Farmland, factories, and transportation systems were damaged or destroyed.
Millions of refugees were stranded away from home.
There was insufficient housing, clean water, electricity, and so on.
The interruptions to agriculture caused by the war resulted in food shortages and starvation.
Widespread illness and disease plagued the region.
There was widespread unemployment and poverty.
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33. ANS:
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France: battle won by Germany; British army forced to flee the continent; German victory convinced
Mussolini to join with Germany; northern France occupied by Germany; puppet government established in
southern France.
Britain: Germany was ultimately unsuccessful; great deal of destruction and loss of life in London; British
resistance persuaded Hitler to stop bombing and to give up plan to invade Britain; British morale boosted;
Allies learned that Hitler's advances could be blocked.
Soviet Union: invasion deflected at tremendous cost to USSR; enormous loss of life on both sides; enormous
destruction to Soviet lands and cities.
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34. ANS:
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The Allied victory in the Battle of El Alamein forced the German army to begin its retreat from North Africa.
The Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad forced the German army onto the defensive in Eastern Europe.
The Allied invasion of Normandy forced the German army onto the defensive in Western Europe. It also
enabled the Allies to liberate many nations on the continent, including France.
The damage inflicted on the German army in the Battle of the Bulge was so extensive that, from then on, the
German army could do little but retreat.
The damage inflicted on the Japanese navy during the Battle of Leyte Gulf was so extensive that the Japanese
navy was eliminated as a fighting force in the war.
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Students could say that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because
the U.S. was threatening to prevent Japan from fulfilling its empire-building goals in Southeast Asia.
the U.S. Pacific fleet was stationed at Pearl Harbor.
Japan perceived the U.S. Pacific fleet as a potential threat.
In addition, students could say that the attack on Pearl Harbor
sank or damaged nearly the entire U.S. Pacific fleet.
killed or wounded thousands of Americans.
led the United States to declare war on Japan.
allowed Japan early victories in carrying out its empire-building plan.
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36. ANS:
Possible answers:
There was a long history of anti-Semitism in Europe.
The war distracted people from paying attention to the Holocaust.
Death and suffering were commonplace during the war.
People were terrified of opposing the Nazis. As long as the persecution was happening to someone else, many
chose not to react.
It was difficult for people to believe that something as horrifying as the Holocaust could actually be
happening. Absolute evil is a difficult thing for normal people to imagine.
By conquering most of Europe, Nazi Germany was able to do as it liked with the peoples of Europe.
The Nazis proceeded in gradual steps, each more devastating than the former. By the time they embarked on
their "Final Solution, " it was very difficult to successfully oppose their plans and very easy for them to round
up Jews.
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