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World War II
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Final TEST
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Directions:
Carefully complete all sections of this test. Show your integrity. When done,
turn it in to your Humanities’ teacher.
I. The Leaders. Match each leader of WW II with his country. (10 points)
___ 1. United States - right up until the end of war
A. Francisco Franco
___ 2. Great Britain - negotiated before war
B. Joseph Stalin
___ 3. Germany - during Weimar Republic
C. Emperor Hirohito
___ 4. Italy
D. Neville Chamberlain
___ 5. Germany
E. Benito Mussolini
___ 6. Japan
F. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
___ 7. Spain
G. Adolf Hitler
___ 8. Soviet Union/USSR
H. Winston Churchill
___ 9. United States - near end of war
I. Harry S. Truman
___ 10. Great Britain - during of war
J. Paul von Hindenberg
II. The “ISMs” for each Country. Match each “ism” with its country. (5 points)
___ 1. Communism
A. United States
___ 2. Fascism
B. Israel
___ 3. Nazism
C. Italy
___ 4. Zionism
D. Soviet Union
___ 5. Isolationism
E. Germany
III. The “ISMs.” Match each “ism” with its definition. (10 points)
___ 1. Militarism
A. sense of intense pride and loyalty to one’s OWN country
___ 2. Fascism
B. practice of extending the POWER of a nation by direct territorial
acquisition of colonial empires
___ 3. Nazism
C. founded by MUSSOLINI in 1921, supported a military-dominated
government in control of ALL aspects of society
___ 4. Totalitarianism D. a RELIGION developed among the ancient Hebrews and
characterized by belief in one transcendent God
___ 5. Judaism
E. an international movement orig. for the establishment of a
JEWISH national or religious HOMELAND in Palestine
___ 6. Anti-Semitism
F. a theory advocating elimination of private property- goods are
owned in COMMON and are available to all as needed
___ 7. Imperialism
G. glorification of ARMED strength and aggressive ARMED
PREPAREDNESS
___ 8. Nationalism
H. doctrines held by the National Socialist German Workers' party (a
totalitarian principle of government, state control of all industry,
racial superiority, and supremacy of the FUHRER)
___ 9. Communism
I. political concept that the citizen should be TOTALLY subject to an
ABSOLUTE state authority
___ 10. Zionism
J. HATRED of Jews
IV. Vocabulary. Match each vocabulary word with its definition. (15 points)
___ 1. culmination
A. an organized MASSACRE of helpless people; such a massacre of
Jews (originated in Russia)
___ 2. collaborator
B. the act of weakening, exhausting by constant harassment, abuse,
or attack; a REDUCTION in numbers usually as a result of death
___ 3. genocide
C. bears the BLAME for others; the object of irrational hostility
___ 4. reparations
D. more living SPACE or room for ARYANS
___ 5. pogrom
E. to COOPERATE with or willingly assist an enemy of one's country
and especially an occupying force
___ 6. scapegoat
F. to instruct especially in fundamentals: TEACH; to sway to a certain
point of view or principle
___ 7. indoctrinate
G. LIGHTNING war; conducted with great speed and force; violent
surprise offensive of closely coordinated air and ground forces
___ 8. attrition
H. to BRING to a HEAD or to the highest point
___ 9. lebensraum
I. leader of the Third Reich or Nazi Germany
___ 10. expropriation
J. PAYMENT of damages; money paid by a DEFEATED nation for
damages sustained by another nation as a result of war
___ 11. restitution
K. the action of the state in TAKING or modifying the property
rights of an INDIVIDUAL in the exercise of its POWER or
sovereignty
___ 12. blitzkrieg
L. the act or practice of KILLING or permitting the death of
hopelessly SICK or “INJURED” individuals
___ 13. complicity
M. deliberate and systematic destruction of an ENTIRE racial,
political or cultural group
___ 14. euthanasia
___ 15. Fuhrer
N. an act of RESTORING; making good or for some injury OR wrong
O. association or PARTICIPATION in or as if in a wrongful act;
GUILT
V. Hitler’s Rise to Power. Place the letter of the BEST answer in the blank. (21 points)
___ 1.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Adolf Hitler’s military career began
during World War One
at the Beer Hall Putsch
during Kristallnacht
at the Battle of the Bulge
___ 2. Many of Hitler’s ideas about the Jews can be traced to a book called Jews and
Their Lies (1543) written by
A. Julian Streicher
B. Joseph Goebbels
C. Martin Luther
D. Josef Mengele
___ 3.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Hitler’s attempt to overthrow (Nov 1923) the Weimar Republic was
Kristallnacht
the Beer Hall Putsch
Maginot Line
the Anschluss
___ 4.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Hitler’s book written while he was in jail is called Mein Kampf (Jul 1925) OR
My Courage
My Struggle
My Solution
My Hatred
___ 5.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The jail in which Hitler served his time was all of the following EXCEPT ONE
Landsberg Prison
a suite of many rooms
provided as many visitors as Hitler desired
would not allow Hitler the use of the gardens
___ 6.
to
A.
B.
C.
D.
This building was burned by a drifter from Holland, but USED
Hitler’s advantage later ...
the Reichstag or Parliament building
the Bastille or public prisons
Alcatraz, the birdman’s conservatory
Grynszpan or the Polish embassy building
___ 7. This Act in March of 1933 gave Hitler ALL the power of the government or
marital law
A. Nuremberg Laws
B. Enabling Act
C. Kristallnacht
D. Operation Barbarossa
___ 8. The leaders of the Weimar Republic didn’t “care” that Hitler became
Chancellor because they thought they
A. would receive “favors” from him
B. would turn him over to the “authorities”
C. could control him as a “puppet”
D. could hold back his most “horrid” impulses
___ 9.
A.
B.
C.
D.
“In a society where one can burn _____, then one can burn bodies” (May 1933)
laws
animals
synagogues
books
___ 10.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The Nuremberg Laws (Sept 1935) included all of the following EXCEPT ONE
boycotts of Jewish businesses
Jews could not marry non Jews
Jews could not vote or own property
no travel visas were to be granted to Jews
___ 11. Kristallnacht on November 9 and 10, 1938 was
A. the day(s) when crystal was confiscated from Jewish homes and temples
B. the night(s) that the collaborators burned books written by Jewish authors
C. the night(s) of broken glass, when businesses and synagogues were destroyed
D. the day(s) of organized boycotts and brandings of store fronts
___ 12. Hershel Grynszpan attempted to assassinate a German ambassador in France
in reaction to his parents being harmed
A. at Dachau concentration camp
B. at a boycott of their grocery store
C. during a book burning
D. during Kristallnacht
___ 13. Anschluss (Mar 1938) was a German “union” with
A. Austria
B. Czechoslovakia
C. Poland
D. Alsace-Lorraine
___ 14. The Sudentenland, or Hitler’s next conquest in March of 1939, was
A. Austria
B. Switzerland
C. Czechoslovakia
D. Sweden
___ 15. The policy that Neville Chamberlain and others decided on as they faced Hitler
in Sept 1939 was called
A. Appeasement
B. Bartering
C. Conciliation
D. Gratification
___ 16. This policy (in #15)
A. tried to prevent Hitler from taking any land at all, any where in Europe
B. gave Hitler certain “German-speaking” lands in order to stop him
C. reprimanded Hitler and his imperialistic and militaristic motives
D. forced Hitler and his government to continue to pay reparations and to disarm
___ 17. When Hitler invaded this third country, the world reacted ...
A. Soviet Union
B. Great Britain
C. France
D. Poland
___ 18. Which TWO countries declared war after Hitler invaded the country in #17?
A. Great Britain and France
B. Poland and Russia
C. Sweden and Switzerland
D. the United States and Great Britain
___ 19. Hitler’s “Final Solution to the Jewish Problem” was in effect
A. genocide or complete destruction
B. deportation to other countries
C. mass emigration
D. the creation of a Jewish state
___ 20. Hitler’s “tools” in his rise to power included all of the following EXCEPT ONE
A.
B.
C.
D.
charisma
scapegoating
restitution
propaganda
___ 21. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945 after Hitler
A. disarmed, gave himself up and left Eva Braun behind
B. shot himself in the head in his underground bunker
C. was captured by the partisans who had been plotting against him
D. was poisoned by a staff member who picked the wrong mushroom from the forest
VI. World War II. Place the letter of the BEST answer in the blank. (29 points)
___ 1. Who was placed in INTERNMENT camps in the United States during WWII?
A. German-Americans
B. Japanese-Americans
C. Spies and Traitors
D. Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses
___ 2. Il Duce was another name for
A. Hitler
B. Mussolini
C. Hirohito
D. Stalin
___ 3.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Which THREE Allied leaders met OFTEN during WWII?
Franco, De Gaulle, Truman
Hitler, Stalin, Hirohito
Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt
Truman, Chamberlain, De Gaulle
___ 4. The START date for World War II was
A. 1861
B. 1917
C. 1939
D. 1941
___ 5.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The U.S. ENTRY into World War II was
1861
1917
1939
1941
___ 6.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The FOUR major ALLIES were
France, Australia, Great Britain, Canada
Great Britain, Soviet Union, US, France
Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Greece
Austria, Belgium, New Zealand, Argentina
___ 7.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The THREE major AXIS powers were
Soviet Union, Japan, Greece
Japan, Germany, Austria
Soviet Union, Germany, Spain
Germany, Italy, Japan
___ 8.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The most famous piece of propaganda on the homefront in the US was most likely
The WAVEs or army nurses
Mary Magdalene
Rosie the Riveter
the Hun or Home
___ 9.
A.
B.
C.
D.
The most damaging piece of Nazi propaganda aimed at the Jews was most likely
The Poisonous Mushroom
Medical Experiments
Scientific “Proof” of superiority
Anschluss Annie, the Aryan
___ 10. Propaganda is BEST defined as an attempt to
A. force someone to a particular party
B. coerce agreement among political leaders
C. model “proper” behavior and moral values
D. sway the collective attitudes or ideas
___ 11. Marginalization is BEST defined during this time period as an attempt to
A. make a specific group of people seem less than another
B. make good use of the Maginot Lines of self defense
C. choose the best avenues for an enemy attack
D. evade the enemy through use of a narrow margin of arms
___ 12. Which country began WWII in an “alliance” with Nazi Germany, then shifted?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Sweden
Poland
Soviet Union
Austria
___ 13. What were the Einsatzgruppen?
A. mobile killing units that followed troops
B. a specific kind of poison used to gas people
C. the policy of boycotting Jewish businesses
D. a world wide reaction against Hitler and his ideas
___ 14. Which of the following groups of people did Hitler NOT hate vehemently?
A. Homosexuals
B. Jehovah’s Witnesses
C. Communists
D. Aryans
E. Gypsies
___ 15. Which group of people could produce almost undecipherable CODE?
A. the Navajo
B. the Germans
C. the Chinese
D. the Russians
___ 16. What was the Manhattan Project?
A. a huge battle for the control of the Atlantic Ocean
B. Hitler’s hatred of all American cities
C. an attempt to protect New York from attack
D. the production of the atomic bomb
___ 17. Kamikaze means
A. divine winds
B. unconditional surrender of the enemy
C. Hirohito’s “final solution” for the Chinese
D. shell shocked or “war crazy”
___ 18. Operation Barbarossa was
A. Russia’s withdrawal from the war
B. Hitler’s planned attack on its ally, Russia
C. a particularly effective Einsatzgruppen
D. the Battle of Midway
___ 19. The three theatres or “fronts” of WWII were
A. Pacific, Western, Eastern
B. Germany, Australia, Atlantic
C. Belgium, Africa, Canada
D. Africa, Germany, Italy
___ 20. Island-hopping refers to the US policy of
A. touching down on an island only long enough to refuel
B. skipping all the islands and zeroing in on mainland Japan
C. taking only the islands which would be strategically important
D. skipping in and out of the islands in powerful submarines
___ 21. The “death march” where the US lost 10,000 soldiers or POWs out of 70,000 in
the Philippines was called
A. Argonne
B. Bataan
C. Calliou
D. D-Day
___ 22. Which US president ordered the use of atomic bombs?
A. Roosevelt
B. Truman
C. Reagan
D. Ford
___ 23. What was the name of the plane that carried the atomic bombs?
A. Enola Gay
B. Fat Man
C. Little Boy
D. Kamikaze
___ 24. On which two Japanese cities were the bombs dropped?
A. Tokyo and Tarumi
B. Kobe and Hideko
C. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
D. Iwo Jima and Java
___ 25. The worst battle in the Soviet Union was
A. the Battle of the Bulge
B. the siege of Stalingrad
C. D-Day or Normandy Beach
D. the Battle of Okinawa
___ 26. Kamikaze also refers to
A. weather conditions during battles
B. Japanese fighter pilots
C. an ocean current
D. Chinese collaborators
___ 27. Which organization replaced the League of Nations after WWII?
A. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
B. En Ron
C. the Hague, or world court
D. UN (United Nations)
___ 28. Which concentration camp was the first to be established for journalists and
dissidents?
A. Auschwitz
B. Buchenwald
C. Chelmo
D. Dachau
___ 29. World War II ENDED in
A. 1919
B. 1934
C. 1945
D. 1947
VII. Chronology. Arrange the following events in order from FIRST to LAST by placing the
appropriate number next to the event. (10 points) *HINT: use your TEST to aid you in this
endeavor!
___ A. The US enters WWII
___ B. United Nations is founded
___ C. Hitler as a Lance Corporal - his first military experience
___ D. World War II ends
___ E. the Beer Hall Putsch
___ F. Enabling Act
___ G. Anschluss of Austria
___ H. the Versailles Treaty
___ I. World War II begins
___ J. Kristallnacht