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U.S. HISTORY
Week 2 - A World In Flames - Ch 11 -section 1-4
Fill in (20 points)
1. Use the numbers below that corresponds to the appropriate term.
1 Italy
7 Nazi
15 United States
17 Appease
5 Fascist
6 Hitler
12 Stalin
13 Non Aggression
2 Germany
4 Mussolini
10 USSR
20 Poland
8 Manchuria
16 Great Britain
11 Communist
9 Pearl Harbor
18 Occupied
19 Ethnic Purity
3 Japan
14 Allies
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2. Explain why isolationism was strong in the United States in the early 1930s. (5 points)
Unpaid European war debts; belief that arms manufacturer influenced (tricked) U.S. to enter WWI
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3. What events caused President Roosevelt to become more of an internationalist? (5 points)
Japanese invasion of China (Manchuria)
4. Why did antidemocratic governments rise to power in postwar Europe and Asia? (5 points)
Unhappiness with the Treaty of Versailles terms; worldwide economic depression
5. Explain why Hitler was able to take over Austria and Czechoslovakia. (5 points)
Britain and France gave in to Hitler’s demands
6. How did the policy of appeasement affect France and Great Britain? (5 points)
France was not prepared for the German attack; Britain was left to fight alone
7. Why were the British able to prevent the Germans from invading their country? (5 points)
Britain was an island with a strong air force, navy, and radar stations
8. List the groups of people who were persecuted by the Nazis. (5 points)
Jews, disabled, gypsies, homosexuals, Slavic peoples, Soviet prisoners
9. What are some factors that attempt to explain the Holocaust? (5 points)
Hitler’s dictatorship; European anti-Semitism; propaganda, fear
10. List the methods used to try to exterminate Europe’s Jewish population. (5 points)
Gas chambers, malnutrition, untreated disease, worked to death
11. After Roosevelt made the destroyers-for-bases deal with Britain, some Americans called him a dictator. Explain why
some thought he was and wasn’t according to the opinion of that time. (5 points)
Some said it was important to stop Nazi Germany; others said Roosevelt had violated the Neutrality Act
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Define (2 points each)
Appeasement
Holocaust
Internationalism
Concentration camp
Nuremberg Laws
Neutrality Act 1935
A policy of giving concessions in exchange for peace
Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews during World War II
The idea that trade between nations creates prosperity and helps to prevent war
Detention centers
Took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other
Germans
An act that made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war
Lend-Lease Act
the United States lent or leased arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the
United States”
Battle of Britain
Air battle which lasted into the fall of 1940
America First
Committee
Extermination camp
Fascism
Atlantic Charter
Manchuria
Blitzkrieg
Wannsee Conference
A staunchly isolationist group that firmly opposed any American intervention or aid to the
Allies
Massive gas chambers
A kind of aggressive nationalism; argues that individualism made countries weak and that a
strong government led by a dictator was needed to impose order on society
Postwar commitment of world democracy, nonaggression, free trade, economic advancement,
and freedom of the seas
A resource-rich province of in northern China
Lightning war; using large numbers of massed tanks
Held in a Berlin suburb to determine the “final solution of the Jewish question”
Week 2 of 20.
The 1st quiz towards your midterm.
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