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Study guide for Unit 5 Test
1) What is the difference between Lenin’s New Economic Policy and Stalin’s Five-Year Plan?
Lenin’s NEP allowed some privately owned businesses.
2) What did the increase in industrialization in Japan lead to a growing demand for?
Natural resources
3) Which World War II leader encouraged the British people to resist the Nazis by “wage war,
by sea, land and air, with all our strength, that God can give us…against monstrous tyranny”?
Winston Churchill
4) Why did the Soviet Union enter World War II?
Invaded by Germany
5) What were the causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917? Anger over military defeats in
WWI, Japan defeated Russia in Russo-Japanese War; peasants wanted their own land, and
the incompetence of Czar Nicholas II
6) Hitler passed the First Decree to the German Reich Citizenship Law in 1935 which said, “A
Jew cannot be a Reich citizen. He has no voting rights in political matters; he cannot occupy
public office.” What did policies like this lead to before and during the war? The Holocaust
7) What results came from collectivization in the U.S.S.R.? eliminated a large group of
peasant farmers.
8) Why did The League of Nations fail? It was weak and did not have the power to enforce its
decisions.
9) After World War I, what was the system established to administer colonies of defeated powers
known as? Mandate system
10) What were the causes of the worldwide depression following World War I? world
economies were connected, uneven distribution of wealth, overproduction, buying stocks on
margin, and high protective tariffs.
11) What were the results of the Treaty of Versailles? Germany had to pay reparations,
Germany lost its colonies, Germany had to reduce the size of its military, sole responsibility
of the war placed on Germany, and the League of Nations organized.
12) Why did France and Britain engage in appeasement? In hopes of avoiding war with
Germany
13) What did the depression of the 1920s and 1930s lead to in Germany and Italy?
Totalitarian dictators
14) What world leader drew up the Fourteen Points adopted into the Treaty of Versailles?
Woodrow Wilson
15) Which nations administered territorial mandates in the Middle East under the League of
Nations? Great Britain and France
16) What are the causes of World War II? Failures of the Treaty of Versailles, Nationalism,
aggression by totalitarian powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan, appeasement, weakness of
the League of Nations, and isolationism/pacifism by the U.S.
17) Who was the Soviet leader during World War II? Stalin
18) Which organization was a model for the current United Nations? The League of Nations
19) What were reasons for the Allied victory in World War II? Mobilization of the American
economy and armed forces
20) What is genocide? The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, religious,
political, or cultural group
21) What are the main Allied Powers during World War II? Great Britain, France, U.S.S.R.,
and the United States
22) What are the main Axis Powers during World War II? Germany, Italy, and Japan
23) In 1994, Rwanda experienced a bitter civil war between what two tribes? Tutsi and Hutu
24) Who was the commander of the Pacific during World War II and administrator of Japan after
the war? General Douglas MacArthur
25) Who was the president at the outbreak of WWII? Franklin Delano Roosevelt
26) Who was the American general in charge of the D-Day landing? Dwight Eisenhower
27) Who was the British Prime minister during WWII? Winston Churchill
28) Who was the American president at the end of WWII and the one who decided to use the
atomic bomb? Harry Truman
29) Who was the Japanese Emperor? Hirohito
30) Who was the Nazi German leader? Adolf Hitler
31) Who was the American general and top advisor to FDR during the war?
George C. Marshall
32) Who was the top Japanese general and prime minister of Japan? Hideki Tojo
33) Who was the American general during the Philippine campaign? Douglas MacArthur
34) What were some reasons for the worldwide depression? Quotas and high protective tariffs,
the expansion of credit, the Stock Market Crash of 1929, overproduction, and worldwide
economic connections