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WW II
1. Pablo Picasso's masterpiece
"Guernica" commemorates
A. the expulsion of French troops from
Spain during the Napoleonic Wars
B. the bombing of a Basque town during
the Spanish Civil War
C. the revival of the Spanish Republic in
the 1920s
D. the loss of life in World War I
E. the end of the Spanish Civil War
2. Which is considered the turning point
of the war on the Eastern Front?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Leningrad
Battle of Warsaw
Bombing of Dresden
Battle of Stalingrad
3. The Allied nations for world War II
included all of the following except
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Britain
Austria
United States
France
Russia
Answers
 1. b
 2. e
 3. b
4. What was the main goal of Operation
Barbarossa?
A. punishing Stalin for providing help agaisnt
Great Britain
B. gaining control of the wheat fields of the
Ukraine and the oil fields of the Caucasus
C. establishing a Nazi Puppet State in Leningrad
D. securing a water outlet to the east
E. preventing an attack by the Soviet Union
5. During World War II, the Axis Powers
conquered all of the following EXCEPT
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
the Soviet Union
the Philippines
eastern Europe
the eastern coast of China
France
6. The phrase "peace in our
time" refers to
A. the agreement at the Munich
Conference of 1938
B. the signing of the Locarno Pact
C. the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact
D. the Lateran Pact
E. the Versailles Treaty
Answers
 4. b
 5. a
 6. a
7. The purpose of the Maginot Line in
France was
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
to provide work for the unemployed created by the
Great Depression
to prevent another German invasion by building
massive fortifications along the border
to prevent the spread of revolution in the newly
formed national governments of Eastern Europe
to stop the spread of Bolshevism in the newly formed
Soviet Union
a series of alliances with Eastern European countries
to encircle Germany
8. A consequence of Nuremberg
Laws in Nazi German was
A. The creation of the SS and Gestapo
B. repudiation of the Versailles Treaty
C. exclusion of Jews from mainstream
society
D. "Night of Long Knives“
E. outlawing of the German Communist
Party
9. All of the following were a result of the
Teheran Conference EXCEPT
A. demand for unconditional surrender of
the Axis Powers
B. postwar occupation of Germany
C. second Front through France
D. first meeting of the Big Three
E. demilitarization of Germany
Answers
 7. b
 8. c
 9. a
10. Which of the following men did NOT
attend the Munich Conference?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Neville Chamberlain
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Edward Benes
Edmund Daladier
11. Which of the following nations saved almost
its entire Jewish population from extermination
during the Holocaust?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
France
The Netherlands
Denmark
Czechoslovakia
Italy
12. Hitler won the support of
the German military following
A. the destruction of the S.A. the Nazi
Party's private army
B. the destruction of the Communist Party
C. his breaking of the Versailles Treaty
D. his commitment to wipeout European
Jewry
E. his promise to remilitarize Germany
Answers
 10. d
 11.c
 12. a
13. Hitler's first violation of the Treaty
of Versailles was his
A. invasion of Russia
B. occupation of the Rhineland
C. signing of the agreement with Fascist
Italy
D. annexation of Austria
E. remilitarization of Germany
14. In the Night of the Long
Knives in June 1934,
A. Hitler ordered the Black Shirts to
arrest all members of the Communist
Party
B. begin occupying the Rhineland
C. put to death Ernst Rohm, leader of the
Brown Shirts, and 1,000 of his troops
D. arrest all Jews
E. destroy the Weimar Republic
15. The term "Phony War"
refers to
A. the American attitude toward the war until the
attack on Pearl Harbor
B. the way the British viewed the war in 1940
C. the inability of Britain and France to come to
the aid of the Poles
D. the surprising little action on the Western
Front following the fall of Poland
E. the French response to the German advance
in 194
Answers
 13. e
 14. c
 15. d
16. Recent historical scholarship on the
Holocaust focuses on the responsibility of
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
the Poles
the members of the Nazi Party
ordinary German citizens
the Nazi leadership
the Allies
17. At the Yalta Conference, the Soviet
Union agreed to
A. no separate peace treaties with the Axis
Powers
B. the joint invasion of Japan
C. free elections in Eastern Europe
D. the creation of the United Nations
E. share atomic secrets with each other
18. After receiving German and Italian support
in the Spanish Civil War, Franco responded in
World War II
A. by joining with the Allies against the
Fascist powers.
B. by remaining neutral.
C. by secretly attacking British convoys in
the Atlantic
D. by aiding Germany and Italy with arms
E. by offering to serve as a facilitator for
peace talks
Answers
 16. c
 17. c
 18. b
19. "Better Hitler than Blum!" was a
cry heard
A. in Germany following the Reichstag fire.
B. in the Soviet Union when Stalin signed
the non-aggression pact with Hitler.
C. in Spain during the Civil war.
D. in Germany following the selection of
Hitler as Chancellor.
E. in France following the victory of the
Popular Front
20. The Sitzkrieg refers to
A. the defeat of Poland
B. a phony war from October 1939 to
March 1940 where there was little
fighting after the invasion of Poland
C. a German invasion of Russia
D. the Battle of Britain
E. a German counter-attack at Battle of
the Bulge
21. Winston Churchill stood out among his
colleagues in the Conservative Party for being
firmly against
A. the formation of a coalition government
with the Labor Party
B. the blockade against the Spanish
Republic during the Civil War.
C. appeasement with the Germans
D. recognition of the Soviet Union
E. implementing the gold standard
22. Why did the wartime cooperation between the Soviet
Union and the Western Powers break down at Potsdam?
A. Stalin demanded more territory from Japan
B. The Western powers refused to acknowledge
the division of Germany
C. Stalin refused to carry out free elections n
Eastern Europe
D. Churchill insisted that Germany receive sole
blame for the war
E. The Soviet Union refused to join the United
Nations
Answers




19. e
20. b
21. c
22. c