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1. The first nation in Europe with a fascist
government:
a. Britain
b. Italy
c. Spain
d. Germany
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2. Hitler gained power:
a. through legitimate means
b. through threatening an armed revolution
c. by promising to kill Jews and communists
d. with the backing of the army
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3. Once in office, Hitler attacked:
a. businessmen
b. Nazis
c. Jews
d. Aryans
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4. Which of the following met Hitler’s standards
of a “master race”?
a. Jews and Gypsies
b. homosexuals and communists
c. “pure race” Germans with mental or physical
disabilities
d. none of these
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5. Which group was persecuted more in Nazi
Germany than any other?
a. communists
b. Jews
c. Social Democrats
d. “pure race” Germans who objected to Hitler’s rule
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6. Type of government in Germany between 1933
and 1945:
a. democratic
b. fascist
c. communist
d. socialist
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7. The policy of giving in to the demands of
aggressive dictators by Britain and France
between 1934 and 1939 was called:
a. concessions
b. conciliation
c. appeasement
d. acquiescence
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8. Which of the following words best describes
Canadian foreign policy in the period 1919–
1939?
a. involvement
b. isolationist
c. containment
d. appeasement
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9. In 1937, Mackenzie King met with Hitler in
Berlin. King’s impression of Hitler:
a. he thought he was a capable leader
b. he thought he was evil personified
c. he thought Hitler was likely to cause a war
d. he thought Canada should develop closer ties with
Germany
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10. Which of the following stages of Hitler’s
aggression happened first in time?
a. re-occupation of the Rhineland
b. invasion of Poland
c. annexation of Austria
d. annexation of the Sudetenland
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11. Which of the following stages of Hitler’s
aggression happened last in time?
a. re-occupation of the Rhineland
b. invasion of Poland
c. annexation of Austria
d. annexation of the Sudetenland
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12. In March, 1938, Hitler:
a. occupied the Rhineland
b. annexed the Polish Corridor
c. annexed the Sudetenland
d. annexed Austria
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13. As a result of the Munich Conference,
Chamberlain:
a. was attacked for being a coward
b. announced he had no more ‘territorial demands’
c. resigned in disgust
d. announced he had achieved ‘peace for our time’
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14. In 1939, some 1000 Jewish refugees fled
Germany on the S.S. St. Louis. Their fate:
a. they were accepted into Canada
b. no nation in the Western Hemisphere would accept
them
c. they landed in Cuba
d. they landed in the United States
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15. Approximate number of Jewish refugees
admitted into Canada between 1933 and
1945:
a. 200,000
b. 70,000
c. 27,000
d. 5,000
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16. Hitler’s ‘final solution’ to what he called ‘the
Jewish problem’ was:
a. their deportation to Poland
b. their forced conversion to Christianity
c. their extermination
d. their deportation to Palestine
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17. In March, 1939, Hitler annexed:
a. Poland
b. the rest of Czechoslovakia
c. the Polish Corridor
d. Danzig
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18. Hitler felt free to move against Poland in
1939 because:
a. Britain announced it would not oppose him
b. France announced it would not oppose him
c. he signed a non-aggression pact with the U.S.S.R.
d. the Poles agreed to his demands
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19. Nation invaded by Italy in 1935:
a. Libya
b. Egypt
c. Abyssinia
d. Greece
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20. Britain declared war on Germany on 3
September, 1939. Canada declared war:
a. on 3 September, 1939
b. only after Parliament approved this action
c. before Britain
d. after Pearl Harbour
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21. The British and French responded to the
German invasion of Poland by:
a. bombing Berlin
b. an all out attack on Germany
c. doing nothing
d. occupying Belgium
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22. After the fall of Poland in late September,
1939:
a. Britain and France attacked the Germans in the
west
b. Britain launched a bomber offensive against
Germany
c. there was a seven-month period of inaction
d. the British attempted to negotiate an end to the
war
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23. On 10 May, 1940, the Germans attacked
France. The result of this battle:
a. the French defeated the Germans
b. trench warfare began again on the Western Front
c. the French held out for six months
d. the French were completely defeated in five weeks
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24. When the British attempted to evacuate their
troops from Dunkirk:
a. the Germans captured most British troops
b. all British troops were evacuated
c. the British were forced to abandon their equipment
d. both b and c
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25. The Battle of Britain was unusual in that:
a. it culminated in a German invasion
b. the British lost
c. it was fought entirely by opposing air forces
d. the Germans lost
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26. The demands of total war in Canada meant:
a. all men under the age of 40 were conscripted
b. dissent was forbidden
c. the government became deeply involved in
controlling the economy
d. all consumer goods were rationed
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27. The NRMA (National Resources Mobilization
Act) in 1940 conscripted:
a. men for domestic service
b. men for overseas service
c. no one
d. all workers
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28. The nation invaded by the Germans in June,
1941:
a. Italy
b. Turkey
c. Finland
d. the U.S.S.R.
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29. Natural factor which helped the Soviets stop
the German invasion:
a. heavy fall rains
b. wide, deep rivers
c. bitterly cold winters
d. hot, dry summers
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30. The Canadian ethnic group which was
rounded up and sent to concentration camps in
1942 in B.C.:
a. German Canadians
b. Italian Canadians
c. Chinese Canadians
d. Japanese Canadians
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31. The Canadian government interned
Japanese-Canadians in concentration camps
because:
a. they were demonstrably Japanese sympathizers
b. they were seen as a threat
c. the Japanese bombed Victoria
d. all of the above
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32. The Japanese attacked the United States:
a. without declaring war first
b. in order to consolidate their control of southeast
Asia
c. because the U.S.A. attacked first
d. all of the above
e. a and b only
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33. Two Canadian battalions defended Hong
Kong when the Japanese attacked in
December, 1941. Their fate:
a. they held off the Japanese army for six months
b. they defeated the Japanese with American
assistance
c. they were forced to surrender in less than three
weeks
d. they were successfully evacuated by sea in
January, 1942
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34. French seaport which was the location of a
disastrous Canadian raid in August, 1942:
a. Calais
b. Dunkirk
c. Dieppe
d. Boulogne
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35. The Dieppe Raid:
a. was a military failure
b. provided invaluable information about amphibious
assaults
c. may have been deliberately designed to fail
d. all of the above
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36. During the war, the Canadian government
did not:
a. require men and women to register for work
b. institute rationing
c. outlaw the Communist Party
d. impose conscription for domestic military service
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37. In the Battle of the Atlantic:
a. the Canadian Navy protected convoys of supply
ships
b. the Germans used U-boats to sink supply ships
c. echo-location devices were used by Canadian
warships
d. all of the above
e. a and b only
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38. The Allies heavily bombed German cities
during the Second World War. These attacks
took place:
a. in retaliation for German bombing of British cities
b. to disrupt German industries and transport
c. to demoralize German civilians
d. all of the above
e. a and b only
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39. Which of the following weapons was not used
in the Second World War?
a. rockets
b. long range bombers
c. the atomic bomb
d. poison gas
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40. The first Allied invasion of Europe occurred in:
a. Crete
b. France
c. Sicily
d. Holland
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41. The Allies invaded Italy in 1943 because it
was supposed to be “the soft under-belly of
Europe”. In fact:
a. the Allies easily advanced north
b. the invasion was thrown back into the sea
c. the Italians fought on for two years
d. progress was slow and grueling with many
casualties
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42. Scene of a particularly bloody battle between
Canadians and Germans in Italy:
a. Salerno
b. Ortona
c. Anzio
d. Palermo
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43. Which of the following economic measures
were taken by the government during the War?
a. Victory Bonds
b. increased income tax rates
c. freeze on wages and prices
d. all of the above
e. a and b only
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44. Which of the following social benefits had not
been introduced by 1945?
a. Old Age Pensions
b. Unemployment Insurance
c. Medical Care Act
d. Family Allowances
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45. The Allied invasion of Normandy was called:
a. Operation Torch
b. Operation Goodwood
c. Operation Overlord
d. Operation Longlance
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46. On D-Day, Canadian troops landed at which
invasion beach?
a. Gold
b. Utah
c. Juno
d. Sword
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47. After Normandy, Canadian troops engaged
the Germans in:
a. southern France
b. in the Ardennes Forest
c. in Belgium and Holland
d. near Strasbourg
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48 The extermination of Jews in the Holocaust
was mainly carried out:
a. in detention camps
b. in the Soviet countryside
c. in concentration camps
d. inside Germany
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49. The Japanese surrendered after:
a. their home islands were invaded
b. a pacifist coup d'etat
c. two atomic bombs were dropped on Japanese
cities
d. the U.S.S.R. invaded Manchuria
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50. The two superpowers which emerged at the
end of the Second World War:
a. Britain and the United States
b. the United States and the U.S.S.R.
c. the U.S.S.R. and China
d. Canada and the United States