Transcript World War II Era Test

World War II Era Test
World History
**** Adolph Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, which
means “____” during his brief stay in prison.
a.
b.
My Life
My Struggle
c.
d.
My Kingdom
My Country
****** The Kristallnacht was
a.
b.
c.
d.
a German concentration camp at which
thousands of Jews were executed.
a set of racial laws that excluded Jews from
German citizenship.
a destructive Nazi rampage against the Jews.
Hitler’s account of his movement and his ideas.
***** Why was the League of Nations weak?
a.
b.
c.
d.
It had too many members.
It had too few members.
The United States did not join it.
The Nazis took control of it.
***** Chiang Kai-shek’s “New Life Movement”
was
a.
b.
c.
d.
his plan to rid China of the Communists,
which he called “a disease of the heart.”
an attempt to promote traditional Confucian
values while rejecting Western capitalist
values.
a new religious movement.
patterned after Stalin’s Five-Year Plans.
****** ____ administered the Nazi Final Solution.
a.
b.
Heinrich Himmler
Reinhard Heydrich
c.
d.
Adolf Hitler
Leni Riefenstahl
Which ethnic group was a victim of genocide by the
Ottoman Turks?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Jews
Arabs
Palestinians
Armenians
Which world event helped encourage
authoritarianism in Latin America in the 1930s?
a.
b.
c.
d.
the rise in Communism
the Great Depression
the end of World War I
the division of Germany
Mohandas Gandhi protested British laws by
a.
b.
c.
d.
staging massive labor strikes to cripple British
business interests in India.
using terrorism in an attempt to drive the
British out of India.
using methods of civil disobedience, that is,
refusing to obey laws considered to be unjust.
running for British Parliament, in order to
change the laws from within the government.
Who led the People’s Liberation Army on the Long
March?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Chiang Kai-shek
Sun Fo
Sun Yat-sen
Mao Zedong
In China, in order to fight the larger Nationalist
Army, the Communists
a.
b.
c.
d.
forced peasants to join their army.
began using guerrilla tactics.
went on the Long March to recruit new
soldiers.
tried to recruit soldiers from the Nationalist
Army.
Chiang Kai-shek did not press for programs that
would lead to a redistribution of wealth because
a.
b.
c.
d.
he hated the lower classes.
he saw the working class as unimportant in his
overall “New Life Movement.”
he did not want to lose the support of the rural
landed gentry, as well as the urban middle
class.
he did not understand economic theory.
In the autumn of 1931, Manchuria was invaded by
a.
b.
c.
d.
a group of Communist agents that was trained
by the Comintern in Moscow.
the Japanese army, acting on the orders of the
newly formed Imperial Rule Assistance
Association.
an extremist group of middle-level Japanese
army officers acting without government
approval.
the Russian army.
Mao Zedong was convinced that a Chinese
revolution would be driven by the
a.
b.
c.
d.
angry urban middle class.
discontented wealthy.
disgruntled urban working class.
poverty-stricken rural peasants.
An oligarchy is a
a.
b.
c.
d.
country that claims to be a republic, but is
actually ruled by a zaibatsu.
system in which society owns the means of
production.
government in which a select few exercise
control.
government that glorifies the state above the
individual.
_____________ led the secular, modern, and
Western independence movement in India.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Gandhi
Matilal Nehrud.
The Indian National Congress (INC)
For years, Great Britain and France had been attempting to
make an alliance with the Soviet Union against Nazi
Germany. Yet in August 1939, Hitler shocked the Western
powers by making his own agreement with Stalin. The NaziSoviet Nonaggression Pact was one of the last steps leading to
World War II. Despite the pact, however, Hitler did not
intend to keep his promises to Stalin.
Which country did Germany invade about a week
after signing the Non-Aggression Pact with Russia?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Poland
Italy
Austria
Russia
Hitler demanded, and was given, what
area in northwestern Czechoslovakia?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Slovakia
Serbia
Danzig
Sudetenland
Two days after Hitler’s invasion of ____, Britain
and France declared war on Germany.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Poland
France
Austria
Slovakia
Hitler’s blitzkrieg, or “lightning war,” was
a.
b.
c.
d.
a new form of warfare that used airplanes
exclusively for the first wave of attack.
a form of attack that used tank divisions
supported by air attacks.
a strategy in which armies rested very little
between attacks to wear the enemy down more
quickly.
an air force strategy that combined jets and
helicopters in a single attack.
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese
a.
launched a full-scale invasion of southern
China.
b. attacked the British colony on the Bataan
Peninsula.
c. invaded Alaska.
d. launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific
fleet at Pearl Harbor.
What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
a.
b.
c.
d.
the Battle of Iwo Jima
the Battle of the Coral Sea
the Battle of Dunkirk
the Battle of Midway Island
The Last Years of World War II
June 6, 1944
D-Day invasion of Normandy
August, 1944
Liberation of Paris
April, 1945
Captured Berlin
May 7, 1945
Germany surrenders
August 6, 1945 Drop atomic bomb on Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 Drop atomic bomb on Nagasaki
August 14, 1945 Japan surrenders
Which event occurred less than two weeks before
Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II?
a.
b.
c.
d.
the dropping of atomic bombs
the capture of Berlin
the D-Day invasion
the surrender of Germany
When the Einsatzgruppen proved to be too slow for
the Nazis, they
a.
built special extermination camps in Poland.
b.
added more troops to them, taken from the
Western front.
gave up and focused their attention on the
Soviet front.
invaded England.
c.
d.
At the Tehran Conference, Stalin, Roosevelt, and
Churchill decided to
a.
b.
c.
d.
establish a League of Nations organization
after the war.
defeat Germany and then unite against China.
end the League of Nations mandates over the
Middle Eastern countries.
make a final assault on postwar Germany.
At the Potsdam Conference, Truman demanded
____ throughout Eastern Europe.
a.
a joint British-Russian military presence
b.
freely elected governments
c.
the reestablishment of the prewar national
boundaries
d.
widespread demilitarization