Transcript American Revolution

• These four questions are due Monday, March 14th, simply
handed in on a separate sheet of notebook paper, from
Chapter 13, Section Three, “The Holocaust”
• Do not work on these during class time, unless there is
time at the end of class.
• 1) Describe the progression in discrimination against Jewish
people in Nazi-controlled territory, beginning with the
Nuremberg Laws in 1935 and including additional laws
passed in 1936 and 1938.
• 2) What happened during Kristallnacht?
• 3) Why did the European and Latin American countries, as
well as the United States not allow more Jewish people to
immigrate to their respective countries?
• 4) Do you think the German people or other nations could
have prevented the Holocaust? Why or why not?
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• (1) All of the following except ___________ were
beliefs and ideas supported by the fascists.
– A. Sanctity of private property
– B. Importance of religion
– C. Importance of individual freedoms
– D. Need for strong leadership and security in society
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• (2) The Generalplan Ost (Master Plan East)
included all of the following major ideas except
____________.
– A. Lebensraum, meaning “living space”
– B. Established peace between Germany and the
U.S.S.R.
– C. The destruction of Slavic, Jewish, and other
undesirable peoples, as mentioned in Mein Kampf
– D. The idea of autarky, which means that a great
nation needs to be self-sufficient economically
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• (3) Due to workforce demands, employers hired
female workers, especially married women, in
large numbers, as ___________ women entered
the civilian workforce between 1941 – 1945.
– A. 2 Million
– B. 3 Million
– C. 6 Million
– D. 10 Million
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• (4) The ideas of ___________ were supported by law
through at least one of the Neutrality Acts passed by
the United States before WWII.
– A. No weapons provided to nations engaged in warfare,
and non-war goods only traded through “cash and carry”
basis
– B. No weapons provided to nations engaged in warfare
and limited goods provided on credit to nations at war
– C. No weapons provided to any nation engaged in a civil
war, nor are American weapons manufacturers allowed to
construct tanks, guns, and ammo during times of peace
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• (5) All of the following were part of FDR’s Four
Freedoms except ______________.
– A. Freedom of speech and expression
– B. Freedom of every person to worship freely
– C. Freedom from want
– D. Freedom from fear
– E. Freedom from unwanted violence
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• (6) The ____________ was the largest land
invasion in terms of soldiers and the largest
military operation, producing the greatest
number of casualties in the history of warfare.
– A. Operation Barbarossa
– B. Operation Dynamo
– C. Operation Eagle
– D. Operation Sea Lion
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• (7) Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, a book written by him
while in prison, contains all of the following ideas
except ____________.
– A. Thoughts on racial purity: “The stronger must dominate the weaker
and not blend with the weaker.”
– B. The Germans need “lebensraum” or living space, so they need to
conquer the peoples around them
– C. Anti-Semitic thoughts: “Culturally [the Jew] contaminates art,
literature, the theater, makes a mockery of natural feeling, overthrows
all concepts of beauty and sublimity, of the noble and the good, and
instead drags men down…”
– D. Support for “national socialism” or the idea that all German
property should be held in “collectives”
– E. There is a master race of blond-haired and blue-eyed “Aryans”
– F. All German-speaking people should be united in a great German
empire
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• (8) Appeasement of Hitler occurred, specifically
the Munich Conference, when he expressed the
desire to occupy ___________.
– A. The Sudetenland
– B. Poland
– C. Austria
– D. Czechoslovakia
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• (9) The Anschluss was known as the occupation of
___________.
– A. France
– B. Poland
– C. Austria
– D. Czechoslovakia
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• (10). The event directly before the beginning of
WWII, the attack on Poland, was the _________.
– A. Attack on Austria
– B. Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
– C. Failure of Nazi Germany to defeat Great Britain
– D. Official publication of Generalplan Ost in the Berlin
Times
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• (11) The military operation that led to
338,226 soldiers being rescued from the
European continent was the
____________.
– A. Battle of Britain
– B. Evacuation at Dunkirk
– C. Operation Eagle
– D. Operation “Nazi-Not-Nice”
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• (12) All of the following except ___________
were causes that supported the rise of fascism in
Europe before WWII.
– A. Economic instability
– B. The ideal of “workers of the world, unite”
– C. Political instability
– D. Nationalist goal of restoring past glory
– E. For Germany, the humiliation associated with the
Treaty of Versailles
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• (13) The alliance known as ___________ was
established at the beginning of the Spanish Civil
War.
– A. Anti-Comintern Pact
– B. Tripartite Pact
– C. Rome-Berlin Axis
– D. Brest-Litovsk Alliance
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• (14) All of the following except ___________
were ideals supported by the communist
ideology and political system.
– A. Hostility towards religion
– B. Patriotic and nationalist ideals relating glories of
the past
– C. Reaction to perceived evils of capitalism
– D. Abolishment of private property and economic
equality established through “collectives”
– E. One-party rule
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• (15) Fascism and communism both believe in
___________.
– A. Importance of private property
– B. Importance of religion as an institution that can
bring people together for the common good of a
nation
– C. The importance of “the state” or the government
over the rights of individuals
– D. The importance of elections and citizen participation
in government
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• (16) This act, called the ____________, added to
the size of the U.S. Army by becoming the first
peace-time draft in U.S. History.
– A. GI Bill
– B. Selective Service and Training Act
– C. Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps Act
– D. War Production Board Act
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• (17) The United States became the “arsenal of
democracy” when the _____________.
– A. United States entered the war
– B. Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act
– C. American soldiers liberated the Jews held in
Nazi concentration camps
– D. The United States dropped the atomic bomb on
Japan
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• (18) The government agency that ran the
rationing programs and collected scarce materials
for the war effort ____________.
– A. War Productions Board
– B. Office of Price Administration
– C. Reconstruction Finance Corporation
– D. Federal Department of Rationing Administration
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• (19) At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the
United States has the ____________ largest army
in the world.
– A. 18th
– B. 10th
– C. 5th
– D. 8th
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• (20) Operation Overlord was part of an invasion
more commonly known as ___________, which
was an attempt to retake Europe for the Allied
Powers.
– A. D-Day
– B. The Ambush
– C. The Battle of the Bulge
– D. Paratroopers
Read the handout regarding
changes on the American
Homefront, answering the
questions in your notebook.
• These four questions are due Monday, March 14th, simply
handed in on a separate sheet of notebook paper, from
Chapter 13, Section Three, “The Holocaust”
• Do not work on these during class time, unless there is
time at the end of class.
• 1) Describe the progression in discrimination against Jewish
people in Nazi-controlled territory, beginning with the
Nuremberg Laws in 1935 and including additional laws
passed in 1936 and 1938.
• 2) What happened during Kristallnacht?
• 3) Why did the European and Latin American countries, as
well as the United States not allow more Jewish people to
immigrate to their respective countries?
• 4) Do you think the German people or other nations could
have prevented the Holocaust? Why or why not?