Deck 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War 2

Question 1

In October 1935, Benito Mussolini committed Fascist Italy to imperial expansion by invading Ethiopia.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The Nazi Party

A)had originally been called the Labor Party.
B)had 800,000 members by 1932.
C)gave qualified support to communism until 1935.
D)favored collectivization until 1934.
E)made class-based appeals in elections.

Answer 2

had 800,000 members by 1932.

Question 3

Which of the following statements best characterizes the totalitarian state in the 1930s?

A)It was democratic and championed individualism and democratic freedoms.
B)It was an all-compassing, authoritarian dictatorship that subordinated individual needs, and employed police power and mass propaganda to achieve total control.
C)It limited its authoritarian dictates to the political and economic aspects of the state's affairs, in an effort to have freer social and cultural choices serve as means of placating the masses.
D)It wanted the masses to keep quiet and not obstruct state policy.
E)It depended upon the appeasement policies of the Eastern democracies.

Answer 3

It was an all-compassing, authoritarian dictatorship that subordinated individual needs, and employed police power and mass propaganda to achieve total control.

Question 4

The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923

A)brought Mussolini to power.
B)was an attempt to seize power in the independent nation of Southern Bavaria.
C)brought Hitler to power in Germany.
D)was quickly crushed.
E)led to the German government exiling Hitler back to his native Austria.

Question 5

Which of the following was not true about Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy?

A)It gave him total control over all aspects of Italian life.
B)It never achieved the totality of power, in repression and media control that the dictatorships in Germany and the Soviet Union did.
C)It tried to involve all Italian youth in a program of indoctrination, but achieved only limited success in that area.
D)It maintained a program of traditional values in regard to women, and mutual acceptance and coexistence with the Catholic Church.
E)It was strongly supported by business and large landlord groups.

Question 6

Although Hitler succeeded in taking control of Germany's educational system, he failed to intimidate the Catholic and Protestant churches.

Question 7

War in China spread after Chinese and Japanese forces clashed at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing in 1937.

Question 8

Mussolini became prime minister of Italy

A)when King Victor Emmanuel, reacting to Fascist intimidation, appointed him.
B)because the Fascio di Combattimento won a majority of seats in the parliamentary election.
C)after groups of squadristi destroyed the socialist opposition to Fascist rule.
D)when he mounted a violent coup d'etat and seized control of the government.
E)when he made an alliance with the pope and the Bolshevik government of Russia.

Question 9

About 40 percent of Europe's Gypsy population was murdered in the death camps. ​

Question 10

History's greatest naval invasion occurred on June 6, 1944, when the Allies landed in Normandy.

Question 11

All of the following brought Hitler support in Germany except

A)the economic problems created by the Great Depression.
B)support of the conservative economic elite which saw him as a bulwark against communism.
C)his promise to uphold the Versailles Treaty in spite of its unpopularity.
D)his aim to restore Germany's power among the nations of Europe.
E)his threat to tear up the Versailles Treaty.

Question 12

Because of its military-dominated dictatorship, the Great Depression had less impact on Japan than in the democratic states of Great Britain and the United States.

Question 13

At the Yalta Conference, in February 1945, Franklin Roosevelt informed the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin that the United States had exploded an atomic bomb.

Question 14

The SA, or Storm Troops, were

A)the Nazi party militia.
B)the major threat to the security of the Nazi Party before 1923.
C)the first type of Kolkhoz.
D)led by Hermann Goering.
E)Mussolini's Black Shirts.

Question 15

The Stalinist era in Soviet Russia saw a large increased in education.​

Question 16

In 1920-21, under Mussolini, armed bands of fascists called Brownshirts ​began to attack newspapers and Social Democrats.

Question 17

Which political leader told military leaders in 1933 that he wanted to remove the "cancer of democracy" from their society?

A)Benito Mussolini
B)Mao Zedong
C)Francisco Franco
D)Adolf Hitler
E)General Franco

Question 18

By 1939, only two major states in Europe, France and Great Britain, remained democratic.

Question 19

Hitler wrote Mein Kampf

A)during World War I.
B)before the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.
C)while in jail after the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
D)during the early years of the Great Depression.
E)after becoming Chancellor in 1933.

Question 20

The earliest originator of the concept and practice of fascism was

A)Adolph Hitler.
B)General Francisco Franco.
C)Juan Peron.
D)Benito Mussolini.
E)Otto von Bismarck.

Question 21

The purpose of the SS was to

A)augment the duties of the SA.
B)use terror to enforce the policies of the Nazi party.
C)debilitate the development of Aryan supremacy.
D)motivate industrial workers to become more productive.
E)harass the French border guards in the Rhineland.

Question 22

Stalin's first two five-year plans

A)moved sixty million people from European to Asian Russia.
B)transformed Russia into an agricultural country.
C)emphasized the production of consumer goods.
D)resulted in large increases in the nation's heavy industry and oil production.
E)reduced the number of industrial cities in the Urals and Siberia.

Question 23

To whip up popular support for his totalitarian regime, Hitler organized gigantic mass rallies in the 1930's in the city of

A)Berlin.
B)Nuremberg.
C)Cologne.
D)Vienna.
E)Munich.

Question 24

The Holocaust included all of the following except

A)an attempt to increase the efficiency of the Einsatzgruppen units by moving mass murder activities to fixed, "death camp" locations.
B)consuming approximately 90 percent of central and eastern Europe's Jewish population.
C)the elimination of Gypsies and many others from groups deemed undesirable by the Nazis.
D)the murder of millions of forced laborers who died of starvation, overwork, or shooting.
E)the establishment of execution camps in France.

Question 25

Japan's decision to seize much of Southeast Asia was based primarily on

A)its contempt for China.
B)a need to satisfy rampant nationalism.
C)providing bases for Pacific dominance.
D)the need to secure vital natural resources.
E)Tojo's meglamania.

Question 26

Major German initiatives in moving toward control of Europe before 1939 included all of the following except the

A)occupation of the Rhineland in 1935.
B)German seizure of Libya in 1935.
C)two-stage takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939.
D)union with Austria.
E)formation of the Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact.

Question 27

World War 2 in the Far East ended with

A)Hitler's suicide.
B)D-Day on June 6, 1944.
C)the capture of Singapore by the British navy.
D)the island-hopping strategy taking Hokaiddo
E)the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Question 28

The Aryan racial state

A)was destined, in Nazi plans, to control Western Europe and Africa.
B)needed only the passive tolerance of the German population in order to be established.
C)required the active involvement of the entire German population to achieve its destiny.
D)disliked mass demonstration unless the emotionalism was minimized.
E)would make all women warrior-soldiers, thus doubling Aryan military strength.

Question 29

The events that allowed Hitler to gain dictatorial powers by "legal" means were

A)his Dachau speech and the two subsequent assassination attempts by the SPD in 1932.
B)the death of President Hindenburg and Hitler's speech at Hindenburg's funeral.
C)the Reichstag fire, Mussolini's "Caesar" speech, and Rommel's endorsement.
D)the crushing of the Kiel Mutiny by the SS.
E)the passage of the Enabling Act by the Reichstag.

Question 30

Hitler intended to gain more land for Germany in

A)France.
B)Russia.
C)Africa.
D)the British Empire.
E)the Middle East.

Question 31

The concept of a new "Monroe Doctrine for Asia" meant that

A)the United States would protect Asia from European exploitation.
B)Japan would play the role of guiding Asia to prosperity and development.
C)the Soviet Union would become the Chinese protector against Japanese aggression.
D)Japanese diplomatic and military relationships with the other nations of Asia would be reduced.
E)the British navy would protect East Asian waters.

Question 32

In Japan, after 1929,

A)the Great Depression increased both exports and wages.
B)a policy of political and diplomatic conciliation with China was followed.
C)right-wing extremists began to terrorize and at times murder opponents.
D)a formal treaty of non-aggression was made with the United States.
E)Prime Minister Tojo forced the emperor to declare war on Germany.

Question 33

After Hitler occupied most of France, the remainder of the country became

A)Free France under Charles de Gaulle.
B)Vichy France under Marshal Henri Petain.
C)Communist France under Pierre Mendez-France.
D)Republican France under Georges Clemenceau.
E)prosperous.

Question 34

The Blitzkrieg was

A)a steady, methodical armed attack that was aimed at achieving an eventual weakening of an enemy and, finally, surrender.
B)a coordinated sudden attack by land and air forces.
C)never able to achieve its specific military objectives.
D)a series of naval attacks that were aimed at blockading enemy ports.
E)the use of massed artillery fire and poison gas against enemy fortifications.

Question 35

At the Munich Conference of 1938,

A)the British and the French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland.
B)the British prime minister refused to agree to the demands of Adolf Hitler.
C)the policy of appeasement successfully put a stop to German expansion in Europe.
D)eventual Nazi control of all of Czechoslovakia was avoided.
E)Winston Churchill gave his support to the policy of appeasement.

Question 36

The Nuremberg Laws established the

A)process of collectivization.
B)ethnic racial homogeneity of Nazi Germany by expelling all Asians.
C)institutionalization of an annual kristallnacht celebration at the end of June.
D)the legal isolation of German Jews from citizenship and legal rights.
E)Nazi renunciation of all anti-Semitic policies in Germany.

Question 37

Which of the following acts by Hitler did not constitute a violation of the Versailles Treaty?

A)the abolition of political parties
B)the creation of a new German air force
C)the introduction of a military draft that would expand Germany's army to 550,000 troops
D)the German remilitarization of the Rhineland
E)German rearmament

Question 38

On the Eastern Front,

A)at Stalingrad, Germany lost an army of 300,000.
B)in Siberia, Japanese troops never penetrated more than 500 miles inland from their base in the Pacific port of Vladivostok.
C)German troops continued to push east of the Ural Mountains in early 1944.
D)Indian Gurkha troops played a major role in the battles of Moscow and Stalingrad.
E)over ninety percent of Moscow was flattened during the German bombing raids of late 1944.

Question 39

The naval battle that established United States naval superiority in the Pacific was the Battle of

A)Midway.
B)the Coral Sea.
C)Shimonosecki Strait.
D)Malacca.
E)New Caledonia.

Question 40

Which of the following was not part of Japanese expectations and war strategy?

A)formal alliance with Germany
B)total destruction of the United States Pacific Fleet
C)American acquiescence to Japanese Pacific hegemony
D)the American public's support for Franklin Roosevelt's policy of war on Japan
E)the self-indulgent American propensity to avoid going to war

Question 41

The greatest tank battle during WW 2 was the Battle of ​

A)Stalingrad​
B)​El-Alamein
C)​Kursk
D)​Rome
E)​the Bulge

Question 42

What was meant by the "phony war?"​

A)​The claim of right to invade Poland by Germany
B)​Japan's focus on Southeast Asia
C)​Italian occupation of Egypt
D)​lack of active tactics during the winter of 1939-40.
E)​German claims of outrage at violation of the Munich Accords

Question 43

Why was Hitler delayed in his invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941?​

A)​He was preoccupied with negotiating a tripartite Axis agreement with Japan.
B)​He waited to see if the United States was going to enter the war.
C)​He was required to assist Mussolini in his botched invasion of Greece.
D)​He met with unexpected resistance in Vichy France.
E)​He sought to position German forces in Iran and engage the USSR from the West and South.

Question 44

The Cold War

A)was a major factor in world affairs for several decades after World War II.
B)resulted from the significant differences between Germany and the Soviet Union.
C)was the result of the agreements reached at the Allied war conferences that took place in 1939 and 1940, early in the war.
D)began during the battle of Stalingrad.
E)only began with the onset of the Korean War in 1950.

Question 45

Which of the following was NOT a tactic taken by the Nazi Party to ensure control of all institutions?​

A)​purging the civil service of Jewish and democratic elements.
B)​establishing concentration camps for opponents of the party.
C)​dissolving all trade unions
D)​suspending the German Reichstag
E)​abolishing all political parties except the Nazi.

Question 46

Among the major results of World War 2 was

A)the beginning of a major and world-wide decolonization movement.
B)the restoration of European world hegemony.
C)the restoration of a multi-power world.
D)the permanent partition of Germany.
E)that Japan was forced to join NATO.

Question 47

Stalin's desire for sole control of the decision making​ led to his first purges of

A)​Old Bolsheviks
B)​peasants
C)​Stakhanovites
D)​Rightist party members
E)​non-Communist doctors

Question 48

All of the following were artistic works of Nazi propaganda EXCEPT​

A)​Ernest Junger's The Storm of Steel
B)​landscapes and still life portraits as preferred by Hitler.
C)​Richard Wagner's music
D)​Jurgen Habermas' Towards Reconstructing Historical Materialism
E)​Leni Riefenstahl's ​Triumph of the Will

Question 49

All of the following were targets in Japan's military expansion in 1941 EXCEPT

A)Hawaii
B)​Philippines
C)​Malaya
D)​Dutch East Indies
E)​Australia

Question 50

Fascist propaganda for women in Italy that argued for: ​

A)​equality within the workplace to build a stronger state.
B)​a woman's duty was to be homemakers and raise children.
C)​women to become indoctrinated in fascism instead of the folly of religion.
D)​civil service requirements for everyone according to skills, including women and children.
E)​None of these.

Question 51

The increasingly anti-Semitic phase that moved towards violence in Germany was started with​

A)​the Nuremberg Laws
B)​the Mischling Laws
C)​Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
D)​partitioning of Poland
E)​implementing the blueprints of the Wannsee Convention

Question 52

In the attempt to avoid a two-front war, in 1939, Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with Stalin limited to​

A)​the Baltics
B)​Scandanavia
C)​Poland
D)​Romania
E)​Bulgaria

Question 53

Mussolini and Hitler joined forces in support of ​

A)​Hitler's occupation of Ethiopia
B)​Japan's invasion of Nanking
C)​Franco's fascist army in the Spanish Civil War
D)​annexing Poland
E)​occupying Belgium.

Question 54

At the meeting of the Big Three at Tehran

A)it was agreed to use the atomic bomb against Japan.
B)Churchill strongly advocated an American-only invasion of France.
C)the Allies decided to partition postwar Germany.
D)Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to let Stalin take control of Eastern Europe.
E)the Soviet Union agreed to declare war against fascist Spain.

Question 55

All of the following were true about conventional aerial bombing during World War 2 except

A)it did not appear to weaken the will of the people to continue to fight the enemy.
B)German military production increased, in spite of the Allied bombing.
C)huge firestorms developed from the massive Allied aerial attacks, killing approximately 100,000 people in Dresden in February 1945.
D)Britain was the only belligerent nation whose citizens were not exposed to significant bomb attacks.
E)some Allied leaders criticized the terror bombing of German cities.

Question 56

At the Yalta Conference,

A)De Gaulle demanded equal industrial reparation payments for all victor nations.
B)Stalin agreed to "free elections" in Eastern Europe.
C)Truman received word of the successful testing of an atomic bomb.
D)Churchill made his "Iron Curtain" speech.
E)the Truman Doctrine was issued.

Question 57

The 250,000 collectivized farms were known as ​

A)​kulak
B)​kitchen plots
C)​khoziaka
D)​kolkhozes
E)​kartoshka

Question 58

In forming the Nazi party, Adolf Hitler​

A)​argued for violent political revolution to implement Communism.
B)​lobbied a grassroots movement through the German Reichstag
C)​consciously emulated the tactics employed by Mussolini.
D)​tried to overthrow the government in Berlin.
E)​ran for president of the Weimar Republic.

Question 59

Aerial bombing of wartime Japan

A)occurred only during the last month of the war.
B)had virtually no effect on Japanese industrial facilities.
C)included the first use of an atomic bomb.
D)produced very little destruction of Japanese housing.
E)spared Tokyo entirely.

Question 60

By the end of 1926, Mussolini ruled Italy with this title​:

A)​der Furher
B)​Il Duce
C)​El Jefe
D)​Beloved Leader
E)​Citoyen

Question 61

Identify the following terms.
Adolf Hitler and Mein Kampf

Question 62

Identify the following terms.
Hitler Jugend

Question 63

Identify the following terms.
SA/Sturmabteilung

Question 64

Identify the following terms.
National Socialist German Workers' Party/Nazis

Question 65

Identify the following terms.
the Enabling Act

Question 66

Identify the following terms.
SS/Schutzstaffel

Question 67

Identify the following terms.
Old Bolsheviks and the purges

Question 68

Identify the following terms.
collectivization of agriculture/the kolkhoz

Question 69

Identify the following terms.
Beer Hall Putsch

Question 70

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the Rhineland and Ethiopia

Question 71

Identify the following terms.
Austrian annexation

Question 72

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Nuremberg rallies and Nuremberg laws

Question 73

Identify the following terms.
the Aryan racial state

Question 74

Identify the following terms.
"totalitarian state"

Question 75

Identify the following terms.
five-year plans

Question 76

Identify the following terms.
the Sudetenland

Question 77

Identify the following terms.
Benito Mussolini's Fascio di Combattimento

Question 78

Identify the following terms.
Kristallnacht

Question 79

Identify the following terms.
"Asia for the Asians"

Question 80

Identify the following terms.
Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact