Fourth Six Weeks Common Assessment Review

"The Governments of . . . have decided to stand by and co-operate with one another in their efforts in Greater East Asia and the regions of Europe respectively wherein it is their prime purpose to establish and maintain a new order of things. . . . They further undertake to assist one another with all political, economic and military means if one of the Contracting Powers is attacked by a Power at present not involved in the European War or in the Japanese-Chinese conflict."

What nations belong in the blank space in the above pact?

• Germany and the Soviet Union

• Germany, Italy, and Japan

• Britain, France, and Germany

• The Soviet Union and China

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last."

This quotation most accurately reflects ...

• Winston's Churchill's response to the Munich Pact.

• Joseph Stalin's response to the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

• Franklin Roosevelt's response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

• Benito Mussolini's response to the Spanish Civil War.

Two of the three Allied leaders shown in this photograph had earlier cooperated by signing the ...

• Lend-Lease Act.

• Munich Pact.

• Atlantic Charter.

• Potsdam Declaration.

This cartoon depicts the situation in Europe ...

• before the Battle of Stalingrad.

• when the United States joined the Allies.

• after D-Day.

• during the blitzkrieg.

When they met at Yalta, the Big Three disagreed about ...

• where and when to open a second front in Europe.

• what the political future of Eastern Europe would be.

• whether Germany or Japan posed the greatest threat.

• whether to use the atomic bomb against Japan.

This image depicts the results of ...

• round-the-clock Allied bombing of Germany.

• a kamikaze attack.

• Operation Barbarossa.

• the Manhattan Project.

From Hitler's point of view, what was the chief impact of the Nazi-Soviet Pact?

• It gave him full possession of the Sudetenland.

• It allowed him to invade Poland without Soviet interference.

• It formed a military alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union.

• It allowed him to send troops into the Soviet Union.

What was one reason Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931?

• Western imperial powers in China were threatening to invade Japan.

• Japanese militarists hoped to build an empire to rival Western colonial empires.

• Japan wanted to avenge its defeat by China in the First Sino-Japanese War.

• The Axis powers had agreed to divide up most of Europe and Asia.

What conclusion is best supported by this chart?

• Axis aggression was unstoppable by 1937.

• Britain and Germany were not concerned about Nazi aggression.

• The League of Nations could have ended Axis aggression if it had taken stronger action.

• The policy of appeasement did not succeed in achieving its goals.

Which of the following is an example of wartime cooperation between Hitler and Mussolini?

• the Battle of the Bulge

• Operation Barbarossa

• the conquest of France

• the invasion of Sicily