WWII

Base your answer on the legal excerpts below and on your knowledge of social studies.

Article 1

The owner of a Jewish industrial enterprise (Third Regulation under the Reich Citizenship Law of 14 June 1938, RGBI I 627) may be ordered to sell or liquidate the enterprise within a definite time. Certain conditions may be stipulated [specified] in the order....

Article 7

1. Jews cannot legally acquire real estate and mortgages....

These laws indicate a government policy of

• censorship

• extraterritoriality

• discrimination

• laissez-faire

Hitler's actions as expressed by this cartoon led Stalin to

• adopt a policy of appeasement

• take over Germany's industry

• join the Allies in the fight against Germany

• reduce the size of the Soviet army

Which later development would change the relationship shown in this cartoon?

• Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe

• German annexation of the Sudetenland

• Italian expansionism in Ethiopia

• German invasion of the Soviet Union

Which of the following statements represents a similarity between the leaders in this cartoon?

• Both leaders created totalitarian states.

• Both leaders encouraged the spread of communism.

• Both leaders were committed to fascist ideology

• Both leaders worked together throughout their time in power.

The point of view in this cartoon most clearly shows the influence of which of the following?

• changing views of marriage in Hitler's Germany

• an alliance between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini

• an agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union to divide control of Poland

• the spread of communism in Eastern Europe

"The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay [stop] the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason..."

– Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson,

November 21, 1945, Nuremberg

Which statement best describes the results of the trial described in this passage?

• The League of Nations was unable to enforce its decisions.

• High ranking officials were found guilty of crimes against humanity

• A limit was placed on the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

• Germany was forced to pay reparations.

"The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay [stop] the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason..."

– Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson,

November 21, 1945, Nuremberg

The trial described in this passage was most directly a response to which of the following?

• the Holocaust

• dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• genocide in Rwanda

• Armenian massacre

"...The German people were never more pitiable than when they stood by and watched this thing done. For the raiders who were let loose on the streets and given a day to sate [indulge] the lowest instincts of cruelty and revenge were indeed an enemy army. No foreign invader could have done more harm. This is Germany in the hour of her greatest defeat, the best overcome by the worst. While many protested at the outrages, and millions must have been sickened and shamed by the crimes committed in their name, many others looked on stolidly or approvingly while the hunters hunted and the wreckers worked. There are stories of mothers who took their children to see the fun ...."

- New York Times, November 12,1938

The events described in this passage most clearly show the influence of which of the following?

• fall of the Berlin wall

• German reparation payments after World War I

• the rise of Adolf Hitler

• Soviet takeover of East Germany

"...The German people were never more pitiable than when they stood by and watched this thing done. For the raiders who were let loose on the streets and given a day to sate [indulge] the lowest instincts of cruelty and revenge were indeed an enemy army. No foreign invader could have done more harm. This is Germany in the hour of her greatest defeat, the best overcome by the worst. While many protested at the outrages, and millions must have been sickened and shamed by the crimes committed in their name, many others looked on stolidly or approvingly while the hunters hunted and the wreckers worked. There are stories of mothers who took their children to see the fun ...."

- New York Times, November 12,1938

Who were the targets of the "hunters" described in this passage?

• suspected communists

• Czechoslovakian citizens

• foreign troops occupying Germany

• German Jews

Which of these World War II events happened first?

• Battle of Britain

• D-Day invasion

• invasion of Poland

• dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima