World War II

In order to avoid losing its foreign sources of rubber, tin, rice, scrap iron, and oil, Japan decided (in 1941) it must

I. seize much of Southeast Asia.

II. Attack U.S. Pacific base in Hawaii and elsewhere.

III. make arrangements with France and the USSR to get oil and steel.

• I only

• II only

• I and II only

• I and III only

• I, II, and III

What effect did World War II have on race relations in America?

• Many Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps

• Discrimination against African Americans came to an end

• German Americans were forced into concentration camps

• Japanese Americans were prohibited from serving in the military

A political system based on extreme national loyalty where the government controls the economy, culture, and all parts of people's lives. Usually the government is controlled by a dictator.

• Nazism
• Fascism
• Rationing
• Holocaust

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A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator

• totalitarianism
• holocaust
• fascism
• rationing

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Prime minister of Japan during World War II that was known for his aggressive expansionism in China 1930s.

• Chiang Kai-Shek

• Emperor Meiji

• Benito Mussolini

• Hideki Tojo

The cartoon from the 1930's suggests that the cartoonist

• did not distinguish among the European belligerents in terms of war aims or forms of government.

• believed that Europe was doomed to communism.

• wished to see Europe destroyed.

• believed that Japan was a greater threat to the United States than Germany was.

• believed that the United States must enter the war to make the world safe for democracy.

The most (in)famous example of appeasement was

• the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

• the German invasion of Poland.

• Russia's seizing of the Baltic states.

• the Munich Conference

• German sending troops into the demilitarized Rhineland.

Blitzkrieg was

• the use of massed artillery fire against fortifications.

• a steady, methodical armed attack that was aimed at achieving an eventual weakening of an enemy and, eventually, surrender.

• a coordinated sudden attack by land and air.

• never able to achieve its specific military objectives.

Which country signed a nonaggression pact with German?

• Russia

• Japan

• Italy

• Poland

On November 9 to November 10, 1938 Nazis in Germany torched Synagogues vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. This event is refered to as

• Anti-Semitism riot
• Nuremburg trials
• Holocaust
• Kristallnacht/Night of the Broken Glass