WWII Exam

Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Communist Russia were similar in that each

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  protected individual rights

• elected their leaders through popular vote

• supported market-based economies

• stablished totalitarian governments

The term appeasement is best defined as

• an attempt to avoid conflict by meeting the demands of an aggressor

• a period of peace and prosperity, resulting in cultural achievement

• a declaration of war between two or more nations

• an agreement removing economic barriers between nations

The Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and Hitler’s rebuilding of the German military in 1935 demonstrate the

• success of defensive alliances

• fear of communist expansion

• support for the Treaty of Versailles

• failure of the League of Nations

Which event is most closely associated with the start of World War II in Europe?

• signing of the Munich Agreement

• invasion of Poland by Nazi forces

• building of the Berlin Wall

• assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

•Japan resigns from the League of Nations, 1933

• Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis formed, 1936

• Japan invades China, 1937

• United States places embargo on scrap iron, steel, and oil exports to Japan, 1941

Which event occurred immediately after this series of developments?

• Manchuria became a Japanese protectorate.

• Pearl Harbor was attacked.

• The Japanese fleet was destroyed.

• The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

Between the late 1800s and the end of World War II, Japan implemented a policy of imperialism mainly because Japan

• admired the economic power of China

• lacked coal, iron, and other important resources

• wanted to unify the governments of East Asia

• feared the expansion of Nazi Germany in the Pacific

“. . . Seventy thousand people were killed instantly, and many more would die — 60,000 by November and another 70,000 by 1950. Most of them would be victims of a new method of killing — radiation. . . .”

-Ronald Takai

The situation described in this passage was the direct result of which World War II event?

• blitz of London

• attack on Pearl Harbor

• D-Day invasion of Normandy

• bombing of Hiroshima

. . . “You should take steps now to cease military resistance. Otherwise, we shall resolutely employ this bomb and all our other superior weapons to promptly and forcefully end the war.” . . .

This paragraph from a 1945 Allied leaflet warned the

• Czechs of a German invasion

• Americans in Hawaii of a Japanese attack

• Koreans of a Russian invasion

• Japanese civilians of a United States attack

One reason Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 was successful is that Poland

• lacked natural barriers

• was located along the North Sea

• lacked natural resources

• was close to the Balkans

Which action illustrates the concept of genocide?

• the British negotiating peace with Adolf Hitler during the 1938 Munich Conference

• Hitler and Stalin signing a nonaggression pact in 1939

• the Nazi armies eliminating the Jews and other groups as part of Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution

• German generals plotting against Adolf Hitler