Module 28: World War 2

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An economic change introduced in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin would include

• (1) establishing free-market reforms
• (2) boycotting Baltic Sea trade routes
• (3) focusing on the production of consumer goods
• (4) collectivizing agriculture

One characteristic of a totalitarian state is that

• (1) minority groups are granted many civil liberties
• (2) several political parties run the economic system
• (3) citizens are encouraged to criticize the government
• (4) the government controls and censors the media

"It took the Big Four just five hours and twenty five minutes here in Munich today to dispel the clouds of war and come to an agreement over the partition of Czechoslovakia. There is to be no European war, after all. There is to be peace, and the price of that peace is, roughly, the ceding by Czechoslovakia of the Sudeten territory to Herr Hitler's Germany. The German Führer gets what he wanted, only he has to wait a little longer for it. Not much longer though — only ten days. . . ." Source: William Shirer, recording of CBS radio report from Prague, September 29, 1938 The policy that France, Britain, and Italy chose to follow at this meeting is known as

• (1) appeasement
• (2) self-determination
• (3) liberation
• (4) pacification

"It took the Big Four just five hours and twenty five minutes here in Munich today to dispel the clouds of war and come to an agreement over the partition of Czechoslovakia. There is to be no European war, after all. There is to be peace, and the price of that peace is, roughly, the ceding by Czechoslovakia of the Sudeten territory to Herr Hitler's Germany. The German Führer gets what he wanted, only he has to wait a little longer for it. Not much longer though — only ten days. . . ." Source: William Shirer, recording of CBS radio report from Prague, September 29, 1938 What was the main reason Czechoslovakia did NOT want to give the Sudetenland to Hitler?

• It contained 3 million German people
• It contained many wild squirrels which the Czechs did not want to give up
• It contained the factories and industrial might of the Czech defenses
• It could be used as a launching pad to attack the United States

The data in this chart illustrates the

• (1) benefits of foreign trade
• (2) successful development of heavy industry
• (3) availability of consumer goods
• (4) effects of inflation on the economy

Which policy is illustrated in this chart?

• (1) pogroms
• (2) five-year plans
• (3) Russification
• (4) nuclear arms

Based on the information in this chart, which situation gave rise to Nazi power in Germany?

• (1) global prosperity and trade
• (2) success of the Weimar Republic
• (3) political and economic instability
• (4) expansion of Germany's colonial empire

Between World War I and World War II, Fascism appealed to many people in Europe because Fascism

• (1) opposed racism and anti-Semitism
• (2) promoted international cooperation
• (3) offered simple solutions to complex problems
• (4) rejected nationalism and militarism

The Treaty of Versailles angered many Germans after World War I because the treaty

• (1) divided Germany into Communist and non-Communist zones
• (2) made Germany restore its emperor
• (3) required all German-speaking Europeans to return to Germany
• (4) forced Germany to pay large war reparations