WWII and Cold War Study Guide

Which of the following contains Hitler's plans for Germany?

• Mein Kampf

• Das Kapitol

• Aryan Manifesto

• Wealth of Nations

Hitler and Stalin were similar in what way?

• Both were against business ownership and created collective farms.

• Both abolished private property ownership and persecuted religious leaders.

• Both used propaganda and sent people to prison camps during World War II.

• Both were fascists and fought together in World War II against the United States.

Censorship, government control of industry, and religious persecution best summarizes the practice of who?

• Joseph Stalin

• Churchill

• Roosevelt

• Tojo

Which of the following was an action taken by Adolf Hitler and Stalin to control their countries?

• Organizing a multinational police force

• Banning and eliminating opposition political parties

• Formalizing a non-aggression treaty with the Soviet Union

• Withdrawing government funding from Rhineland industrial areas

Which of the following met Hitler's demands and failed to prevent World War II?

• Yalta Conference

• Washington Conference

• Moscow Conference

• Munich Conference

Soviet Premier Josef Stalin's plan for agricultural collectivization led to —

• significant increases in farm production.

• social upheaval and his removal from office.

• severe famine and the deaths of Russian peasants.

• mass immigration to the United States

How did Harry Truman help end World War II?

• He insisted that Germany pay reparations.

• He advised Roosevelt to invade Japan

• He used the Atomic Bomb on Japan

• He fired the United State's top generals

The United States entered WWII after what event?

• Battle of Stalingrad

• D-Day

• Pearl Harbor

• Zimmerman Telegram

Which agreement prompted Germany to invade western Poland in 1939?

• A neutrality treaty with Switzerland?

• A military alliance with Japan

• A nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union

• A lend lease agreement with the U.S.

How did the beginning of the D-Day campaign impact World War II?

• It led to the immediate surrender of Japan

• It put Germany on the defensive against a new Allied front.

• It liberated Great Britain from Nazi control

• It forced Russia to retreat from its western invasion.