Unit 8: World War 2 Multiple Choice Exam

The Rape of Nanking was

• an attack in the old city of Nanking where one thousand soldiers were killed.
• an attack on China by the Soviet Union where families were forced to give up their farms to the government.
• an attack on the Chinese city of Nanking with an atomic bomb.
• an attack on China by Japan where innocent men, women, children, and elderly were murdered, raped, captured and tortured.

Why did Hitler make a non-aggression pact with Stalin at the start of World War II?

• To prevent the League of Nations from acting to stop the war.
• To show that Hitler had changed his views on communism.
• To allow Germany to invade Poland without Soviet opposition.
• To insure that Germany had direct access to the Baltic Sea.

What does the word Appeasement mean in regards to WW2?

• Britain and France's policy of allowing Hitler to conquer territories in return for stopping further conquest
• The Agreement between Soviet Russia and Germany to split Poland
• The Policy of herding the Jews into ghettos and then eventually into concentration camps
• Laws enacted by the United States to give supplies to the allies

The British Prime Minister who opposed the policy of appeasement and rallied Britain to fight against Nazi aggression was

• Neville Chamberlain
• Charles de Gaulle
• Winston Churchill
• Joseph Stalin

Victims of the Holocaust included all of the following EXCEPT ______.

• Gypsies
• The mentally ill
• homosexuals
• Jews
• Members of the Aryan Race

What event finally got he USA into WW2 officially?

• German Invasion of Poland
• The bombing of Pearl Harbor
• The bombing of Britain
• Japanese invasion of China

In the interest of public safety after the start of WW2, tens of thousands of Japanese Americans were _______.

• sent to internment camps
• drafted into the military
• given important factory jobs
• invited to run for public office

What country was NOT taken over and occupied by Nazi Germany?

• France
• Britain
• Poland
• Austria

In reacting to atrocities such as the massacre of Jews in Europe and Italy’s attack on Ethiopia, the United States decided to stand by and not become involved. What policies was the United States following?

• Non-Intervention/Isolationism
• Fratricide/Nationalism
• Appeasement/Genocide
• Militarism/Homicide

One major purpose of the Yalta Conference in 1945 was to decide

• Which countries to include in the United Nations.
• When to open the second front against Germany.
• How to rebuild Europe after the war.
• Where to launch the final invasion of Japan