World War II and Interwar Period Quiz

What happened at Dunkirk in the spring of 1940?

• The Germans launched their invasion of Britain.

• France signed German surrender documents.

• British forces successfully retreated across the English Channel. So the British still had an army .

• The British waited for Germans to attack in the “Phony War.”

What was usually the first stage of Hitler's blitzkrieg strategy?

• The Luftwaffe attacked ground targets from the air.

• Fast-moving ground troops quickly overwhelmed the enemy.

• Cities were shelled by modern battleships.

• Fast-moving tanks quickly rolled across enemy territory.

What was important about the Battle of the Bulge?

• It delayed the Allied advance from the west.

• It caused the Germans to sue for peace.

• It caused the Allies to withdraw from Belgium.

• It delayed the Soviet advance from the east.

Who were the kamikaze?

• the ruling class in Japanese society

• the pro-war group within Japanese government

• the name of the Japanese carrier group at Midway

• Japanese pilots who crashed into Allied warships

Which of the following could be described as a conservative reaction to the rapid changes in society in the United States after World War I?

• abstract art

• the Scopes trial

• the spread of speakeasies throughout the country

• the Harlem Renaissance

What did the British and French do at the Munich Conference in 1938 to avoid war?

• They persuaded Austria to give in to German occupation.

• They persuaded the Soviet Union to allow Germany to occupy Poland.

• They persuaded Belgium to allow the occupation of Luxembourg.

• They persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland.

A stalemate developed along the Western Front early in the war because:

• The United States immediately joined the war.

• the German army fought with outdated weapons.

• The French army was able to push Germany out.

• Trench warfare made it difficult for either side to win an advantage.

What was the Manhattan Project?

• a code name for the invasion of Guadalcanal

• the Allied plan for the invasion of Europe

• a plan to increase war production in U.S. industry

• a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons in Los Alamos New Mexico

Which of the following was one of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points?

• the division of Russia into East Russia and West Russia

• a statement of American neutrality in World War I

• a call for a large-scale increase in the production of arms

• the right of Eastern Europeans to choose their own form of government

Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union because

• the Soviets had betrayed him by seizing the Baltic states.

• he wanted to protect the Germans living in Russia.

• the Soviets had helped the British at Dunkirk.

• he wanted the Soviet Union’s vast natural resources.