WWII Review quiz

The diplomatic policy of "appeasement"-

•  Takes into account the ethnic diversity of an allied country or territory.

• Makes political and material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.

• Is used only between communist nations.

• Has not been used by a world power since 1820.

On August 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact. This meant that

• They would be allies fighting together on the same side when the war broke out.

• Great Britain and the United States were automatically allies with each other.

• Both countries scaled back their military forces

• They agreed to take no military action against each other for the next ten years.

What was Kristallnacht? 

•  An anti-Semitic pogrom that took place on the night of November 9 and 10, 1938.

• The event considered to be the "start" of the Holocaust.

• The "Night of Broken Glass."

• All of the following

What was the Final Solution?     

• The plan made by the United States and the Soviet Union for dividing up Europe after WWII.

• Nazi Germany's own term for the genocide they implemented against Europe's Jewish people.

• America's own term for their use of the atom bomb against Japan.

• The first influenza vaccine, invented by Marie Curie and considered the "final" vaccine the human species would ever need.

The most appropriate title for the below map is

• World War II in the Pacific

• U.S. Navy bases, 1941.

• War in Europe

• Germany's Overseas Territories, 1945

The Japanese Imperial Army under the military leadership of Hideki Tojo invaded

• Pearl Harbor

• Manchuria

• The Galapagos Island

• South Australia

What was the Lend-Lease Act?  

• The agreement between the US and its allies, to lend weapons in return for leases on military bases.

• A policy the United States began during the Spanish-American War.

• None of the following

• A and B

What event led to the start of WWII?

• Hitler's Appeasement

• Germany Invasion of Poland

• Germanys invasion of Czechoslovakia

• The German final solution

All of the following are related to the Battle of Britain EXCEPT

• The Luftwaffe

• Radar

• Enigma

• All of the above are part of the Battle of Britain.

All of the following are related to Operation Barbarossa EXCEPT

• Moscow

• Scorched Earth Policy

• Leningrad

• all of the above are related to Operation Barbarossa