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WorksheetsAP Euro WWII and Cold War
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 5hrs 30mins
Before World War II, what territorial grabs were made by the Nazis and Fascists under appeasement?
The Nazis conquered Ethiopia and Albania while the Fascists conquered Spain, the Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia
The Nazis conquered the Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia while the Fascists conquered Spain, Ethiopia and Albania
Which leader does NOT match the country before WWII?
Adolf Hitler-Nazi Germany
Josef V. Stalin-USSR
Franklin D. Roosevelt-United States
Neville Chamberlain-United Kingdom
Francisco Franco-Fascist Italy
Before the invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939, there was a secret agreement signed between the Soviets and the Nazis that divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. What was the name of the pact, and what countries fell into the Soviet sphere?
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Western Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, Eastern Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Romania
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Eastern Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Romania
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, Western Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria
There was no Pact between the Nazis and the Soviets
What was the tactic used by the Nazis to quickly conquer its enemies?
Blitzkrieg
Wehrmacht
Luftwaffe
Schutzstaffel
What was the operation that planned an invasion of the British Isles?
Operation Torch
Operation Neptune
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Valkryie
What were the major battles on the Soviet front, and why were the Soviets so successful?
Dunkirk, Normandy and Paris and they were successful because they threw their baguettes
Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad and the Soviets were successful because their tanks and guns were made to work in the harsh winters, and all the fresh soldiers came from the cold training fields in Siberia, not to mention cities like Magnitogorsk produced the steel necessary for the tanks.
Following the end of World War II, where did the term "Cold War" come from?
George Orwell
The fact that neither the Soviet Leaders or the American Presidents never fired directly on each other
It was coined by Heinrich Himmler mocking the USSR during the standoff between the Greater German Reich and the USSR
The sun never came out
Name the Cold War Soviet Leaders and their most famous Cold War achievement
Winston Churchill-"Iron Curtain", Charles de Gaulle-French Nuclear Program, Harry Truman-Truman Doctrine
Josef Stalin-Berlin Blockade, Georgy Malenkov-being forced to resign from position, Nikita Khrushchev-Berlin Wall, Leonid Brezhnev-Detente, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko-Dying too early and Mikhail Gorbachev-Fall of the USSR
What two policies by Gorbachev evidently led to the demise of the Soviet Empire
Detente and Stagnation
Glasnost and Perestroika
Destalinization and Decolonization
Why did Decolonization take place in the Cold War and not following the end of either World War I or World War II?
The African and Asian nations under colonial rule saw the chance to declare independence while the major European powers worried about the Soviet Union
The nations under colonial rule were treated so well they never broke away
What racial group does NOT match its appropriate oppressor?
Jews: Nazi Germany
Cowardly Soldiers and Dissidents: USSR
African-Americans: American Deep South and the Ku Klux Klan
Roma/Gypsies: Francoist Spain
What was the treaty that signed Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Hideki Tojo into the Axis Powers (which almost included Josef Stalin)?
Axis Treaty
Tripartite Treaty
Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis Treaty
Moscow-Berlin Axis Treaty
Winston Churchill's famous phrase, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent", was his way of saying what?
Democracy and Capitalism dominated Western Europe
Communism leaked out into the United States
Communism took hold of Eastern Europe after backstabbing all of its promises
Democracy destroyed the USSR
BONUS #1: What was the name of the operation Winston Churchill wanted to use in order to get rid of the Soviets?
Operation Kremlin
Operation Red Square
Operation Impossible
Operation Unthinkable
Operation Red Dawn
BONUS #2: What were some major American events that changed the perspective of the Cold War?
Hungarian Revolt of '56, Prague Spring of '68, August Coup of '91
Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Red Dawn
Joseph McCarthy, Korean War, Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, Space Race
BONUS #3: What is the name of the Alternate history show which the plot of the 2nd season is a company named RittenHouse is trying to destroy America by going back in time and changing history?
Timeless
NCIS
Criminal Minds
Bull
BONUS #4: Pick the two Soviet dissidents out of this list of Soviet people.
Yuri Andropov
Gennady Yanayev
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Boris Yeltsin
Pavel Litinov
BONUS #5: What was the official name of the Soviet Union, and what day did it finally collapse
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, November 7, 1917
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, April 26, 1986
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, December 25, 1991
United Soviet Socialist States of America, April 14, 2018
