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Unit 5 Test Review

Total questions: 55

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The introduction of credit allowed people to do what?

a)

Buy things now to never pay off

b)

Buy things now to pay off later

c)

Sell things

d)

Nothing

2.

Why was Germany's economy destroyed after World War One?

a)

Lost industrial territory to France

b)

Had to make damage payments to the Allies

c)

All of the above

d)

None are correct

3.

What is overproduction?

a)

When factories produce more goods than being sold

b)

When factories produce less goods than being sold

c)

When factories produce just enough goods than being sold

d)

Nothing

4.

What was the longest, most severe economic downturn?

a)

The Great Happiness

b)

The Great Economy

c)

The Great Depression

d)

The Great Sadness

5.

What was the Dust Bowl?

a)

Storms destroyed crops, land, and equipment

b)

Many farmers migrated to cities on the West Coast

c)

Farmers lost their land

d)

All of the above

6.

True or False. Because of the Great Depression, many people lost faith in elected governments being able to stop modern problems.

a)

False

b)

True

c)

Read

7.

Who was Benito Mussolini?

a)

Organized WWI veterans and other angry Italians into the Fascist party

b)

Strong and convincing speaker

c)

Dictator of Italy

d)

All of the above

8.

What is a one-party dictatorship that controls every aspect of the lives of its citizens?

a)

Democracy

b)

Totalitarian state

c)

President

d)

Monarchy

9.

What is any overly powerful government that isn’t communist whose policies glorify the government over the individual and are harmful to basic human rights?

a)

Fascism

b)

Democracy

c)

President

d)

Communism

10.

True or False. Fascism is rooted in extreme nationalism, pursuing aggressive foreign expansion, and anti-democratic are the 3 fascism features.

a)

False

b)

True

c)

Read

11.

What is the appeal of fascism?

a)

Violence

b)

Promised a weak government and political fighting continuing 

c)

Promised a strong, stable government and end to political fighting

12.

Fascism and communism both encouraged what?

a)

Blind devotion to a leader 

b)

Ignoring a leader

c)

Nothing

d)

Killing the leader

13.

Hitler became leader of what party?

a)

Communist Party

b)

National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi)

c)

Democracy Party

d)

Petty Veterans Party

14.

What did Hitler write about in Mein Kampf?

a)

Blamed Jews for Germany's defeat in WWII

b)

Jews were a separate race and German's a better race

c)

All of the above

d)

None of the above

15.

Did Hitler and Mussolini get power legally or illegally?

a)

Illegally

b)

Legally

c)

They didn't get power

16.

What did the Nuremburg Laws do?

a)

Took away German citizenship from Jews

b)

Took away German citizenship from Germans

c)

Gave German citizenship to Jews

17.

What was Kristallnacht?

a)

Nothing

b)

When Nazi mobs smashed the windows of Jewish homes and businesses

c)

When Jewish mobs the windows of Nazi homes and businesses

18.

True or False. A command economy is where government officials make all basic economic decisions.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Read

19.

What are collectives in the Soviet Union?

a)

Large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group

b)

Large farms owned and operated by peasants by themselves

c)

Large farms owned and operated by the rich as a group

20.

What would become a major problem for the Soviet Union?

a)

War

b)

Violence

c)

Nothing. They were all good

d)

Feeding the population

21.

How did Stalin use terror as a weapon against his own people?

a)

Violated his people's individual rights

b)

Critics sent to gulags

c)

All of the above

d)

None are correct

22.

What was the Great Purge?

a)

No laws for 24 hours

b)

Stalin eliminating any opposition to his rule

c)

A big party

23.

True or False. Mao Zedong led the Chinese communists.

a)

False

b)

Read

c)

True

24.

What did Japan invade in 1931?

a)

Soviet Union (Russia)

b)

Manchuria in China

c)

Japan

d)

Germany

25.

Who are the 3 Axis powers in 1940?

a)

U.S., Britain, Soviet Union

b)

Germany, U.S., France

c)

Germany, Japan, and Italy

d)

Italy, China, Korea

26.

True or False. Mussolini was the leader of Japan and Hitler was the leader of the Soviet Union

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Read

27.

Why could the League of Nations do nothing when Italy invaded Ethiopia?

a)

League of Nations had no money

b)

League of Nations had no military authority

c)

League of Nations was too scared of Italy

28.

What is appeasement?

a)

Nothing

b)

Stopping a bully

c)

Fighting a bully

d)

Giving in to the demands of an aggressor (bully)​

29.

What are the reasons for appeasement?

a)

Pacificism, opposition to war, was spreading

b)

Many governments wanted lasting peace

c)

People still reminded of the horrors of World War One

d)

All of the above

30.

What happened at Guernica in 1937?

a)

German air raid on a market town in Spain

b)

Nothing

c)

When Spanish forces executed the town

31.

What was the Munich Pact?

a)

An agreement with Stalin and the Soviet Union

b)

When Hitler convinced Britain and France he wouldn’t expand his empire any more 

c)

Long lasting peace

32.

Who did Hitler sign a non-aggression pact with in 1939?

a)

German

b)

U.S.

c)

France

d)

Soviet Union (Russia)

33.

True or False. Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 and it seen as the start date for World War Two.

a)

False

b)

Read

c)

True

34.

What is blitzkrieg?

a)

Means lightning war. When Germany invaded quickly using air, ground, and tank forces

b)

Slow attack

c)

An attack by naval forces

35.

What was Pearl Harbor and how could it have been worse?

a)

When Germany secretly attacked the U.S. 

b)

When Japan secretly attacked the U.S. in Hawaii in December 1941. Could have been worse if attack didn't take place on a Sunday when a lot of men weren't on the ships.

36.

What mistake did Hitler make that Napoleon also made?

a)

Attacked Russia during the Spring

b)

Attacked Russia during the spring

c)

Attacked Russia during the winter

37.

Who are the 3 Allies in WWII and the countries they led?

a)

Germany: Hitler. Italy: Mussolini. Japan: Tojo

b)

U.S.: FDR. Britain: Churchill. Soviet Union: Stalin

c)

U.S.: FDR. Germany: Hitler. France: Petain

38.

True or False. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the commander of all Allied forces in Europe during World War Two.

a)

False

b)

Read

c)

True

39.

What happened at the Battle of Stalingrad?

a)

When Hitler tried taking the city named after Stalin but got trapped

b)

Germany won the battle and killed Stalin

c)

France attacks Italy

40.

What happened at the Normandy landings?

a)

Allied forces tried invading France but failed

b)

Germany tried taking over Russia

c)

Allied invasion of Africa

d)

Deadly but successful Allied invasion of France in June 1944 called D-Day 

41.

What happened at the Battle of the Bulge?

a)

German forces surprised attacked the Allies

b)

Allies and Germans suffered heavy losses in the bitter cold

c)

Germany after this battle could never attack again

d)

All of the above

42.

Who did Hitler order to defend Germany at all costs?

a)

12 year old boys

b)

60 year old men

c)

All of the above

d)

None are correct

43.

True or False. V-E Day was May 8, 1945.

a)

True

b)

Read

c)

False

44.

How did the Allies win World War II?

a)

By 1942, Germany and its allies were fighting on several fronts at the same time

b)

Hitler underestimated the Soviet Union

c)

By 1944, the U.S. was producing twice as much as all the Axis powers combined

d)

All of the above

45.

What is island hopping?

a)

Invading Japan right away

b)

A campaign with the goal of recapturing some Japanese held islands while skipping others

c)

Hopping on one foot on an island

46.

Each captured island served as a what in the island hopping strategy?

a)

Nothing

b)

Steppingstone to the next objective

c)

Going backwards

47.

What happened at the Battle of Iwo Jima?

a)

Porkchops were cooked

b)

Battle where U.S. Marines fought to build an airbase that left many Marines and Japanese dead

c)

Nothing

48.

What happened at the Battle of Okinawa?

a)

Battle that had some of the worst kamikaze (suicide) plane attacks of the war and high civilian casualties

b)

Nothing

c)

Battle for navy ships

49.

How many people died in World War II and were they mostly civilians or military people?

a)

30-65 million and most were military people

b)

100 million and most were civilians

c)

120 million and most were military people

d)

30-65 million and most were civilians

50.

What was the deadliest conflict in human history?

a)

Revolutionary War

b)

World War One

c)

World War Two

d)

Civil War

51.

True or False. A concentration camp is detention center for those considered enemies of the state.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Read

52.

Who did the Nazis send to concentration camps?

a)

Jews

b)

Homosexuals

c)

Mentally and physically handicapped

d)

All of the above

53.

What was the “Final Solution?”

a)

The extermination, killing, murder of all European Jews

b)

Solution to a math problem

c)

Solution to a quiz question

54.

What was the Manhattan Project?

a)

A project in Manhattan, New York

b)

A project to build a new airplane

c)

A top-secret project where Allied scientists worked on developing a powerful new weapon called the atomic bomb

55.

What two cities did the U.S. drop the atomic bombs on?

a)

Tokyo and Fukushima 

b)

Tokyo and Nagasaki

c)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

d)

Hiroshima and Fukushima