WorksheetsUnit 5 Test Review
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 28mins
The introduction of credit allowed people to do what?
Buy things now to never pay off
Buy things now to pay off later
Sell things
Nothing
Why was Germany's economy destroyed after World War One?
Lost industrial territory to France
Had to make damage payments to the Allies
All of the above
None are correct
What is overproduction?
When factories produce more goods than being sold
When factories produce less goods than being sold
When factories produce just enough goods than being sold
Nothing
What was the longest, most severe economic downturn?
The Great Happiness
The Great Economy
The Great Depression
The Great Sadness
What was the Dust Bowl?
Storms destroyed crops, land, and equipment
Many farmers migrated to cities on the West Coast
Farmers lost their land
All of the above
True or False. Because of the Great Depression, many people lost faith in elected governments being able to stop modern problems.
False
True
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Who was Benito Mussolini?
Organized WWI veterans and other angry Italians into the Fascist party
Strong and convincing speaker
Dictator of Italy
All of the above
What is a one-party dictatorship that controls every aspect of the lives of its citizens?
Democracy
Totalitarian state
President
Monarchy
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?
Fascism
Democracy
President
Communism
True or False. Fascism is rooted in extreme nationalism, pursuing aggressive foreign expansion, and anti-democratic are the 3 fascism features.
False
True
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What is the appeal of fascism?
Violence
Promised a weak government and political fighting continuing
Promised a strong, stable government and end to political fighting
Fascism and communism both encouraged what?
Blind devotion to a leader
Ignoring a leader
Nothing
Killing the leader
Hitler became leader of what party?
Communist Party
National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi)
Democracy Party
Petty Veterans Party
What did Hitler write about in Mein Kampf?
Blamed Jews for Germany's defeat in WWII
Jews were a separate race and German's a better race
All of the above
None of the above
Did Hitler and Mussolini get power legally or illegally?
Illegally
Legally
They didn't get power
What did the Nuremburg Laws do?
Took away German citizenship from Jews
Took away German citizenship from Germans
Gave German citizenship to Jews
What was Kristallnacht?
Nothing
When Nazi mobs smashed the windows of Jewish homes and businesses
When Jewish mobs the windows of Nazi homes and businesses
True or False. A command economy is where government officials make all basic economic decisions.
True
False
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What are collectives in the Soviet Union?
Large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group
Large farms owned and operated by peasants by themselves
Large farms owned and operated by the rich as a group
What would become a major problem for the Soviet Union?
War
Violence
Nothing. They were all good
Feeding the population
How did Stalin use terror as a weapon against his own people?
Violated his people's individual rights
Critics sent to gulags
All of the above
None are correct
What was the Great Purge?
No laws for 24 hours
Stalin eliminating any opposition to his rule
A big party
True or False. Mao Zedong led the Chinese communists.
False
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True
What did Japan invade in 1931?
Soviet Union (Russia)
Manchuria in China
Japan
Germany
Who are the 3 Axis powers in 1940?
U.S., Britain, Soviet Union
Germany, U.S., France
Germany, Japan, and Italy
Italy, China, Korea
True or False. Mussolini was the leader of Japan and Hitler was the leader of the Soviet Union
True
False
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Why could the League of Nations do nothing when Italy invaded Ethiopia?
League of Nations had no money
League of Nations had no military authority
League of Nations was too scared of Italy
What is appeasement?
Nothing
Stopping a bully
Fighting a bully
Giving in to the demands of an aggressor (bully)
What are the reasons for appeasement?
Pacificism, opposition to war, was spreading
Many governments wanted lasting peace
People still reminded of the horrors of World War One
All of the above
What happened at Guernica in 1937?
German air raid on a market town in Spain
Nothing
When Spanish forces executed the town
What was the Munich Pact?
An agreement with Stalin and the Soviet Union
When Hitler convinced Britain and France he wouldn’t expand his empire any more
Long lasting peace
Who did Hitler sign a non-aggression pact with in 1939?
German
U.S.
France
Soviet Union (Russia)
True or False. Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 and it seen as the start date for World War Two.
False
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True
What is blitzkrieg?
Means lightning war. When Germany invaded quickly using air, ground, and tank forces
Slow attack
An attack by naval forces
What was Pearl Harbor and how could it have been worse?
When Germany secretly attacked the U.S.
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.
What mistake did Hitler make that Napoleon also made?
Attacked Russia during the Spring
Attacked Russia during the spring
Attacked Russia during the winter
Who are the 3 Allies in WWII and the countries they led?
Germany: Hitler. Italy: Mussolini. Japan: Tojo
U.S.: FDR. Britain: Churchill. Soviet Union: Stalin
U.S.: FDR. Germany: Hitler. France: Petain
True or False. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the commander of all Allied forces in Europe during World War Two.
False
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True
What happened at the Battle of Stalingrad?
When Hitler tried taking the city named after Stalin but got trapped
Germany won the battle and killed Stalin
France attacks Italy
What happened at the Normandy landings?
Allied forces tried invading France but failed
Germany tried taking over Russia
Allied invasion of Africa
Deadly but successful Allied invasion of France in June 1944 called D-Day
What happened at the Battle of the Bulge?
German forces surprised attacked the Allies
Allies and Germans suffered heavy losses in the bitter cold
Germany after this battle could never attack again
All of the above
Who did Hitler order to defend Germany at all costs?
12 year old boys
60 year old men
All of the above
None are correct
True or False. V-E Day was May 8, 1945.
True
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False
How did the Allies win World War II?
By 1942, Germany and its allies were fighting on several fronts at the same time
Hitler underestimated the Soviet Union
By 1944, the U.S. was producing twice as much as all the Axis powers combined
All of the above
What is island hopping?
Invading Japan right away
A campaign with the goal of recapturing some Japanese held islands while skipping others
Hopping on one foot on an island
Each captured island served as a what in the island hopping strategy?
Nothing
Steppingstone to the next objective
Going backwards
What happened at the Battle of Iwo Jima?
Porkchops were cooked
Battle where U.S. Marines fought to build an airbase that left many Marines and Japanese dead
Nothing
What happened at the Battle of Okinawa?
Battle that had some of the worst kamikaze (suicide) plane attacks of the war and high civilian casualties
Nothing
Battle for navy ships
How many people died in World War II and were they mostly civilians or military people?
30-65 million and most were military people
100 million and most were civilians
120 million and most were military people
30-65 million and most were civilians
What was the deadliest conflict in human history?
Revolutionary War
World War One
World War Two
Civil War
True or False. A concentration camp is detention center for those considered enemies of the state.
True
False
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Who did the Nazis send to concentration camps?
Jews
Homosexuals
Mentally and physically handicapped
All of the above
What was the “Final Solution?”
The extermination, killing, murder of all European Jews
Solution to a math problem
Solution to a quiz question
What was the Manhattan Project?
A project in Manhattan, New York
A project to build a new airplane
A top-secret project where Allied scientists worked on developing a powerful new weapon called the atomic bomb
What two cities did the U.S. drop the atomic bombs on?
Tokyo and Fukushima
Tokyo and Nagasaki
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima and Fukushima
