1. Review: World War II

2. League of Nations was weak b/c
had no president
had no armed forces
had no money
had no organization
Answer: B

3. League of Nations was weak b/c
had no president
had no armed forces
had no money
had no organization
Answer: B

4. The League of Nations did not interfere with Hitler’s conquest b/c
They were afraid of Hitler
They were friends of Hitler
They were distracted by war in Africa
They did not want to start another world war

5. Answer: False True or False:
All countries in Europe successfully adopted democracies After World War
Answer: False

6. Weak Democratic Gov’t in Germany
A. Heftklammer Republic
B. Filzstift Republic
C. Weimer Republic
D. Malkreide Republic
Answer: C

7. How did the Treaty of Versailles punish Germany? Which is INCORRECT
Downsize military
Enslaved Germans
Give up population, resources, colonies
Guilt clause: take blame and cost
Answer: B

8. What was Germany’s solution to hyperinflation, paying for WWI?
A. Print more money
B. Borrow from banks
C. Taking out loans
D. All of the Above
Answer: A

9. Which is NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
A. US Stock market crash
B. World War II
C. Dust Bowl: farms fail, factories close
D. Buying on Margin
Answer: B

10. Alliances?

11. Father of Fascism Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Answer: A 11

12. Fascism in Germany A. Communism B. Nazism C. Democracy Nilhism
Answer: B 12

13. Fascists hate democracy communism socialism all of the above Answer: D13

14. How many political parties are allowed to exist?
no limit 4 2 1
Answer: D 14

15. Gov’t decisions are made
consent of the people
men only
single leader
Congress
Answer: C 15

16. What is used to persuade citizens to obey the laws?
propaganda
violence
secret police
all of the above
Answer: D 16

17. Fascists promoted and believed in racism. Answer: True
True or False
Fascists promoted and believed in racism. Answer: True 17

18. Who controls businesses, political parties, education, music, art?
consent of people
Parliament
government
men only
Answer: C 18

19. Yes or No
Are there opportunities for freedom of expression, rights, individualism? Answer: No 19

20. state-controlled media open elections Answer: D
Which would NOT be an example of a totalitarian method of staying in power.
terror tactics
secret police
state-controlled media
open elections
Answer: D 20

21. Answer: A Il Duce Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler Emperor Hirohito
Dolcho
Answer: A 21

22. Wanted an empire in Africa
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Emperor Hirohito
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Answer: A 22

23. Answer: B Zweites Buch Mein Kampf Steppenwolf Erbarmen
Title of the book Hitler wrote in prison, outlining his beliefs. Means “My Struggle”
Zweites Buch
Mein Kampf
Steppenwolf
Erbarmen
Answer: B

24. “Master Race”
A. Aryans
B. Alsatians
C. Dobrujan
Banat
Answer: A

25. Groups Hitler believed to be inferior or subhuman
Jews
Gypsies
Slavs
All the Above
Answer: D

26. True or False: One of Hitler’s rationale for conquering more land: believed Germany was overcrowded. Needed more living space (lebensraum)
Answer: True

27. Hitler’s elite, back-uniformed unit. Murdered Hitler’s enemies
A. SS
B. RA
C. TAR
SUNY
Answer: A

28. Hitler’s secret police
A. Abwehr
B. Mekur
C. Otlag
Gestapo
Answer: D

29. Title for Hitler A. Herzog B. Der Fuhrer C. Konig D. Valkyrie
Answer: B

30. Hatred for Jews A. Anti - Israeli B. Anti - Judaism C. Anti - nihlism
Anti – semitism
Answer: D

31. Driving force behind decisions, strategies during WWI in Japan
Emperor
Citizens
Military
Wealthy
Answer: C

32. Japan wanted Oil Natural resources Pacific Empire All above Answer: D32

33. state-controlled media open elections Answer: D
Which would NOT be an example of a totalitarian method of staying in power.
terror tactics
secret police
state-controlled media
open elections
Answer: D

34. Term for giving in to aggressor to keep peace.
A. surrender
B. isolationism
C. appeasement
D. bagration
Answer: C

35. United States’ involvement in WWII
Isolationists
Involved since the beginning of the war
Boycotted selling goods
All of the above
Answer: A

36. Event that encouraged US to declare war, enter WWII

37. Name of Hitler’s Empire
First Reich
Second Reich
Third Reich
Fourth Reich
Answer: C

38. Germany signed a Nonaggression Pact with – to avoid a two front war.
Poland
France
Austria
Soviet Union
Answer: D

39. A. wegtreten blitzkrieg stillgestadan D. abretren Answer: B
Rapid advance of planes, tanks, troops, air carriers into enemy territory.
A. wegtreten
blitzkrieg
stillgestadan
D. abretren
Answer: B

40. Battle of Britain: secret weapon
A. Hawker hurricane
B. messerschmidt
C. missiles
Radar
Answer: D

41. C. The Eastern Front and the Mediterranean
Great Britain Strikes Back
b. Great Britain has success against Italy and Hitler must send General Erwin Rommel, later known as the ‘Desert Fox’ to take over command in Northern Africa.

42. C. The Eastern Front and the Mediterranean
The War in the Balkans
While Rommel was in Northern Africa, Hitler was active in the Balkans preparing to attack the Soviet Union.
Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary joined the Axis powers in 1941.
Yugoslavia and Greece, with pro-British governments, resisted but fell in 11 and 17 days respectively.

43. Growing Axis Empire

44. Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s failed invasion of
Soviet Union
Poland
France
Greece
Answer: A

45. True or False: USA sold arms to any country vital to US defense
Answer: TRUE

46. In the Atlantic Charter, FDR and Churchill pledged to encourage
Right for people to choose own gov’t
Freedom of the seas
Right for countries to choose own banking system
All of the Above
Answer: A

47. Battle turned the tables of the war on the Pacific, in favor of the Allies
Battle of Taifun
Battle of Midway
Battle of Bodenplatte
Battle of Bayton
Answer: B

48. U-boats are
torpedos
B. warships
submarines
Landrovers
Answer: C

49. Battle of the Coral Sea: new kind of naval warfare where ships are miles apart
Aircraft carriers hold airplanes which do all the fighting
Japan claimed victory in the battle but for the first time, Japan expansion southward was halted

50. Strategy to win back Pacific islands from Axis Powers
A. Naval landings
B. Carrier action
C. Air assault
D. Island hopping
Answer: D

51. 3. The Allies Go on the Offensive .”
3. The Allies Go on the Offensive
After Midway victory, allies felt good and took the offensive in the Pacific under General Douglas Mac Arthur

52. Mass slaughter of civilians, esp. Jews
Holocaust
Anschluss
B'richa
Kapo
Answer: A

53. Hitler’s plan to exterminate Jews
A. Final Solution
B. Mein Kampf
C. Blood Libel
Chelmno
Answer: A

54. Kristalnacht (“Night of the Broken Glass”) marked
End of the Holocaust
Beginning of the Holocaust
Jewish night of celebration
German invasion of USSR
Answer: B

55. Initially Hitler favored purging Germany from Jews through
Emigration
Gas chamber
Shooting
Excommunication
Answer: A

56. Segregated, holding areas where Jews lived til they were transported.
mitzvah
napolas
ghettos
plaszow
Answer: C

57. How many Jews were killed?
100,000
1 million
3 million
6 million
Answer: D

58. Battle where Hitler tried to take over the Soviet Union
Moscow
Stalingrad
St. Petersburg
Omsk
Answer: B

59. Germany lost the Battle of Stalingrad because.
Winter set in
Russians surrounded city, trapping Germans
Supplies were cut off
All the above
Answer: D

60. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were sent to
Jail
Japan
Relocation camps
Military
Answer: C

61. D-Day E- Day V- Day Ra – Day Answer: A
Allied Victory in Europe. Liberated France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands.
D-Day
E- Day
V- Day
Ra – Day
Answer: A

62. A. Brandenburg B. Berlin C. Bavaria Bulge Answer: D
Battle of the – was Germany’s unsuccessful attempt to divide the Allied forces and prevent an invasion of Germany.
A. Brandenburg
B. Berlin
C. Bavaria
Bulge
Answer: D

63. How did Hitler die?

64. Name of the project to develop the Atomic bomb
Queens
Bronx
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Answer: D

65. Which is NOT an atomic bomb.
Banana Joe
Fat Man
Little Boy
Answer: A

66. Atomic bomb was NOT dropped on
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Tokyo
D. All of the above
Answer: D

67. The Nuremburg Trials and Tokyo War Crime Trials
A. B. C. tried Nazis for warcrimes

68. F. Germany: Divided into -- Zones1 2 3 4
Answer: D

69. -- Created to promote world peace, human rights issues
A. League of Nations
B. United Nations
C. European Union
D. United States of the World

70. Country carved out of Palestine at end of WWII (Br. mandate)
A. Lebanon
B. Jordan
C. West Bank
Israel
Answer: D