chap. 20 test

Question 0

what was the code name for America’s atomic bomb project?

Answer 0

the Manhattan Project

Question 1

who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII?

Answer 1

Winston Churchill

Question 2

when did Israel become a nation-state?

Answer 2

1948

Question 3

what was the name of the German army’s last great offensive in Europe?

Answer 3

the London “Blitz”

Question 4

the invasion of Poland was the worlds first taste of ___________, or lightning war.

Answer 4

blitzkrieg

Question 5

______________ is a military alliance between several Western Europe nations, Canada, and the U.S.

Answer 5

The Grand Alliance

Question 6

Who was Alger hiss?

Answer 6

a communist party organizer in the US.

Question 7

who was Joseph McCarthy?

Answer 7

the senator if Wisconsin who encouraged that the U.S. state department had been infiltrated by large numbers of communist spies

Question 8

the ___________ was the murder of over six million Jews.

Answer 8

Holocaust

Question 9

which was the first battle in which the opposing ships never saw each other?

Answer 9

the battle of coral sea

Question 10

who led the free Chinese against both the Japanese and the Chinese communists?

Answer 10

Chiang Kai-shek

Question 11

how did the spiritual emptiness in Germany lead many to believe the lies of hitler? whom did hurler blame Germany’s problems on? how did hurlers belief in evolution lead to the murder of millions?

Answer 11

• the liberal theology blinded many from biblical truth
• he blamed it on Jewish bankers and Jewish people
• he said to ensure the survival of the fittest, he had to kill off Jewish people

Question 12

how did Americans work together on the home front to help the war effort?

how does this reflect on american unity and patriotism at the time?

Answer 12

• they made bombs, ships, guns, and victory gardens

* they were all joined together for war

Question 13

why was America able to develop the atomic bomb before the Germans?

Answer 13

the U.S. had a group of genius scientists researching and making it

Question 14

what caution did Churchill give about Stalin? how did Roosevelt feel about Stalin? what was the truth about Stalin?

Answer 14

• Churchill suspected that Stalin was putting communist spies into the government and church
• Roosevelt thought that Stalin was a peace loving democratic socialist
• he was the biggest mass-murderer

Question 15

what body of water did the allies cross the liberate France? what was the name and date of the battle?

Answer 15

the English Channel. the D-day invasion, June 6, 1944

Question 16

who was the leader of Italy’s fascist party?

Answer 16

Benito Mussolini

Question 17

why did Adolph hurler become so angry at Jesse Owens?

Answer 17

he disproved the nazi idea of German racial superiority

Question 18

what event prompted the U.S. to enter WWII?

Answer 18

the attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 19

what was the name of the British Prime Minister who appealed to America for help after the London “Blitz”?

Answer 19

Winston Churchill

Question 20

what act passed into 1940 allowed the allies to buy large amounts of American food and weapons?

Answer 20

the Lend-Lease act

Question 21

how did America respond after receiving the news about the Battle of Britain?

Answer 21

Roosevelt shipped weapons and food to Great Britain

Question 22

what document laid the foundation of the United Nations?

Answer 22

the Grand Alliance

Question 23

_______________ was the American General who invaded Sicily in order to work his was into Italy.

Answer 23

George S. Patton, Jr.

Question 24

____________ was the American General appointed by President Roosevelt to be the Allied commander of Egypt.

Answer 24

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 25

____________ was the American General who was forced to surrender the Philippines to the Japanese but returned three years later to liberate the Filipinos from Japan.

Answer 25

Douglas MacArthur

Question 26

_____________ was the German General known as the desert fox.

Answer 26

Rommel

Question 27

____________ was the name for the second-generation Japanese-Americans who emerged from WWII as the most decorated unit in the entire US Army.

Answer 27

Nisei

Question 28

____________ led the American air raid over Tokyo, Japan, in April 1942

Answer 28

Doolittle

Question 29

by 1941, __________ stood alone as the last bastion of freedom in Europe.

Answer 29

Britain

Question 30

describe the D-day invasion

Answer 30

it was the largest amphibious assault in history

Question 31

how were the Navajo Indians useful during the WWII?

Answer 31

they helped make codes from their language

Question 32

what were the Japanese suicide planes known as?

Answer 32

kami kazes

Question 33

which president decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan? if that president had not made that decision would the Japanese have decided to surrender? explain your answer.

Answer 33

Harry s. Truman. No, they were already making an atomic bomb to drop on the U.S. and they had once said that they’d rather die than surrender.

Question 34

how did the Truman doctrine keep communism in check?

Answer 34

it pledged american help to any free nation threatened by communist takeover.

Question 35

what is a Cold War?

Answer 35

a conflict (war) without any violence, between the ideologies of Americanism and communism

Question 36

what European recovery plan was proposed to combat postwar poverty and unrest?

Answer 36

the Marshall plan

Question 37

how was the U.S. military able to get food and supplies into West Berlin.

Answer 37

they used the Berlin airlift

Question 38

what was organized after WWII to promote peace among all the nations of the world?

Answer 38

the United Nations

Question 39

how did the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust find refuge?

Answer 39

they fled to Israel