Chap 25 - WW 2 Flashcards
Which of the following states are considered totalitarian?
a. Russia under Stalin, Italy under Mussolini and Germany under Hitler
b. Germany under Hitler
c. Russia under Stalin
d. Italy under Mussolini
e. Great Britain under Churchill
a.Russia under Stalin, Italy under Mussolini and Germany under Hitler
Who led the first Fascist movement in Europe?
a. Franco
b. Stalin
c. Hitler
d. Mussolini
d.Mussolini
Which of the following is a typical Fascist slogan?
a. “Woman into the factory”
b. “Women, Unite!”
c. “Women to the Front”
d. “Woman into the home”
d.”Woman into the home”
Mussolini was known as
a. El Aryan
b. Der Reichstag
c. Il Duce
d. Der Furher
c.Il Duce
Hitler’s Nazi party was the
a. Sturmabteilung
b. Nazi Aryan Racial State
c. German Socialist Party
d. National Socialist German Workers’ Party
d.National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Which president of the Reichstag agreed to allow Hitler to become Chancellor of Germany?
a. Paul von Hindenburg
b. Wilfried Loth
c. Heinrich Himmler
d. Walter von Jungen
a.Paul von Hindenburg
Whom did the racial laws announced at Nuremberg exclude from German citizenship?
a. Slavs
b. Jews
c. women
d. Aryans
b.Jews
The goal of Joseph Stalin’s five-year plan was to transform Russia into a(n)
a. agricultural country
b. police state
c. industrial country
d. military world power
c.industrial country
Who coined the slogan, “Asia for the Asians”?
a. Inukai Tsuyoshi
b. Ho Chi Minh
c. Kita Ikki
d. Saito Makoto
c.Kita Ikki
Hitler believed that the Western democracies had no intention of using force to maintain the
a. Treaty of Paris
b. Munich Conference
c. Sudetenland
d. Treaty of Versailles
d.Treaty of Versailles
Where was the region Germany called the Sudetenland?
a. Czechoslovakia
b. Russia
c. Poland
d. Austria
a.Czechoslovakia
The “Mukden incident” was actually carried out by
a. Japanese saboteurs
b. Korean guerillas
c. Chinese saboteurs
d. American agents
a.Japanese saboteurs
Japanese strategists hoped to force Chiang Kai-shek to join a Japanese-dominated
a. Great East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
b. new order in East Asia
c. Communist Front
d. Non-agression Pact
b.new order in East Asia
What was Blitzkrieg?
a. panzer division
b. “phony war”
c. “lightning war”
d. death squad
c.”lightning war”
What year did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
a. 1939
b. 1942
c. 1941
d. 1940
c.1941
Who were the three major Allies in the Grand Alliance?
a. Britain, the United States and France
b. France, the United States and Canada
c. Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union
d. the Soviet Union, Britain and France
e. the United States, Britain and Canada
c.Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union
Who were the Axis powers?
a. Italy, Japan and China
b. Germany, Japan and China
c. Germany, Italy and Japan
d. China, Germany and Italy
c.Germany, Italy and Japan
Who led the process of “island hopping” after the Battle of Midway Island?
a. General Dwight D. Eisenhower
b. General Harry Truman
c. General Theodore Roosevelt
d. General Douglas MacArthur
d.General Douglas MacArthur
Hitler’s attempt to exterminate the Jewish people of Europe was carried out by the
a. Madagascar Plan
b. SS
c. Zyklon B
d. Holocaust
b.SS
Which of these Big Three conferences did President Harry Truman attend?
a. Munich
b. Tehran
c. Yalta
d. Potsdam
d.Potsdam
