Chap 25 - WW 2

Question 1

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

Answer 1

a.Russia under Stalin, Italy under Mussolini and Germany under Hitler

Question 2

Who led the first Fascist movement in Europe?

a. Franco
b. Stalin
c. Hitler
d. Mussolini

Answer 2

d.Mussolini

Question 3

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”

Answer 3

d.”Woman into the home”

Question 4

Mussolini was known as

a. El Aryan
b. Der Reichstag
c. Il Duce
d. Der Furher

Answer 4

c.Il Duce

Question 5

Hitler’s Nazi party was the

a. Sturmabteilung
b. Nazi Aryan Racial State
c. German Socialist Party
d. National Socialist German Workers’ Party

Answer 5

d.National Socialist German Workers’ Party

Question 6

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

Answer 6

a.Paul von Hindenburg

Question 7

Whom did the racial laws announced at Nuremberg exclude from German citizenship?

a. Slavs
b. Jews
c. women
d. Aryans

Answer 7

b.Jews

Question 8

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

Answer 8

c.industrial country

Question 9

Who coined the slogan, “Asia for the Asians”?

a. Inukai Tsuyoshi
b. Ho Chi Minh
c. Kita Ikki
d. Saito Makoto

Answer 9

c.Kita Ikki

Question 10

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

Answer 10

d.Treaty of Versailles

Question 11

Where was the region Germany called the Sudetenland?

a. Czechoslovakia
b. Russia
c. Poland
d. Austria

Answer 11

a.Czechoslovakia

Question 12

The “Mukden incident” was actually carried out by

a. Japanese saboteurs
b. Korean guerillas
c. Chinese saboteurs
d. American agents

Answer 12

a.Japanese saboteurs

Question 13

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

Answer 13

b.new order in East Asia

Question 14

What was Blitzkrieg?

a. panzer division
b. “phony war”
c. “lightning war”
d. death squad

Answer 14

c.”lightning war”

Question 15

What year did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?

a. 1939
b. 1942
c. 1941
d. 1940

Answer 15

c.1941

Question 16

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

Answer 16

c.Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union

Question 17

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

Answer 17

c.Germany, Italy and Japan

Question 18

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

Answer 18

d.General Douglas MacArthur

Question 19

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

Answer 19

b.SS

Question 20

Which of these Big Three conferences did President Harry Truman attend?

a. Munich
b. Tehran
c. Yalta
d. Potsdam

Answer 20

d.Potsdam