Quiz 26 Flashcards
The Battle of Britain was __________
Germany’s amphibious invasion of Britain.
none of these answers.
an air war on Britain by Germany.
the occupation of the French region of Brittany.
an air war on Britain by Germany.
the occupation of the French region
After Japan’s conquest of __________, almost 800,000 people were sent to Japan as forced labor.
Thailand
Burma
Korea
Malaysia
Korea
The bombing of civilian targets during World War II included all EXCEPT __________
the bombing of Washington, D.C.
the first use of atomic bombs.
the nightly bombing of London, England, during the blitz.
the use of fire bombs in Dresden, Germany.
the bombing of Washington, D.C.
Which of the following is NOT true about Hitler’s theory of Aryan racial domination?
The peoples living in conquered lands would be used as slave labor.
Hitler wanted to find land to be conquered to the west.
To be a great power, Germany needed to expand
its lands.
Hitler wanted to build a great civilization called the Third Reich.
Hitler wanted to find land to be conquered to the west.
The battle at __________ proved to be the turning point for Hitler’s plan to expand to the east.
Moscow
Stalingrad
Crimea
the Caucasus
Stalingrad
What was Germany’s first step in expansion and the first step toward war?
the invasion of Czechoslovakia
the remilitarization of the Rhineland
the occupation of the Sudetenland
the Anschluss with Austria
the remilitarization of the Rhineland
The issue over __________ caused a serious split between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Yalta Conference.
free elections in Eastern Europe
Soviet military help against Japan
an American-British invasion in France
the creation of the United Nations
free elections in Eastern Europe
A restriction intended to enforce international law is a(n) _____________.
collaborator genocide kamikaze partisan sanction tariff blitzkrieg
sanction
After the Allies established naval superiority in the Pacific following the Battle of Midway Island, they __________
retook China.
attacked the main island of Japan.
dropped atomic bombs on Japan.
adopted a strategy of “island hopping.”
adopted a strategy of “island hopping.”
Which was NOT one of the ways in which Hitler and the SS administered the Final Solution?
Einsatzgruppen of the SS executed Jews in villages in the Soviet Union.
Jews were moved into ghettos in Polish cities.
Jews were relocated to undesirable lands to make room for German settlers.
Jews were sent to concentration and death camps.
Jews were relocated to undesirable lands to make room for German settlers.
What was the impact of Japan’s expansion into China?
It forced Chiang to relocate his capital.
It forced Chiang Kai-shek to take his attention off the Chinese Communists.
It achieved all of these answers.
It brought condemnation from the West.
It achieved all of these answers.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, World War II became a global war, in which all of the following were among the major Allied forces EXCEPT __________
France.
the United States.
Great Britain.
the Soviet Union.
France
Which was Japan’s MAIN reason for expansion?
to become a member of the League of Nations
to find new markets for its manufactured goods
to find sources of raw materials for its industries
to establish a new system of control in Asia under Japanese guidance
to establish a new system of control in Asia under Japanese guidance
A resistance fighter in World War II was called a(n) _____________.
appeasement rebel blitzkrieg sanction collaborator partisan kamikaze
Partisan
The war impacted life in the United States by __________
creating severe food shortages.
integrating African Americans in the military for the first time.
vast areas of the country being destroyed by war.
creating boomtowns and widespread movement of people.
creating boomtowns and widespread movement of people.
