Unit 9 Pt. 2

Question 1

The Pact of Steel was between Germany and _____.

Answer 1

Italy

Question 2

On _____ the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, invading Nazi-occupied France.

Answer 2

D-Day

Question 3

Hitler was confident that he could defeat the _____ because of their weak response to the German Army during WWI.

Answer 3

Soviet Union

Question 4

This country initiated the Berlin Blockade.

Answer 4

USSR

Question 5

Which nation was responsible for the construction of the Berlin Wall?

Answer 5

East Germany

Question 6

What led to the outbreak of WWII?

Answer 6

Third Reich

Question 7

United States President _____ made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.

Answer 7

Truman

Question 8

Winston Churchill was the _____ of Great Britain during World War II.

Answer 8

Prime minister

Question 9

Who came to the aid of the British at Dunkirk?

Answer 9

Private boats

Question 10

The United States used “_____” to fight the Japanese in the Pacific.

Answer 10

Island Hopping

Question 11

_____, in the Eastern Bloc, did not follow the dictates of the Soviet Union but still practiced communism.

Answer 11

Yugoslavia

Question 12

Who led the North Koreans during the Korean War?

Answer 12

Kim II-Sung

Question 13

Who attacked Pearl Harbor?

Answer 13

Japan

Question 14

_____ desire to “de-Stalinize” the USSR led to a greater amount of personal freedom for Soviet citizens.

Answer 14

Khrushchev’s

Question 15

The Cold War was considered a(n) _____ and a(n)_____ between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Answer 15

Arms and space race

Question 16

The death toll for both military personnel and civilians (Allied and Axis) was well above _____.

Answer 16

30 million

Question 17

Which countries were NOT part of the Eastern Bloc?

Answer 17

Yugoslavia, Vietnam

Question 18

What did the communist insurgents in South Vietnam call themselves?

Answer 18

National Liberation Front

Question 19

NATO stands for _____.

Answer 19

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 20

The Domino Theory of the spread of communism led the United States to _____.

Answer 20

Send American troops to fight in Vietnam

Question 21

The Nazis called their plan to eliminate the Jewish people from Germanic lands the _____.

Answer 21

Holocaust

Question 22

What significant promise did Adolf Hitler make at the Munich Conference?

Answer 22

To only take control of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia and go no further

Question 23

Normandy Invasion

Hitler commits suicide

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Answer 23

2, 3, 1