history: chpt. 19 test

Question 0

Alliance between Germany and Japan

Answer 0

Anti Comintern Pact

Question 1

Alliance between Mussolini and Hitler

Answer 1

Rome-Berlin Axis

Question 2

No weapons or fortifications permitted

Answer 2

Demilitarized

Question 3

Policy of satisfying reasonable demands and in exchange for peace

Answer 3

Appeasement

Question 4

Agreement between Hitler and Stalin

Answer 4

Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

Question 5

In 1940, Japan was forced to decide which it needed more

Answer 5

Indochina’s raw materials or U.S. oil and scrap iron

Question 6

In December 1936, Chiang Kai-shek ended his military efforts against the Communists and

Answer 6

Formed a front against Japan

Question 7

Chamberlain’s Munich Conference with Hitler in 1938 resulted in Britain

Answer 7

Feeling that peace was secured

Question 8

Hitler was confident that the western states who had signed the Treaty of Versailles would

Answer 8

Not use force to maintain it

Question 9

Hitler planned to conquer the Soviet Union in order to

Answer 9

Secure land and Slavic slaves to strengthen the Reich

Question 10

Hitler’s “lightning war,” using air supported panzer divisions

Answer 10

Blitzkrieg

Question 11

Series of fortifications along France’s German borders

Answer 11

Maginot Line

Question 12

Target of Japanese attack on December 7, 1941

Answer 12

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Question 13

Site of Allies’ D-Day invasion

Answer 13

Normandy

Question 14

The German Air Force

Answer 14

Luftwaffe

Question 15

Truman wanted to avoid an invasion of Japan because he believed that

Answer 15

Americans would suffer heavy losses

Question 16

Which country was referred to as the “soft underbelly” of Europe by Winston Churchill

Answer 16

Italy

Question 17

The turning point of the war in Asia that established U.S. naval superiority over Japan in the Pacific was the Battle of

Answer 17

Midway island

Question 18

At the beginning of 1943, the Allies agreed to seek from the Axis Powers nothing short of

Answer 18

Unconditional surrender

Question 19

Japanese leaders miscalculated American intent and thought that the United States would accept

Answer 19

Japanese domination of the Pacific

Question 20

Hitler’s “Final Solution” for the Jews

Answer 20

Genocide

Question 21

Crowded designated containment or holding areas within cities for Jews

Answer 21

Ghettos

Question 22

Hitler’s largest extermination center in Poland

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Auschwitz

Question 23

The mass slaughter of European civilians, especially Jews

Answer 23

Holocaust

Question 24

French Indochinese Communist leader

Answer 24

Ho Chi Minh

Question 25

After 1941, Germany ruled some areas like Poland through direct annexation, but most of occupied Europe was run by German officials with

Answer 25

Local collaborators

Question 26

Japan had conquered Southeast Asia during World War I using the slogan

Answer 26

"Asia for the Asiatics"

Question 27

Some people didn't believe or acknowledge the full horrors of Hitler's slaughter of civilians for all of these reasons EXCEPT one A. World War I propaganda had exaggerated German atrocities B. Some people pretended not to notice C. Allied forces chose to focus on ending the war D. Collaborators refused to help Nazis hunt down Jews

Answer 27

D. Collaborators refused to help Nazis hunt down Jews

Question 28

The victims of the Holocaust included large numbers of all of the following groups EXCEPT A. Jews B. Slavic people C. Gypsies D. Italians

Answer 28

D. Italians

Question 29

Foreign diplomats tried to save Jews by

Answer 29

Issuing exit visas

Question 30

Assembling and preparing for war

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Mobilization

Question 31

"Divine wind"

Answer 31

Kamikaze

Question 32

British name for German air raids

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Blitz

Question 33

Post war ideological conflict between the U.S. and the USSR

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Cold War

Question 34

Site of Truman's demands for free elections in Eastern Europe

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Potsdam

Question 35

Churchill called postwar Soviet policy in Eastern Europe the

Answer 35

"Iron Curtain"

Question 36

Stalin wanted to create a buffer to protect the Soviet Union from the West by creating

Answer 36

Satellite, pro-Soviet state governments

Question 37

At Yalta, the Big Three—the USSR, the U.S., and Great Britain— all insisted that

Answer 37

Germany surrender unconditionally

Question 38

The Tehran Conference in 1943 set in motion a plan that would ultimately result in

Answer 38

Germany being divided along the north-south line into East and West

Question 39

The Yalta Conference resulted in the Big Three powers agreeing to

Answer 39

Form the United Nations