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1. What was Great Britain’s policy of appeasement toward Germany based on?

A.The belief that the satisfaction of reasonable demands would maintain peace in Europe

2.What was the Anti-Comintern Pact?

A.The treaty between Germany and Japan promising a common front against communism

3.What area in northwestern Czechoslovakia did Hitler demand and receive?

A.Sudetenland

4.What did Neville Chamberlain boast the Munich Conference meant?

A.“peace for our time”

5.Britain and France declared war on Germany two days after Hitler invaded what country?

A.Poland

6.What was the “Mukden incident” which Japan used as an excuse to seize Manchuria?

A.An attack on a Japanese railway by Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese

7.What pact gave Hitler the freedom to attack Poland?

A.The Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact

8.Where did the heroic efforts by the British Royal Navy and civilians in private boats manage to evacuate 338,000 Allied troops?

A.Dunkirk

9.What was the blitzkrieg?

A.“lightning war” that utilized tanks supported by airplanes

10.What was the policy that initially kept the United States from becoming involved in the war against Germany?

A.Isolationism

11.What happened on December 7, 1941?

A.The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor

12.What three countries made up the Allied powers?

A.Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States

13.Why was the Battle of Stalingrad a crushing defeat for Germany?

A.Because the entire German 6th Army, considered the best of the German troops, was lost

14.What battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

A.The Battle of Midway Island

15.What is called history’s greatest naval invasion?

A.D-Day

16.The slaughter of European civilians, particularly European Jews, by the Nazi’s became known as what?

A.The Holocaust

17.What was the Final Solution?

A.The Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews

18.Who administered the Nazi’s Final Solution?

A.Reinhard Heydrich

19.What were the special strike forces that were charged with the task of rounding up and killing the Jews called?

A.Einsatzgruppen

20.When the special strike forces in question 19 proved to be too slow for the Nazi’s, what did they do?

A.They built extermination camps in Poland

21.What did Japan do in order to address labor shortages during the war?

A.They brought in Korean and Chinese laborers

22.Who was Hitler’s minister of armaments and munitions who was able to triple the production of armaments despite Allied air raids?

A.Albert Speer

23.Who were kamikaze pilots?

A.Japanese pilots who flew suicide missions against U.S. warships

24.What was the period of political tension called that followed World War II?

A.The Cold War

25.At the Tehran Conference, what did Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill agree to do?

A.To a partition of postwar Germany

26.At the Yalta Conference, what did the Allies agree to establish after the war?

A.A United Nations organization

27.What was the name of the meeting of the Big Three called where they discussed the final attack on Germany?

A.The Tehran Conference

28.At the Potsdam Conference, what did Truman demand throughout Eastern Europe?

A.Freely elected governments

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