Question 1

History's greatest naval invasion occurred on June 6, 1944, when the Allies landed in Normandy.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Identify the following terms.
-Blitzkrieg

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Blitzkrieg, a German term meaning "light...

Question 3

The SA, or Storm Troops, were

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A)  the Nazi party militia.
B)  the major threat to the security of the Nazi Party before 1923.
C)  the first type of Kolkhoz.
D)  led by Hermann Goering.
E)  Mussolini's Black Shirts.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 4

The Blitzkrieg was

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A)  a steady, methodical armed attack that was aimed at achieving an eventual weakening of an enemy and, finally, surrender.
B)  a coordinated sudden attack by land and air forces.
C)  never able to achieve its specific military objectives.
D)  a series of naval attacks that were aimed at blockading enemy ports.
E)  the use of massed artillery fire and poison gas against enemy fortifications.F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 5

Japan's decision to seize much of Southeast Asia was based primarily on

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A)  its contempt for China.
B)  a need to satisfy rampant nationalism.
C)  providing bases for Pacific dominance.
D)  the need to secure vital natural resources.
E)  Tojo's meglamania.F) C) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 6

At the Munich Conference of 1938,

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A)  the British and the French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland.
B)  the British prime minister refused to agree to the demands of Adolf Hitler.
C)  the policy of appeasement successfully put a stop to German expansion in Europe.
D)  eventual Nazi control of all of Czechoslovakia was avoided.
E)  Winston Churchill gave his support to the policy of appeasement.F) D) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 7

Aerial bombing of wartime Japan

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A)  occurred only during the last month of the war.
B)  had virtually no effect on Japanese industrial facilities.
C)  included the first use of an atomic bomb.
D)  produced very little destruction of Japanese housing.
E)  spared Tokyo entirely.F) A) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 8

The increasingly anti-Semitic phase that moved towards violence in Germany was started with​

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A)  ​the Nuremberg Laws
B)  ​the Mischling Laws
C)  ​Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) 
D)  ​partitioning of Poland
E)  ​implementing the blueprints of the Wannsee ConventionF) B) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 9

Compare and contrast the authoritarianism of Stalin's Soviet Union with that of Hitler's Germany. What are the similarities and what are the differences between the two regimes? Was one more totalitarian than the other? Why and how?

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Both Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's ...

Question 10

Identify the following terms.
-the Blitz

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The Blitz was a sustained bombing campai...

Question 11

The Aryan racial state

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A)  was destined, in Nazi plans, to control Western Europe and Africa.
B)  needed only the passive tolerance of the German population in order to be established.
C)  required the active involvement of the entire German population to achieve its destiny.
D)  disliked mass demonstration unless the emotionalism was minimized.
E)  would make all women warrior-soldiers, thus doubling Aryan military strength.F) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

On the Eastern Front,

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A)  at Stalingrad, Germany lost an army of 300,000.
B)  in Siberia, Japanese troops never penetrated more than 500 miles inland from their base in the Pacific port of Vladivostok.
C)  German troops continued to push east of the Ural Mountains in early 1944.
D)  Indian Gurkha troops played a major role in the battles of Moscow and Stalingrad.
E)  over ninety percent of Moscow was flattened during the German bombing raids of late 1944.F) All of the above
G) C) and E)

Question 13

Identify the following terms.
-Einsatzgruppen

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The Einsatzgruppen were mobile killing u...

Question 14

Among the major results of World War 2 was

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A)  the beginning of a major and world-wide decolonization movement.
B)  the restoration of European world hegemony.
C)  the restoration of a multi-power world.
D)  the permanent partition of Germany.
E)  that Japan was forced to join NATO.F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 15

The Holocaust included all of the following except

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A)  an attempt to increase the efficiency of the Einsatzgruppen units by moving mass murder activities to fixed, "death camp" locations.
B)  consuming approximately 90 percent of central and eastern Europe's Jewish population.
C)  the elimination of Gypsies and many others from groups deemed undesirable by the Nazis.
D)  the murder of millions of forced laborers who died of starvation, overwork, or shooting.
E)  the establishment of execution camps in France.F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 16

Identify the following terms.
-five-year plans

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Five-year plans are comprehensive econom...

Question 17

The events that allowed Hitler to gain dictatorial powers by "legal" means were

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A)  his Dachau speech and the two subsequent assassination attempts by the SPD in 1932.
B)  the death of President Hindenburg and Hitler's speech at Hindenburg's funeral.
C)  the Reichstag fire, Mussolini's "Caesar" speech, and Rommel's endorsement.
D)  the crushing of the Kiel Mutiny by the SS.
E)  the passage of the Enabling Act by the Reichstag.F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 18

To whip up popular support for his totalitarian regime, Hitler organized gigantic mass rallies in the 1930's in the city of

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A)  Berlin.
B)  Nuremberg.
C)  Cologne.
D)  Vienna.
E)  Munich.F) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 19

Identify the following terms.
-Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences

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The Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferenc...

Question 20

The greatest tank battle during WW 2 was the Battle of ​

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A)  Stalingrad​
B)  ​El-Alamein
C)  ​Kursk
D)  ​Rome
E)  ​the BulgeF) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

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