7.5-7.7 Global Conflicts
Germany's Problems
-inflation and depression -gov betrayed the country -Jews and communism -NEEDS to restore German GREATNESS
Which of the following developments during the Second World War would Franck most likely have cited as evidence to support his arguments in the passage?
Allied firebombing in Germany and Japan had caused massive devastation and civilian casualties, and atomic weapons were vastly more powerful than those used in firebombing.
D-Day (June 6, 1944)
Allied troops landed at Normandy Beach to start liberating France from German control
December 7, 1941
Attack on Pearl Harbor
when Germany invades Poland
Britain and France declare war on Germany IMMEDIATELY--US stayed neutral for 2 yrs
result of the end of WWI
Germans were forbidden to put troops in the Rhineland
Bombing of 1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Which of the following countries experienced the greatest number of war-related deaths during the Second World War?
The Soviet Union
Path to war: 1918
Wiemar Republic replaces the ruler of Kaiser
Artworks of the type shown in the image were used for all of the following EXCEPT to
encourage Soviet citizens to embrace Western popular culture
Hideki Tojo Gets justice
executed for war crimes 1948
1919: ITALY
fascists organized in Italy
The Ottoman Empire likely entered into the conflict referred to in the passage because
it had lost significant territory to other European states in the nineteenth century
causes of WWII in Germany
-Fascism in Germany -inflation -unemployment -disgruntled veterans -weak economy -destruction of infrastructure -creation of bitterness
Conditions for Hitler to take power
-inflation and depression -democratic gov discredited -antisemitism rising -extreme nationalism growing
Japan and Imperialists Policies
-japan desire to obtain resources -japan wants to expand into eastern USSR (stopped by Hitler and Stalin) -----1933 Non-Aggression Pact
Germans: 1940
-swept through Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg -took France in 1 month -Nazis took Denmark and Norway
Dates of WWII
1939-1945
The table best supports which of the following conclusions?
European powers maintained colonies despite global war and economic depression.
1935: ITALY
Invades Ethiopia
1931: JAPAN
Japan invades Manchuria
Sept.18 (Mukden Incident)
Japanese railroad in Manchuria destroyed
when Emperor Haile Selassie excelled...
League of Nations dies when they don't retaliate to Ethiopia invasion
Path to war: 1939
September 1 Hitler invades Poland
Allied victory owed much to the
Soviet Dictator Stalin
Shigenobu's criticism of European race-based discrimination against Japanese people is significant mostly because it shows that advocates of Japanese imperialism
adopted the European attitudes about a "civilizing mission" and used those attitudes to justify Japan's own imperial policies
President Harry Truman
approved that use of a secret new weapon, the Atom Bomb
The mention of "President Wilson's principles" is most directly significant to understanding the editorial's point of view about the Treaty of Versailles because of the United States president's commitment to
broker a peace agreement on liberal principles that would not be motivated by revenge
how Hitler showed experience
by being a soldier--propaganda posters
Hitler is strapped
committed suicide and Germany Surrendered
Japan: Emperor Hirohito
expanding throughout Asia and Pacific 1930s and 1940s
Iwo Jima and Okinawa (1945)
gruesome battle--large death toll
Hitlers almost death
he narrowly escaped assassination by some of his own officers
1922: ITALY under Mussolini as Prime Minister
modernized the army and portrayed it as their heir (Roman legions)
Examples of Nazi propaganda
soup kitchen
Hitlers Paramilitary Forces
storm troopers/Brown shirts
Japanese fought with
suicidal furry
Allies benefited from
superior political leadership
Nazis started off as...
the "SAVIORS" of Germans after WWI
1922: ITALY
they march to Rome
Japan Strategy
wanted US to accept Japanese "predominance" in Asia rather than fight a bloody war
The differences in the passages above are most likely a result of which of the following?
Demilitarization imposed by the United States after the Second World War
The expenditures shown in the table most strongly illustrate which of the following?
Despite some medical advances, the environment in Africa continued to present unique challenges to European imperialism.
Big 3
FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
Path to war: 1936
Germany enter the Rhineland (breaks the Treaty of Versailles)
Hitler and the Nazis portrayed themselves as the answer to...
Germany's Problems
Path to war: 1932 election
Hitler and Nazi gain minority control
US declares war on Japan
Hitler declares war on the US
Path to war: 1933-Enabling Act
Hitler given full authority for one year
Germans: 1941
Hitler took the ultimate gamble and invaded his former Soviet Union
the Battle of the Bulge
Hitler's last-ditch effort to repel the invading Allied armies in the winter of 1944-1945 (last offensive)
As shown in the image, the deployment of soldiers by European powers most directly relates to which of the following causes of conflict during the early twentieth century?
Imperialist expansion and competition for resources
Taken together, the two sources best support which of the following conclusions regarding the situation in British India in 1940?
Indian opposition to British rule involved groups pursuing very different political goals.
with Germany out of the war...
Japan faced the U.S.'s full furry
August 15, 1945 VJ Day
Japanese finally agreed to unconditional surrender (war in Pacific was finally over)
Which of the following arguments would a supporter of using nuclear weapons against Japan have most likely cited to explain the limitations of Franck's arguments in the first and second paragraphs?
Japanese government propaganda instilled fierce, suicidal nationalism in the Japanese population, making Japan unlikely to surrender unconditionally without experiencing the effects of nuclear weapons.
Ideas similar to those expressed in the passage would contribute most directly to which of the following?
Japanese imperialist policies in East and Southeast Asia in the first half of the twentieth century
Which of the following twentieth-century developments most directly weakened European colonial states and contributed to the changes between the two maps?
Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia during the Second World War
Even after the fire bomb attacks and total destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japanese resisted "unconditional surrender" (feared their emperor would be tried and executed for his crimes)
Hitler wants Czechoslovakia
Minister Chamberlain tries for appeasement by giving him what he wants --tries to get him to stop (doesn't work)
Japan fails at Pearl Harbor
Most of the carriers and U-boats were deployed to the Pacific
Look up pictures of
Stalin, FDR, Churchill, Tojo
the situation shown in the image is best understood in the context of which of the following aspects of twentieth-century warfare?
States made full use of their populations and material resources to fight total wars.
The primary rationale for Japan's territorial acquisitions in Southeast Asia during the period 1933-1942, as reflected in Map 2, was most similar to the primary rationale for which of the following?
The British East India Company's takeover of other European states' colonial possessions in India
Stalingrad (1942)
The German advance into Russia was stopped at Stalingrad -cold winter -stiff Russian resistance -turning point in the East
Based on the passage, it can be inferred that Mazower might also support which of the following assertions?
The Nazis' rigidly ideological approach to empire building prevented them from consolidating their control of continental Europe.
Which of the following true statements about the Netherlands best explains how the newspaper's national origin likely influenced the view of Germany expressed in the editorial?
The Netherlands, by remaining neutral during the war, profited significantly from helping Germany evade the Entente's naval blockade.
Which of the following was the most important factor behind Europeans' readiness to embrace authoritarian political systems in the 1930s?
The economic crisis caused by the Great Depression
Contemporaries who agreed with Franck's argument in the second and third paragraphs regarding the need for an international agreement would most likely have made which of the following arguments to support their position?
The end of the war would probably lead to a new rivalry between the victorious states.
In Poem 2, the reference to Indian victories on battlefields is best understood in the context of which of the following?
The mobilization of Indian troops to fight in Great Britain's wars
Which of the following accurately explains the historical significance of the harsh conditions imposed on Germany that the editorial describes?
They encouraged the rise of political extremism in Germany
After Midway
U.S used an "island hopping" strategy to get close enough to bomb Japanese
Asian reactions to Western claims of racial and cultural superiority, such as the reaction by Shigenobu in the passage, were also instrumental in the period 1918-1945 in the
intensification of anti-imperial resistance activities and independence movements
Shigenobu's point of view regarding Western attitudes toward Japan as expressed in the passage is significant in that similar ideas were used by members of the Japanese government during the period between the First and the Second World Wars to justify
militarizing the Japanese state and expanding its territories in Asia
