CHAPTER 27
The cost of the Manhattan Project was
$2 billion.
.The total monetary cost of World War II has been estimated at
$4 trillion.
What percentage of the Jewish population of Poland & Germany were exterminated in death camps?
90
The Nationalist leader of China in the 1930s was
Chiang Kai-shek
A major source of resistance to the Nazis came from
Communists throughout Europe.
At Munich Conference in 1938, Hitler demanded the right to annex the German-speaking area of
Czechoslovakia
Immediately following the fall of Poland
France & Britain declared war, but remained inactive
War broke out between Russia and Germany in 1941 when
Germany launched a surprise attack on Russia.
Hitler's plan for defeating Britain relied on
Germany's Luftwaffe gaining control of the skies.
Besides the Jews, another group singled out by the Nazis for extermination were the
Gypsies
Atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
At the Battle of Stalingrad
Hitler realized that he could not defeat the Soviet Union.
Which of the following did not occur after Hitler's 1935 announcement of German rearmament?
Italy praised Germany
By 1933, the Japanese Empire included all of the following, except
Kauai
The greatest tank battle of all time was fought in this conflict at
Kursk
The naval battle in the Pacific that is considered the turning point of the war
Midway.
In the Nazi New Order, the Germans established administrations in which of these states?
Norway
Hitler's first act of aggression took place in 1936 when the Germans occupied
Rhineland
British who believed in appeasement believed Germany served as a powerful bulwark against
Soviet communism. This is a correct answer
Who became the new prime minister of Great Britain in May, 1940?
Winston Churchil
The idea of Lebensraum maintained that
a nation's power depended on the amount and kind of land it occupied.
Integral to Germany's plans for blitzkrieg was
all of these
Chief among the reasons for Japanese expansion in the 1930s were
an expanding population and severe lack of natural resources
The turning point of the North African campaign came
at El Alamein where the British stopped Rommel
President Truman and his advisers chose to use the atomic bombs against Japan because
convinced American troops would suffer many casualties
At the Conference at Tehran in 1943, the Allies
decided on an American-British invasion of the Continent.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the main priority for the United States was
defeating Germany first and then Japan
Following World War II, Germany was
divided into 4 zones occupied by U.S., GB, French, & USSRS
Among the factors that led to World War II was
failure of efforts of security (league of nations)
The Grand Alliance was cemented by the agreement of the Allies to
fight until the Axis powers surrendered unconditionally
The chief argument between Truman and Stalin at Potsdam in July of 1945 was over
free elections in eastern Europe.
This key decision early in the war by Hitler possibly made the defeat of Germany inevitable
immediately declaring war on the United States
In order to open up a "second front" in Western Europe, the Allies
invaded Normandy in June 1944
In the Allied bombing strategy in Europe, Americans participated
primarily in daytime, precision bombing of German targets.
Allied bombing raids on German civilians
produced stubborn resistance from the German people.
Hitler's "Diplomatic Revolution" between 1933 and 1936 included all of the following except
seizing leadership of the League of Nations in 1933
Following the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk, France
soon surrendered, and the Vichy government was set up
The Nazi Einsatzgruppen were
special strike forces used in eastern Europe to kill Jews.
At the conference at Yalta in 1945, Roosevelt called for postwar policy to be guided by
spheres of influence.
All of the following is true of the home front in the United States except
the Great Depression continued.
Hitler settled on acquiring German Lebensraum in Russian territory because of his belief that
the Slavs were a "inferior" people governed by impotent Jews
Between April and June of 1940, Nazi Germany successfully invaded all of the following except
the Soviet Union
The nation that experienced the greatest population losses in World War II was
the Soviet Union.
The only country to use women as combatants in World War II was
the Soviet Union.
The Nazi rule of Europe was most ruthless in
the east because the Slavs were considered racially inferior
Hitler's "Final Solution" to the Jewish problem called for
the extermination of all European Jews.
When Germany went to war in 1939
the populace feared that it would be disastrous.
Civilian bombing was done mainly
to break the will of a people to resist.
In pursuing the war against the Axis powers, the Grand Alliance demanded of its opponents
unconditional surrender.
Hitler took Poland in 1939
using "lightning war" tactics This is a correct answer
