WWII final review
The above photograph was taken in
Berlin
Each of the following is true of the casualties suffered by Bomber Command except
Bomber Command lost 12.4% of its bomber crews
"You think I am interested in England winning the war. I am not. I am only interested in French victory." Who said the above quotation?
Charles de Gaulle
--Winston Churchill, "Iron Curtain Speech," Westminster College. Fulton, MO, March 5, 1946. The concerns expressed by Churchill in the excerpt above were a response to which of the following historical events?
Countries in Eastern Europe came under the military, political, and economic domination of the Soviet Union.
Prior to Overlord, each of the following amphibious assaults had been disasters or near-disasters except
Dragoon
A political controversy followed Allied victory in north Africa. Why of the following best describes this controversy?
Dwight Eisenhower appointed a former Vichy official as High Commander of north Africa
The decisive battle in the north African campaign was
El Alamein
Which of the following is not part of the functionalist interpretation of the origins of the Final Solution?
Hitler intended to murder all European Jews from an early date
According to Andrew Roberts, the reason Hitler lost the Second World War was exactly the same reason that caused him to unleash it. What was this reason?
Hitler was a Nazi
As a result of the failed assassination attempt of July 1944,
Hitler's control actually was actually solidified
The roots of the north African campaign lay largely in
Hitler's desire to gain access to Persian Gulf oil
Each is true of the deportation and gassing process at Auschwitz-Birkenau except
Jews were stripped of all their possessions before being transported to the killing centers
The two men who played key roles in the rapprochement (repairing good relations) between Germany and France in the postwar period were
Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle
Each of the following is true with regards to the Marshall Plan except
Marshall Plan money was limited to those countries that had been defeated by Nazi Germany in the war
This battle ended any hope of Japan continuing her offensive operations in the Pacific Ocean.
Midway
The heaviest resistance on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day was at _________ Beach.
Omaha
The key event in the transition from forced emigration of Jews to mass murder was
Operation Barbarossa
What does Gerhard Weinberg point out in his analysis of Curt Pruefer's diary?
Pruefer's original diary show him to be a staunch nationalist that supported Nazi anti-semitism; his revised diary from the postwar period portrays him as anti-Nazi and sympathetic to the Jews
The Germans called the brutal, hand to hand combat that characterized the fighting in Stalingrad
Rattenkrieg
The first successful large-scale amphibious assault, using LSTs (landing ship tanks), was during the invasion of
Sicily
?The most important center of Jewish cultural and political activity in Poland, and perhaps in all of Europe, was
Warsaw
According to Gerhard Weinberg, the most significant question that historians of postwar France need to answer is:
Why did the Vichy Army fight everyone except the Germans, Italians, and Japanese?
Existentialism as a philosophy is best understood in the context of
a declining belief after the Second World War in the positivism of the Enlightenment
The Second World War resulted in each of the following except
a solidification of prewar class structures and gender roles
Evidence suggests that in the summer of 1940 Hitler was considering each of the following solutions to the growing "Jewish problem" except
allowing them to emigrate to Scandinavia and the United States
Each of the following is true with regards to Jews in Nazi Germany from 1933-1939 except
approximately 10% of the population of Germany was Jewish in this period
The primary issue with regards to researching the Second World War in the Soviet theater, according to Gerhard Weinberg, is
archival access for historians and the poor physical condition of many sources
Each of the following is true with regards to the postwar feminist movement in Europe except
birthrates for women increased with the "baby boom" and continued their upward rise into the 1970s
In his article on resistance to the Nazi regime, Gerhard Weinberg argues
considering the totalitarian structure of the Nazi regime, the best chance of overthrowing it was from insiders
Each of the following is true of the postwar movement of decolonization except
decolonization was spurred by demands for racial equality despite the fact that Europeans could still afford to administer empires
Each of the following is true of the Chindits except
despite their place in British legend, they actually achieved very little--never having cut Japanese transportation links in Burma
Why did attempts at "de-Nazification" slow after 1948?
former Nazis were often needed to run postwar western governments
Each of the following is true of Reinhard Heydrich except
he was Adolf Eichmann's assistant in the RSHA
After the United States entered the war in early 1942, the primary debate that dominated Allied strategic discussions was
if the Allies should directly assault Nazi Germany or continue with the peripheral strategy
Each of the following is true with regards to the impact of the Second World War on European culture except
intellectuals emphasized a return to the progressive, enlightened past of the pre-First World War period
Andrew Roberts argues that the most significant error Hitler made in the Second World War was
invading the Soviet Union before securing Egypt, the Middle East, and oil fields of Iraq and Iran
Each of the following is true of the Wannsee Conference except
it took place in the context of the Allied invasion of Normandy
Andrew Roberts argues that the Combined Bomber Offensive against Germany was justified for each of the following reasons except
it was a proportionate response to the Luftwaffe's bombings of London and Coventry
Each of the following applies to existentialism except
it's only in daily routines that one can find one's "true" self
Each of the following is true of Reserve Police Battalion 101 except
members faced severe punishment if they refused to kill
Targets of the Einsatzgruppen included each of the following except
members of the Orthodox Church's leadership
With regards to memoir literature, Gerhard Weinberg warns historians that
memoirs are almost invariably inaccurate and at times simply faked
Each of the following is true with regards to "sexual" warfare during the Second World War except
numerous American soldiers were executed for raping German women after the invasion and occupation of the country
In his planning with his American allies, Arthur Harris of Bomber Command
opposed precision attacks on ball-bearing and synthetic oil factories, arguing the Germans would simply find ways to replace these lost resources
"Another item on which I ventured to advise President Truman involved the Soviet's intention to enter the Japanese war. I told him that since reports indicated the imminence of Japan's collapse, I deprecated the Red Army's engaging in that war. I foresaw certain difficulties arising out of such participation and suggested that, at the very least, we ought not to put ourselves in the position of requesting or begging for Soviet aid. It was my personal opinion that no power on earth could keep the Red Army out of that war unless victory came before they could get in." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, recollections of a July 1945 meeting with President Harry S Truman, 1948 The implication in the document is that the United States used the atomic bomb on Japan in order to
prevent the Russians from entering the war and therefore gaining a say in the peace settlement in the Far East
Each of the following is true of postwar European culture and society except
rebellions against the culture of conformity in Europe had little in common with those taking place in the United States
Because of the urban nature of combat in Stalingrad, soldiers such as Anatoly Chehov and Vasily Zaitsev became important. These two soldiers became famous for being __________.
snipers
One of the main problems within the European Union, and especially amongst those countries in the Eurozone, is
some of the member countries have not abided by the fiscal requirements agreed upon when the EU was formed
The primary function of the British Special Operations Executive was to
support the organization and funding of resistance movements on the European continent
As a result of high losses suffered at the start of the war, the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command
switched to night-time bombing, which was far less accurate
The above document is best understood in the context of
the "nazification" of German society in the face of continuing defeats in 1944 and 1945
The July 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler is best understood in the context of
the Allied invasion of Normandy
Each of the following is true except
the Allied invasion of southern France was deadlier than the Allied invasion of Normandy
The attempt in 1944 by the Germans to split the Allied armies in southern Belgium and northern France and to eventually reach the English Channel once again (as in 1940) was later referred to as
the Battle of the Bulge
Which of the following is not correctly matched?
the Common Market and single market only for coal and steel
The origins of the European Union lay in
the European desire to tie nations together economically so as to avoid futures conflicts like World War II
The above cartoon is best understood in the context of each of the following except
the German desire to link up with Japanese forces in south Asia
Each of the following is true with regards to the mobilization of the German economy during the war except
the Germans were relatively ineffective at exploiting conquered labor
The war in the Far East was extremely racist. Which of the following prisoners of war (POWs) taken by the Japanese died at the highest rate?
the Indonesians
The German destruction of the Czech village of Lidice is best understood in the context of
the Nazi policy of "collective responsibility"
The USAAF suspended day-light raids after the attempted raid on Schweinfurt. What new weapon allowed it to resume raids by late 1943?
the P-51 Mustang
Which of the following is the primary reason the Polish Home Army in Warsaw attempted an uprising against the Germans as the Red Army approached the city in 1944?
the Polish Home Army wanted to take control of their capital, and their country, before the Soviets did
Cold War tensions started to develop by early 1945. Why did the Soviets have an advantage in these early stages of the Cold War?
the Red Army enjoyed a great deal of prestige in the east and it occupied most of eastern Europe
The first fully independent air force in the world was
the Royal Air Force
The turning points that resulted in the near elimination of the growth rate of German armaments production were the bombings of
the Ruhr and Hamburg
In his refusal to allow free elections in eastern Europe after 1945, Joseph Stalin cited
the Soviet need for security and a buffer zone from future western incursions
Each of the following was true about the atomic bomb except
the bomb killed more in one blast than the fire bombings of Tokyo
The Japanese decision to surrender was influenced by each of the following except
the consensus amongst his advisors to surrender before the Americans invaded
The situation depicted above resulted in each of the following except
the failure of the Soviet "deep battle" plan in the context of Operation Bagration
The Germans initiated a systematic program of killing in 1939 when they started murdering
the handicapped
The above map is best understood in the context of
the initiation of the currency reform in the western zone of the Allied occupation of Germany
Each of the following is true of the resistance movements in Europe except
the largest single act of resistance was the uprising in Sarajevo in 1944
Each of the following is true of the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy except
the legend that Allied forces were aided by mafia in Sicily are probably true
Andrew Roberts argues that professional German military officers served the Nazis with efficiency for each of the following reasons except
the vast majority of them sought to undermine the Nazi regime from within, so they continued to serve
Each of the following is true of female Soviet soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad except
they served in the highest echelons of the Soviet military leadership
Each of the following is true of postwar migration patterns in Europe except
within Europe, the primary migratory pattern has been from urban to rural settings as a result of more efficient manufacturing
