CHAPTER 27

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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


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