Chapter 27 history
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, the Baltic countries, and Germany were exterminated in death camps?
90
By 1941, the Japanese Empire included all of the following, EXCEPT?
Australia.
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, especially after the German invasion of Russia in 1941.
At the Munich Conference in 1938, Hitler demanded the right to annex the German-speaking area of?
Czechoslovakia.
The Nazi rule of Europe was most ruthless in?
Eastern Europe because the Slavs were considered racially inferior.
Most of the Holocaust death camps were in the Sudetenland.?
False
Immediately following the fall of Poland?
France and Britain declared war, but remained relatively inactive militarily.
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 one of the following did NOT occur after Hitler's unilateral 1935 announcement of German rearmament?
Italy praised Germany and counseled more such behavior in the future.
Demonstrating again that ever-higher military technology was crucial to the conduct and outcome of World War II, 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 and established U.S. Naval supremacy in the area was?
Midway.
In the Nazi New Order, the Germans established civil administrations in which of the following states?
Norway.
In 1946, former British prime minister Winston Churchill declared that "an iron curtain" had "descended across the continent" of Europe.?
True
Japan's attack on Manchuria resulted in condemnation by the League of Nations and Japan's withdrawal from the League.?
True
Who became the new prime minister of Great Britain in May 1940?
Winston Churchill
The idea of Lebensraum maintained that?
a nation's power depended on the amount and kind of land it occupied.
Chief among the reasons for Japanese expansion in the 1930s were?
an expanding population and severe lack of natural resources on the island nation.
The turning point of the North African campaign came?
at El Alamein where the British stopped Rommel in the summer of 1942.
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 turning its great naval war machine against Japan.
Following World War II, Germany was?
divided into four zones of occupation under U.S., British, French, and Russian administration.
On the eastern front, the turning point in World War II was the Battle of Kursk.
false
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.
It can be argued that this key decision early in the war by Adolf Hitler made the defeat of Germany inevitable:?
immediately declaring war on the United States after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
In the Allied bombing strategy in Europe, Americans participated?
primarily in daytime, precision bombing of German strategic targets.
Hitler's "Diplomatic Revolution" between 1933 and 1936 included all of the following EXCEPT?
seizing leadership of the League of Nations in 1933.
The Nazi Einsatzgruppen were?
special strike forces used in eastern Europe that proceeded to round up and kill Jewish men, women, and children.
At the conference at Yalta in 1945, Roosevelt called for postwar policy to be guided by?
spheres of influence.
Integral to Germany's plans for blitzkrieg was?
tanks. mobile artillery. mechanized infantry. air power. all of these
All of the following is true of the home front in the United States EXCEPT?
the Great Depression continued, although the worst effects of it were alleviated.
Hitler settled on acquiring German Lebensraum in the east in Russian territory in part because of his racist belief that?
the Slavs were an "inferior" people now governed by impotent Jews among the Bolsheviks and worthy of enslavement.
Between April and June of 1940, Nazi Germany successfully invaded all of the following countries 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.
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 was apathetic, and many feared that it would spell disaster for Germany.
President Truman and his advisers chose to use the atomic bombs against Japan because?
they became convinced that American troops would suffer heavy casualties in an invasion of Japan.
Civilian bombing was done mainly?
to break the will of a people to resist.
Hitler's unilateral repudiation of the disarmament clauses of the Versailles Treaty in 1935 resulted in verbal condemnation but no concrete responses from either Britain or France.?
true
In Asia, the turning point in World War II was the Battle of Midway.?
true
The policy adopted by Neville Chamberlain at Munich in 1938 in response to Hitler's demand for Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland is known as "appeasement."?
true
Hitler took Poland in 1939?
using "lightning war" tactics and with active support from Joseph Stalin.
