The Western Experience, 10th Edition (Chambers)

Chapter 28: The Nightmare: World War II

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
Britain and France responded to the Anschluss by
A)opening a second front against Germany.
B)sending reinforcing expeditionary forces to Czechoslovakia, Germany's next likely target.
C)moving military and naval forces to the German border.
D)merely protesting.
E)bombing German steel mining and steel-making centers.
2
The Munich Agreement resulted in
A)the immediate demonization of Neville Chamberlain.
B)the reduction of Eastern Europe's strongest democracy into a German dependency.
C)the German absorption of Austria.
D)the immediate loss of Hungarian and Polish territory to the German state.
E)the immediate recognition by Britain that full scale war would be necessary.
3
Stalin concluded an alliance with Hitler because
A)he was an unscrupulous dictator.
B)Britain and France had responded weakly to his overtures.
C)he was a crafty communist.
D)it was part of his long-term plan to conquer the world.
E)he feared hostilities with Japan in the east and hoped to avoid a two-front war.
4
In the first two years of war, Germany overran all of the following EXCEPT
A)Poland.
B)Denmark and Norway.
C)Holland and Belgium.
D)France.
E)the Soviet Union.
5
The German victories were based on "blitzkrieg" tactics, which involved
A)a terrible new Teutonic force.
B)the use of tanks supported by aircraft to drive deep behind enemy lines.
C)a totalitarian achievement other societies could not equal.
D)the use of futuristic "lightning" machines that panicked enemy soldiers.
E)a belief that Allied commanders were inferior.
6
Hitler's change in tactics during the Battle of Britain to focus bombing on British cities
A)dramatically reduced morale among the British people.
B)dissipated the military and economic effects of the bombing.
C)multiplied the economic effects of the bombing but had little military effect on Britain.
D)increased Hitler's chances of forcing Britain out of the war.
E)caused Britain to have to withdraw its military support for French resistance.
7
The tide of war turned for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A)that the Japanese attack on the United States brought the world's strongest economy into the Allied coalition.
B)that the Russian victory at Stalingrad cost Germany more than a half a million casualties, a loss they could not afford.
C)that the British and Americans quickly mounted an attack into northern France to help the Russians.
D)that British and American victories in North Africa started the Allied powers on the road to victory.
E)the accuracy of American strategic bombing.
8
Until 1943, Germany
A)experienced a much lower standard of living than had been enjoyed prior to the war.
B)relied mostly on foreign labor to support the war effort.
C)was able to mobilize its entire populace for total war.
D)told its people to prepare for unending war.
E)failed to prepare its citizens for total war.
9
At the height of "production," the death factory at the concentration camp Auschwitz was killing
A)1,200 people per week.
B)12,000 people per week.
C)1,200 people per day.
D)12,000 people per day.
E)120 people per day.
10
All of the following were divisive issues in forging Allied strategy EXCEPT
A)the "Europe first" policy.
B)when to open the "second front."
C)how to structure the new government and boundaries of Poland.
D)the relationship between the Allies, de Gaulle's Free French, and Vichy officials.
E)the tense relationship between Britain and the United States on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other.
11
Germany's V-2 rocket
A)was hampered by the ease with which it was intercepted.
B)benefitted from accurate targeting capability.
C)was too ineffective and would have had little impact even if introduced at the beginning of the war.
D)flew faster than the speed of sound and was almost impossible to intercept.
E)was improved upon by the V-1 pilotless plane.
12
The Yalta conference in February 1945 successfully worked out all of the following EXCEPT
A)the decision to create – and the basic structure of – the United Nations.
B)the way governments would be set up in liberated countries.
C)the entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan.
D)the nature of the occupation zones for Germany.
E)the form of Italy's postwar government and De Gaulle's ascendance in France.
13
The devastation of the war in Europe included all of the following EXCEPT that
A)the war killed between 45 and 55 million people.
B)Europe's industrial production was half of what it had been in 1939.
C)some 60,000,000 Europeans were refugees at the end of the war.
D)atom bombs had wiped out entire cities, leaving them heaps of rubble.
E)4 million men died on the battlefields.
14
All of the following were imposed on Germany EXCEPT
A)it was divided into four occupation zones.
B)it was saddled with a huge reparations debt.
C)its leaders were put on trial for war crimes.
D)its eastern border was adjusted to the west.
E)all Nazi institutions were abolished.
15
The Allies created all of the following international agencies to help maintain peace EXCEPT
A)the United Nations Organization, to provide relief and, if necessary, keep the peace with armed force.
B)Amnesty International, to keep track of the human rights abuses that had characterized the Axis.
C)the International Monetary Fund, to keep currencies stable.
D)the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which later became the World Bank.
E)the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in 1943 to organize food and medical relief.
16
The new regimes were characterized in all of the following ways EXCEPT
A)Western European countries re-established parliamentary regimes.
B)Eastern European countries established governments and economies modeled on the Soviet Union.
C)Germany re-established the Weimar Republic based on its old constitution.
D)England went through a profound transformation under a socialist Labor government.
E)Yugoslavia managed to resist economic and political pressure from both East and West to take an independent course.
17
A political alliance of what three major parties filled the void in French government after the war?
A)Socialists, Liberals, and Conservatives
B)Communists, Socialists, and Conservatives
C)Communists, Socialists, and Christian Democrats
D)Conservatives, Christian Democrats, and Labor
E)Communists, Labor and Socialists.
18
During the time of the "phony war," the French communists
A)urged greater concern over the power of Germany's fascist government.
B)sought a military alliance with Soviet Union.
C)attacked the war as a pointless imperialist conflict.
D)thought Britain a greater threat than Germany.
E)believed that Germany had been justified in its power moves up to that point.
19
In Stalin's address to the Soviet people after the initial German attack,
A)he denied that the initial defeats had even occurred.
B)he urged citizens not to resist the German advance.
C)he urged citizens to pursue a scorched earth policy.
D)he rejected the idea that the Allies were fighting together against the Soviets.
E)he called for patience in hopes that a peace deal might still be reached.
20
Which country was referred to as "the arsenal of democracy" by its own leader during the initial phase of WWII?
A)France
B)Germany
C)the United States
D)Great Britain
E)the Soviet Union
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