Quiz

1	World War II opened in the East when the Japanese used the Mukden incident to
			falsely accuse China of aggression.
			falsely accuse the Soviet Union of aggression.
			establish a puppet government in Manchuria known as Manchukuo.
2	Japan's reign of terror, highlighted in events such as the rape of Nanjing, resulted in the Guomindang's retreat to the island of Chongquing and
			CCP's use of guerrilla warfare.
			invasion of allied powers.
			Soviet intervention.
3	Germans resented the Paris Peace settlement and Hitler used their frustration to rise to power. After rebuilding the German military, he annexed
			Austria and Sudetenland.
			Austria and Sweden.
			only Austria.
4	The Munich Conference
			created the regional Allied defense against Hitler's aggression.
			formulated the policy of appeasement to Hitler.
			created the Axis powers.
5	In 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Nazi-Soviet pact, which
			conceded German control over Eastern Europe.
			promised German and Soviet neutrality in the event of a third party attack.
			brokered critical trade agreements between the two countries.
6	Operation Barbarossa in 1941 had the Germans invading
			France.
			the Soviet Union.
			Poland.
7	In their fight against the German invasion, the Soviets finally were victorious in
			the Battle of the Blitzkrieg.
			the Battle of Stalingrad.
			the Battle of Moscow.
8	Key to the Soviet defense was
			a harsh Russian winter.
			large industrial resources.
			all of the above.
9	On December 7, 1941, the Japanese
			attacked Pearl Harbor.
			attacked Hong Kong.
			attacked Manchuria.
10	Wartime strategies which bombed urban centers were intended to
			kill civilians on a large scale.
			knock out industrial infrastructures.
			Both of the above.
11	In the firebombing of Dresden
			the Germans massacred the British civilians.
			the Soviets massacred the German civilians.
			the British massacred the German civilians.
12	A result of the separate occupations by the Japanese and the Germans was
			slave labor.
			communism.
			increased GNP.
13	Resistance to the Nazi's "final solution" was highlighted by the uprising at
			Auschwitz.
			the Warsaw Ghetto.
			the Battle of Moscow.
14	At the Warnsee Conference in 1942, Nazi leaders decided to
			invade Poland.
			deport all European Jews to Poland concentration camps.
			create the SS Eisantzgrupen.
15	Unlike their male counterparts, women in the United States and Britain found themselves largely unaffected by the war
			true
			false
16	The Allied principle meant that the Allied powers would control
			the territories liberated by one's own armed forces.
			those lands occupied during the war years by Axis powers.
			only the defeated territories in Asia.
17	The Truman Doctrine redrew the world in terms of
			free and nonfree.
			west and east.
			communists and market capitalists.
18	The U.S. policy of intervention was dedicated to
			destruction of communism.
			containment of communism.
			destruction of the Soviet Union and Communist China.
19	In response to the Marshall Plan, the Soviet Union offered COMECON, which provided
			economic assistance to western Europe.
			free military protection of satellite states.
			relocated peasants as an industrial workforce.
20	The UN created in 1945 was dedicated to
			maintaining international peace.
			containing Soviet communism.
			bringing the industrial revolution to agrarian countries.