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World War II began with
Japanese attacks on China
The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at the Rape of
Nanjing
The weakness of the League of Nations war revealed in its inability to take any substantial action in response to the Italian invasion of
Ethiopia
While the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was on the surface a nonaggression treaty, it had secret stipulations that spelled out
The Division of eastern Europe
The European part of World War II began with the
German invasion of Poland
The German Blitzkrieg referred to
lightning war
In the Battle of Britain, the Germans hoped to defeat the English
Almost solely through air attacks led by the Luftwaffe
By December 1941, the Soviets gained two new allies in their struggle to defeat the German invasion of their country: a severe winter and
United States
The Japanese goal in the bombing of Pearl Harbor was to
destroy the United States' naval capacity.
The U.S. victory on the Pacific that turned the tide against the Japanese was
Midway
The Japanese finally surrendered in August 1945
After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Operation Barbarossa was the
German plan for an invasion of the Soviet Union
The Warsaw Pact
Was formed in response to NATO
NATO was
an alliance that consisted of states from both Europe and North America
The largest of the Nazi death camps was
Auschwitz
Sometimes during 1941, the Nazi leadership committed to the "final solution" of the Jewish question, a solution that entailed the attempted murder of every Jew living in Europe
True
Which of the following accurately explains the historical significance of the harsh conditions imposed on Germany that the editorial describes?
They encouraged the rise of political extremism in Germany
Which of the following developments during the second world war would Franck most likely how do you cited as evidence to support his argument in the passage?
Allied firebombing in Germany and Japan had caused massive devastation and civilian casualties, and atomic weapons were vastly more powerful than those used in firebombing
The image can best help explain which of the following differences between the Nazi program of genocide and other acts of genocide in the early twentieth century?
The Nazis industrialized the killing process allowing them to commit murder on a massive scale
Which of the following countries experienced the greatest number of war-related deaths during the Second World War?
Soviet Union
Which of the following was not a result of the peace treaties signed following World War II?
German industrial power was destroyed
A Jewish homeland to be called Israel was established in 1948
Palestine
The treaties that settled the conflict referred to in the passage most directly changed the geopolitical structure of the Middle East in which of the following ways?
Allied powers received territorial mandates from the Leauge of Nations
In the excerpt above, Mustafa Kemal is most clearly supporting which of the following?
Nationalism
Which of the following was a common characteristic of the major revolutions that occurred in Russia, China, and Mexico in the early twentieth century?
nationalism and socialism helped shape all three revolutions
The passage above best exemplifies which of the following processes shortly after the outbreak of the first world war?
The strengthening of nationalist sentiment throughout Europe
In the excerpt above Mustafa Kemal is most clearly supporting which of the following?
Nationalism
Which of the following best describes the lithograph above by German artist George grosz
A post-First World War print expressing antiwar sentiment
The photograph above of German east African troops best illustrates which of the following historical processes during the first world war?
The increasing inclusion of non-Europeans in European conflicts
The global economic downturn of the 1930s had which of the following affects on nations in Europe and North America
Government took a more active role in directing and regulating their economies to stimulate growth
Which of the following best describes an important difference between Carl Marx's theory of socialist revolution and that of Vladimir Lenin
Only Lenin argued that the workers revolution will have to be led by professional revolutionaries
Which of the following best supports the contention that thefirst world war was the first total war?
Government mobilized large segments of the populations and economies and targeted their opponents in military and economic capabilities
Which of the following contributed significantly to the decline of both the Qing and the ottoman empire?
Internal conflict with ethnic and religious minorities
Which of the following is an accurate comparison of the Chinese and Mexican revolutions during the 20th century
Both generated land-redistribution policies
Which of the following is an accurate description of relations between European states in the ottoman empire in the period 1815 to 1914?
Russian, English, and French expansion came at the expense of the Ottomans
Which of the following most directly led to the start of the first world war?
Nationalist competition among industrialized power for resources
Which of the following was a major long-term effect of the global economic depression of the 1930s?
governments began to take a more active role in their economies
The spark for World War I was provided when Gavrilo Princip assassinated
Francis Ferdinand
Which of these were the four reasons for the start of World War I
Militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism
Approximately how many combatants died in World War I?
15 million
Which of the following was not an important area of competition and conflict between England and Germany in the years leading up to World War I?
Religious differences
The members of the triple alliance were
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
The soldiers who marched off in 1914 to fight in World War I were mostly
Enthusiastic young man who expected a quick victory
The western front in World War I was
A bloody stalemate
Which of the following was not a characteristic of the new total war of World War I?
the extension of laissez-faire capitalism to its greatest extent
What effects did World War I have on the status of women?
Women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war
The Japanese fight in World War I due to their
Desire to acquire German colonies in Asia
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Ended Russian involvement in World War I
The Russian civil war that broke out after the revolution was between
Reds, being the communists of Lenin's regime; and Whites, comprising a collection of anti-communist groups.
War related deaths continued past armistice day in the form of
An influenza epidemic
The machine gun represented one of the most important advances in military technology and compelled military leaders to rethink their battlefield tactics
True
The Great War became total, fought between entire societies, not just between armies.
True
The final form of the peace treaty that ended the great war represented Woodrow Wilson's 14 points
False
Governments invested heavily in the army and navy recruitment campaigns and other wartime propaganda
True
Britain followed through after World War I with their promise of independence and allowed Arab countries that fought in World War I their freedom
False
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