chapter 25 World War II and the Holocaust – Flashcards
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which of the following statements best characterizes the totalitarian state in the 1930's?
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B.) It was an all-compassing, authoritarian dictatorship that subordinated individual needs, and employing police power and mass propaganda to achieve total control.
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Mussolini became prime minister of Italy...
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A.) When King Victor Emmanuel, reacting to Fascist intimidation, appointed him.
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Which of the following was NOT true about Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy?
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B.) It never achieved the totality of power, in repression and media control that the dictatorships in Germany and the Soviet Union did.
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Which of the following was something done by Hitler in violation of the Treaty of Versailles?
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D.) All of the above
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Hitler wrote Mein Kampf...
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C.) Laying out his plan for rebuilding a strong Germany
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The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923...
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B.) Was an attempt to seize power in southern Germany
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The SA, or Storm Troops were...
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A.) the Nazi party militia
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The events that allowed Hitler to gain dictatorial powers by "legal" means were...
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D.) The "Enabling Act"
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The Nuremberg Laws established the...
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D.) The legal isolation of German Jews from citizenship and legal rights
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Stalin's five-year plans focused on...
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D.) increasing industrial and farm output as well as transportation
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Stalin's program of forcibly moving all Russian farmers onto communal lands was called...
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D.) Collectivization
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Hitler desired this portion of Western Czechoslovakia to add to the growing Nazi empire
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D.) Sudetenland
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Which of the following is NOT attributed to Nazi or Fascist ideology?
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A.) Anti-militarism
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The 1930's Joseph Stalin implemented...
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A.) Massive purges of old Bolsheviks, army officers, party members, and many others.
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At the Munich conference f 1938...
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A.) the British and the French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland
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Major German initiatives in moving toward control of Europe before 1939 included all EXCEPT?
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B.) German seizure of Libya in 1935
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Hitler intended to gain more land for Germany in
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B.) Russia
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Head of the SS
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B.) Heinrich Himmler
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The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 was facilitated by Hitler's nonaggression pact with...
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D.) Stalin's Soviet Union
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The Blitzkrieg was...
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B.) A coordinated sudden attack by land and air forces
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After Hitler occupied most of France, the remainder of the country became...
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B.) Vichy France, a German puppet state
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Axis forces attacked the British and North Africa...
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D.) To take the Suez Canal and cut off British trade with Asia
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Though not of any extraordinary military significance, this event was a huge moral boost to the American public...
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D.) the Doolittle Raid
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The naval battle that established United States naval superiority in the Pacific was the Battle of...
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A.) Midway
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On the Eastern Front...
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A.) at Stalingrad, the German war machine was finally stopped.
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The largest tank battle in history...
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D.) Kursk
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Following this battle on a Japanese homeland island, the U. S. was able to bomb mainland Japan around the clock...
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B.) Iwo Jima
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Aerial bombing of wartime Japan...
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C.) Included the first use of an Atomic Bomb
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The Cold War...
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A.) Began immediately following the conclusion of WWII
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At the meeting of the Big Three at Yalta in early 1945...
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C.) the Allies decided to partition postwar Germany
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Which country was the site of most of the Nazi extermination camps?
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D.) Poland
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Hitler's "final solution" to the Jewish problem called for...
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A.) the extermination of all European Jews
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In the Holocaust, the Germans killed six million or more people who were jewish as well as other victims deemed "undesirable". To murder so many innocent civilians in so short time, the Germans...
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C.) created vast death camps where victims were systematically murdered in Gas Chambers
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Besides the Jews, another group singled out by the Nazis for extermination were the...
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D.) all of the above
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The Holocaust included all EXCEPT
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D.) The establishment of execution camps in Italy
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C.) was the gas used to exterminate the Jews
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It was Hitler's first act against the Jews
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B.) Boycott Day
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Which of the following was a concentration camp located in southern Germany?
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C.) Dachau
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The Diaspora
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A.) led to the forceful displacement of Jews throughout North Africa and Europe
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The Holocaust included all EXCEPT...
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D.) the establishment of execution camps in France
