Chapter 36 Multiple Choice Questions – Flashcards
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The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at the Rape of . . .
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Nanjing.
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The Tripartite Pact brought together . . .
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Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Chinese resistance to the Japanese was . . .
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weakened by rivalry between Chinese nationalists and communists.
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As evidence of the renewed power and glory of Italy, Mussolini . . .
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annexed Albania, annexed Libya, invaded Ethiopia, and supported militarists in the Spanish civil war.
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In 1938, Germany sent troops into what country and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss?
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Austria
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At the Munich Conference, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain . . .
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agreed that Hitler could keep lands already taken in exchange for a pledge to end German expansion.
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The Russian-German Treaty of Nonaggression of 1939 . . .
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freed Hitler to pursue a more aggressive policy in western Europe.
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The German Blitzkrieg referred to . . .
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a lightning war.
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Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was code for the . . .
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German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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All of the following were essential to the Soviet defense against the Nazis EXCEPT . . .
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outrage at the German treatment of Jewish minorities in eastern Europe.
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Immediate provocation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was . . .
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an American-led oil embargo against Japan.
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The key to Allied victory in Europe was . . .
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vast personnel and industrial capacity of the United States and Soviet Union.
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A key factor in the Allied victory in the Pacific was the . . .
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island-hopping strategy that positioned U.S. troops within striking range of Japan, massive aerial bombing of key Japanese cities, development of the atomic bomb, and declaration of war by the Soviet government against Japan.
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At the height of their expansion, the Japanese had established either direct or indirect control over all of the following EXCEPT . . .
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Thailand.
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The Japanese finally surrendered in 1945 . . .
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after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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At the Wannsee Conference in 1942, Nazi leaders decided to . . .
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deport all European Jews to concentration camps in Poland for extermination.
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Women in the United States and Britain performed all the following wartime activities EXCEPT . . .
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direct combat.
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The Truman Doctrine pledged that . . .
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the United States would support free people resisting subjugation by insurrection or outside interference.
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The Marshall Plan was . . .
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a U.S. financial plan to rebuild Europe and stop Soviet expansion.
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The Berlin blockade clearly demonstrated that . . .
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Britain and the United States would not be intimidated into abandoning Berlin.
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The United States tentatively supported a failed invasion of Cuba at . . .
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the Bay of Pigs.
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At the Bay of Pigs in 1961, . . .
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invading anti-Castro Cuban forces were overwhelmed by Cuban troops.
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The Cuban missile crisis ended when . . .
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the Soviets agreed to withdraw their missiles in exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade Cuba and his agreement to withdraw U.S. missiles from Turkey.
