Chapter 36 Review – Flashcards
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A: 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.
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Q: The Cuban missile crisis ended when
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A: weakened by rivalry between Chinese nationalists and communists.
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Q:Chinese resistance to the Japanese was (P.836)
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A: Britain and the United States would not be intimidated into abandoning Berlin.
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Q: The Berlin blockade clearly demonstrated that (P.856)
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A: capitalism and communism.
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Q: Ideologically, the two competing sides in the cold war were (P.856)
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A: All these answers are correct
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Q: A key factor in the Allied victory in the Pacific was (P.848)
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A: the attempted murder of every living Jew in Europe.
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Q: The "final solution" entailed (P.850
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A: meeting at which Stalin ensured that the Soviets would control eastern Europe.
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Q: The Yalta conference was the (P.854)
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A: Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Q: Members of the Axis powers included: (P.836)
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A: gained a quick victory over all opponents, and occupied most of Europe.
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Q: After invading western Europe in 1940, Germany (P.840)
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A: a range of responses from willing collaboration to open resistance
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Q: What was the reaction to Japanese and German occupation of conquered lands? (P.848)
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A: outrage at the German treatment of Jewish minorities in eastern Europe.
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Q: All of the following were essential to the Soviet defense against the Nazis EXCEPT (P.840)
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A: a lightning war.
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Q: The German Blitzkrieg refers to (P.840)
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A: after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Q: The Japanese finally surrendered in 1945 (P.848)
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A: the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
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Q: the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
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A: Germany's forced union with Austria in 1938.
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Q: Anschluss refers to (P.840)
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A: freed Hitler to pursue a more aggressive policy in western Europe.
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Q: The Russian-German Treaty of Nonaggression of 1939 (P.840)
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A: that the Americans had broken Japanese codes and discovered Japanese planning.
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Q: The key to winning the naval victory at Midway was (P.842)
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A: deport all European Jews to concentration camps in Poland for extermination.
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Q: At the Wannsee Conference in 1942, Nazi leaders decided to (P.850)
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A: revising the peace settlements that followed the Great War, and ending their economic problems.
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Q: Japan, Germany, and Italy engaged in territorial expansion in the 1930s with the aim of (P.836)
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A: the Soviet announcement that the four-power administration of Berlin was no longer in effect.
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Q: The Berlin crisis of 1948 was caused by (P.856)
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A: the invasion of South Korea by North Korean forces.
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Q: The Korean War was precipitated by (P.856)
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A: Ethiopia
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Q: Italy conquered ________ in the 1930s to create an overseas empire. (P.840)
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A: Austria
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Q: In 1938 Germany sent troops into what country and forced its leaders to accept the Anschluss? (P.840)
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A: All these answers are correct.
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Q: As a result of the Korean War, (P.856)
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A: All these answers are correct.
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Q: As evidence of the renewed power and glory of Italy, Mussolini (P.840)
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A: a U.S. financial plan to rebuild Europe and stop Soviet expansion.
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Q: The Marshall Plan was (P.854)
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A: invading anti-Castro Cuban forces were overwhelmed by Cuban troops.
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Q: At the Bay of Pigs in 1961, (P.860)
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A: the intense Nazi bombing attacks on Great Britain in 1940 and 1941.
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Q: The Battle of Britain refers to (P.840)
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A: gain access to raw materials such as tin, rubber, and petroleum.
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Q: The Japanese invaded Indochina in 1940 in order to (P.842)
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A: the vast personnel and industrial capacity of the United States and Soviet Union
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Q: The key to Allied victory in Europe was (P.848)
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A: WAVES
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Q: Which of the following was the Naval auxiliary for women formed by the United States Navy during World War II? (P.852)
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A: a mix of installed puppet governments and direct military rule.
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Q: The Japanese controlled their conquered territories through (P.842)
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A: the Soviet Union.
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Q: The ultimate German target of invasion in World War II was (P.840)
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A: Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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Q: The Tripartite Pact brought together (P.836)
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A: the United States would support free people resisting subjugation by insurrection or outside interference.
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Q: The Truman Doctrine pledged that (P.854)
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A: direct combat.
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Q: Women in the United States and Britain performed all the following wartime activities EXCEPT (P.852)
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A: a direct clash in Berlin between Soviet and U.S. troops in 1948
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Q: Which of the following events and processes did NOT occur as a result of the cold war? (P.856)
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A: The Warsaw Pact
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Q: Which of the following is NOT an example of the U.S. policy of containment? (P.856)
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A: the Bay of Pigs.
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Q: The United States tentatively supported a failed invasion of Cuba at (P.860)
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A: Thailand.
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Q: At the height of their expansion, the Japanese had established either direct or indirect control over all of the following EXCEPT (P.848)
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A: centuries of anti-Semitism in Europe.
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Q: The Nazi destruction of Europe's Jewish population was preceded by (P.850)
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A: the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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Q: Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was code for (P.840)
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A: Nanjing.
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Q: The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached in what was called the rape of (P.836)
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A: an American-led oil embargo against Japan.
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Q: The immediate provocation for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was (P.842)
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A: China
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Q: The first nation to experience the nature of World War II brutality aimed at civilians was (P.836)
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A: All these answers are correct.
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Q: What role did women play in World War II? (P.852)
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A: Germany and Italy declared war on the United States four days later.
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Q: As a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, (P.842)
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A: agreed that Hitler could keep lands already taken in exchange for a pledge to end German expansion.
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Q: At the Munich Conference, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (P.840)
