WWII Test Review

_____ was the only countryin World War II to use women in battle

when a government pays outmore money thank it takes in, it is called...

satisfying reasonable demands in exchange forpeace

agreement between Hitlerand Stalin

Citizens of the Soviet Union experienced severe food and housingshortages because

Hitler’s political theories were based on 

Churchill compared postwar Soviet policy in Eastern Europe to

Why did Germany attack the Soviet Union, its former ally?

. The SS was under the direction of____________________.

The Great Depression was caused primarily by 

Which of the following weakened the League of Nations?

alliance between Mussoliniand Hitler

The ________________legislation gave Hitler supreme power.

restrictions intended to enforceinternational law

Harry S. Truman authorized dropping the atomic bomb on Japan because

no weapons orfortifications permitted

The United States carried on an “island-hopping campaign” in orderto

The “second front” on the beaches at Normandy in France allowedthe Allies to

Parliamentary systems failed in most Eastern European states, inpart, because

In the 1930s some countriesbegan _____, the process of assembling troops and readying for war

Enforcement of the Treaty of Versailles began with the issue of 

The Nuremberg laws definedwho was considered ___________________.

Hitler was confident that the Western states that had signed theTreaty of Versailles would

What was the Kristallnacht, which happened on November 9,1938? 

What is a rapid increase in prices

Early in the war, thepeople of _____ experienced a 900-day siege.

The Japanese used _____pilots in suicide missions against U. S. fighting ships at sea.

Japan claimed that its New Order in Asia would 

The Nazis believed that women should be

Hitler ended Germany’s depression, economic woes, and unemploymentby

Hitler wrote _____________ while he was inprison

What was the result of the Battle of Britain?

What was a key reason that the Allies were able to stop the Germanand the Japanese forces?

The victims of the Holocaust included large numbers of

Which of the following illustrates the fact that the Allies approachedGermany from all sides?

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor caused

Japan claimed it created the Greater East Asia Co-ProsperitySphere to

Why did Japan seize Manchuria and north China?

Which event ended the war in the Pacific?

What is the right of unions to negotiatewith employers over wages and hours?

The Nazis encouraged radio listening because

what was a policy of activegovernmental economic intervention

Increased government activity in the economy during the GreatDepression led to 

what is a period of low economicactivity and rising unemployment

The U.S. experience was quite different from that of the othermajor powers because

Governments bombed the civilian populations of their enemiesbecause

Hitler wanted to dominate other countries because he believed that

The British civilians wereheavily affected by German air raids, or the _____.

The __________ is the nameof the German Parliament

What two countries did Hitler occupy without opposition fromFrance and Great Britain?