EOC Review: World War 2 (Causes and Military Events)

Question 1

Form of authoritarian nationalism, one party state, dictatorial power and control of industry.

Accepted Answer

Fascism

Question 2

Which tactical move by Adolf Hitler forced the Soviet Union to join the Allies?

Accepted Answer

Hitler invaded the Soviet Union

Question 3

Which of the following countries was NOT part of the Axis Powers?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 4

Name for allied landing on June 6, 1944 in Normandy, France.

Accepted Answer

D-Day

Question 5

These 1930s laws sought to ensure that the US would not be involved in more wars after WWI.

Accepted Answer

Neutrality Acts

Question 6

This wartime document listed the joint postwar goals of the United States and England.

Accepted Answer

Atlantic Charter

Question 7

This research and development undertaking produced the first nuclear weapons:

Accepted Answer

Manhattan Project

Question 8

Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator; installed by Hitler.

Accepted Answer

Francisco Franco

Question 9

Which one of these nations joined the Allied powers after the start of the war?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 10

The name for the post-war plan to help Europe recover financially and otherwise:

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

Question 11

Which of the following was NOT a city to be hit with an atomic bomb?

Accepted Answer

Tokyo

Question 12

This U.S. program gave supplies and weapons to allies on a temporary basis.

Accepted Answer

Lend-Lease Act

Question 13

This was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941:

Accepted Answer

Operation Barbarossa

Question 14

Allowed for sale of weapons to belligerents if they used own ships & paid in paper currency.

Accepted Answer

Cash and Carry

Question 15

Which of the following was not one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms"

Accepted Answer

freedom from socialism

Question 16

Military tribunals held by the Allies to prosecute violations of the laws of war:

Accepted Answer

Nuremberg Trials

Question 17

This is the American president in power when the atomic bombs were dropped:

Accepted Answer

Harry S. Truman

Question 18

Foreign policy that argues that nations are best served by keeping other nations at a distance.

Accepted Answer

isolationism

Question 19

Making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict:

Accepted Answer

Appeasement

Question 20

Which one of these countries was NOT part of the Allied Powers?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 21

The name for the strategy used by the American Navy to reach the Japanese mainland:

Accepted Answer

island-hopping

Question 22

The name for the intentional action to destroy an ethnic, nation, racial, or religious group:

Accepted Answer

genocide

Question 23

This is a method of warfare if short, fast, powerful attacks by armored vehicles & air support?

Accepted Answer

blitzkrieg

Question 24

This day occurred after the surrender of German forces on May 9, 1945.

Accepted Answer

V-E Day

Question 25

The name for the Nazi's systematic murder of Jews, gypsies, communists, handicapped, & others:

Accepted Answer

Holocaust

Question 26

Which of the following events occurred first?

Accepted Answer

an American embargo of Japanese oil

Question 27

Which of the following leaders is NOT correctly paired with his nation?

Accepted Answer

United States = Neville Chamberlain

Question 28

This ideology says the state has no limits to its authority and regulates all forms of life.

Accepted Answer

totalitarianism

Question 29

Which of the following events happened last?

Accepted Answer

V-J Day

Question 30

This form of fascism incorporates racism, anti-Semitism, and Social Darwinism.

Accepted Answer

Nazism

EOC Review: World War 2 (Causes and Military Events)

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EOC Review: World War 2 (Causes and Military Events)

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