Chapter 20 World War II

The League of Nations condemned the Japanese use of force against Manchuria and ________.

did nothing else of substance

The term Anschluss refers to the ________.

union of Germany with Austria following the 1938 German invasion

In a secret agreement, signed in August 1939, the nations of ________ agreed to divide Poland between themselves.

the Soviet Union and Germany

Blitzkrieg means ________.

lightening warfare, which is how Hitler hoped to win

The Battle of the Bulge ________.

was Germany's last major offensive on the western front

The Holocaust claimed the greatest number of victims from ________.

Poland

What nation suffered the most during World War II?

the Soviet Union

What country confiscated radios as a way of limiting access to other countries' propaganda?

the Soviet Union

What was the Atlantic Charter?

a broad set of principles modeled after the Fourteen Points that specified the type of peace Great Britain and the United States sought

Residents of ________ paid with their lives for counting on Russia to liberate their city before turning south to the Balkans.

Warsaw

At the time of the Yalta Conference, Eastern Europe was occupied by ________.

the Soviet Union

At Potsdam, the Allies agreed to ________.

divide Germany into occupation zones

The German invasion of ________ was the immediate cause of World War II.

Poland

The Western powers responded to Hitler's invasion of Austria in 1938 by ________.

taking no action

The key reason why the Western powers adopted a policy of appeasement was their ________.

fear of another general war

How did the Spanish Civil War affect world politics?

It brought Germany and Italy closer together.

The Battle of Britain resulted in ________.

the abandonment of Hitler's plans to invade England

During the ________ the Russians lost more men than the Americans lost in combat during the entire war.

Battle of Stalingrad

Hitler decided on ________ as the "final solution of the Jewish problem."

extermination

Which of the following statements about French resistance during World War II is correct?

Only after an Allied victory seemed possible did a large-scale, active resistance movement emerge in France.

The British experience of war differed from that of France and the Soviet Union, because both of these nations suffered __________.

Nazi occupation

In 1943, the foreign ministers of Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union reaffirmed the commitment to fight until _________.

the enemy surrendered unconditionally

The disappearance of unemployment in Britain was a natural result of _________.

total war

The Atlantic Charter can be seen as a continuation of the spirit of ________.

Versailles