APWH Chapter 36 Multiple Choice Stem Question Study Guide

The height of Japanese atrocity in China was reached at the Rape of __________________

Nanjing.

The Guomindang, during World War II, was __________________.

kept alive by moving inland to Chongquin.

The Tripartite Pact brought together __________________.

Japan, Germany, and Italy.

The Italian fascists used which war as an excuse to intervene and gain valuable military experience?

Spanish Civil War.

The weakness of the League of Nations was revealed in its inability to take any substantial action in response to the Italian invasion of

Ethiopia.

Adolf Hitler always spoke of the "November crime," which was the _________________.

signing of the 1918 armistice.

In 1938, Germany sent troops into what country and forced its leaders to accept the "Anschluss"?

Austria.

In the wake of the Munich Conference, which was ___________________________, what leader proposed that the meeting had ensured "peace in our time"?

marked high point of appeasement?; Neville Chamberlain.

While the Russian-German Treaty of Nonagression was on the surface a nonaggression treaty, it had secret stipulations that spelled out

German control of western Poland and Lithuania.

World War II first began with __________________. The European part of World War II began with the ____________________.

Japanese attacks on China; the German invasion of Poland.

The German "Blitzkrieg" referred to _______________________.

the "lightning war".

After the fall of France in 1940, the only European country left to fight Germany was ______________________.

Britain.

In the Battle of Britain, the Germans hoped to defeat the English ____________________.

almost solely through air attacks led by Luftuaffe?

Operation Barbarossa was the _________________.

German plan for invasion of Soviet Union

Hitler's comment "You only have to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come down" was a reference to which of the following powers?

Soviet Union.

In December 1941, the world power that Hitler was referring to gained two new allies in their struggle to defeat the German invasion of their country: a severe winter and _______________.

the United States.

The Japanese goal in the bombing of Pearl Harbor was to

destroy American naval policy.

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, which was centered around the slogan ______________, was organized by the ____________________.

"Asia for Asians"; Japanese.

The key to the Allied victories in Europe and Asia was

the entry of the Soviet Union and the United States into war.

The Normandy invasion

overwhelmed the Germans and changed the war towards Allies winning.

The U.S. victory in the Pacific that turned the tide against the Japanese was _____________________.

the Battle at Midway.

The U.S. secret weapon in the Pacific campaign was ____________________.

a code-breaking operation known as "magic".

In the Battle of Okinawa, the Japanese introduced ________________________.

kamikaze.

During the battle of Okinawa,

__________________________________.

the Japanese flew 1900 kamikaze missions and killed more than 5,000 U.S. soldiers.

The Japanese finally surrendered in August 1945

when the United States used the atomic bomb against Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet Union declared war on Japan.

At the Wannsee Conference, _________________.

fifteen leading Nazi bureaucrats gathered to discuss the final solution.

The largest of the Nazi death camps was _____________________.

Auschwitz.

"Comfort women" were

prostitutes.

The German Democratic Republic __________________.

was formed out of the Soviet zone of occupation.

In the wake of the Berlin blockade and airlift, the U.S., British, and French zones of occupation in western Germany were ______________________.

combined to form the Federal Republic of Germany.

The Warsaw Pact

was formed in response to NATO.

An active policy of de-Stalinization was begun in 1956 by ____________________.

Nikita Khrushchev.

Alexander Dubček's "Prague Spring"

_________________.

promised "socialism with a human face".

The "Brezhnev doctrine" __________________, while the "policy of détente" means __________________.

reserved the right of the Soviet Union to invade any socialist country; a reduction in hostility between nations.