1/15/25 global 10 test


By 1939, which 3 countries were not democratic?

Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union

2

Extreme nationalism was not feared by which class in Italy during Mussolini's rise to power?

the middle class

3

Peasants were allowed to sell their produce openly in whose New Economic Policy?

Lenin's

4

The goal of whose five year plan was to increase the production of heavy industry?

Stalin's

5

Ukraine had peasants specifically targeted during what?

Stalin's Terror Famine

6

What 2 groups were specifically targeted by Hitler in Mein Kampf?

Jews and Communists

7

In 1933, President Hindenberg designated who as his Chancellor?

Hitler

8

Hitler incorrectly associated which term with Ancient Greece and Rome?

Aryan

9

Ideology and terror were the 2 base principles of what group?

the SS

10

Large public works projects, rearmament and five year plans where not the key to solving which country's economic problems?

Germany's

11

Reoccupation of the Rhineland by Hitler in 1936 was a direct violation of what treaty?

the Treaty of Versailles

12

Czechoslovakia, Poland and Belgium were not countries annexed by Hitler in 1938 in pursuit of what concept?

Anschluss

13

At the Munich conference, Western leaders did what?

Appeased Hitler

14

Hitler and Stalin signed what in 1939?

a non aggression pact

15

What was desirable to the Japanese because it provided valuable natural resources?

Manchuria

16

After the fall of France in the summer of 1940, Spain, Belgium and Switzerland were what kind of nations in western Europe?

Either neutral or under Nazi control

17

What Acts hampered FDR's ability to lead the US into WWII by creating a foreign policy of isolationism?

the Neutrality Acts

18

Stalingrad was ordered by Hitler to be captured when?

first

19

The US destroyed Japan's aircraft carrier fleet in what turning point battle in the Pacific?

the Battle of the Midway

20

Total warfare, siege warfare and guerrilla warfare were not the US strategy in which area?

the Pacific

21

The war against Germany was known as the Great Patriotic War to who?

the Soviets

22

Was the percentage of German and Japanese women employed in industrial work lesser or greater than the percentage of Soviet women employed in factories during the war?

lesser

23

London was the first city to experience sustained bombing of what population?

its civilian population

24

The SS was the organization that Hitler assigned the responsibility of carrying out what?

his "final solution" or the elimination of European Jews

25

Poland had what percentage of its Jewish population killed by Nazis?

90%

26

Italy was where the Allies attacked who after the fall of Tunisia?

the Axis Powers

27

Normandy was the landing zone during what?

D-Day

28

Okinawa was the last major battle in the Pacific preceding the US doing what?

using atomic bombs

29

Was the imposition of reparations on Germany an agreement reached by the Big Three at Yalta?

No

30

Churchill described the Soviet Union's domination of Eastern Europe in a warning to Americans as what?

an iron curtain

1

Benito Mussolini

founder of Italy's Fascist Party

2

Joseph Stalin

dictator of the Soviet Union

3

Francisco Franco

fascist leader of Spain

4

Victor Emmanuel III

overthrown king of Italy

5

Il Duce

the leader

6

Heinrich Himmler

head of the SS

7

Joseph Goebbels

Minister of Propaganda

8

Fuhrer

the leader

9

Reichstag

German legislature

10

Brownshirts

Hitler's violent supporters

11

Neville Chamberlain

promised "peace in our time"

12

Pu Yi

puppet emperor of Manchukuo

13

Chiang Kai-shek

leader of the Guomindang

14

Haile Selassie

emperor of Ethiopia

15

Luftwaffe

German air force

16

Blitzkrieg

lightning warfare

17

Vichy

Nazi puppet government in France

18

Dunkirk

site of massive Allied evacuation

19

Barbarossa

code name for German invasion of Russia

20

Rommel

the Desert Fox

21

Mobilization

to prepare for war

22

Collaborator

to assist the enemy

23

Auschwitz

deadliest concentration camp

24

Genocide

the systematic killing of a people

25

Slavs

ethnic group targeted by Hitler

26

Dwight Eisenhower

Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe

27

Harry Truman

US president at the end of WWII

28

Hirohito

Emperor of Japan

29

Tehran

site of the first summit of Big Three

30

Overlord

codename for D-Day

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