Question 1

How and why did World War II play a key role in bringing an end to the era of European colonialism in Asia and Africa?

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World War II played a key role in bringi

Question 2

Stalin's first two five-year plans

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A)  moved sixty million people from European to Asian Russia. 
B)  transformed Russia into an agricultural country. 
C)  emphasized the production of consumer goods. 
D)  resulted in large increases in the nation's heavy industry and oil production. 
E)  reduced the number of industrial cities in the Urals and Siberia. 
A)  moved sixty million people from European to Asian Russia. 
B)  transformed Russia into an agricultural country. 
C)  emphasized the production of consumer goods. 
D)  resulted in large increases in the nation's heavy industry and oil production. 
E)  reduced the number of industrial cities in the Urals and Siberia.

Question 3

Is it fair to say that World War II was often as destructive and terrifying for civilians on the home front as it was for soldiers on the battlefield? Why or why not?

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Yes, it is fair to say that World War II

Question 4

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Cold War

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The Cold War was a period of geopolitica

Question 5

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Final Solution

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The term "Final Solution" refers to the

Question 6

Which military news reports would have been welcomed by Hitler?

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A)  The results of the Battle of Britain 
B)  The results of the battle of El Alamein. 
C)  The results of the Blitzkrieg against Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. 
D)  The results of the battle of Stalingrad 
E)  The results of the battle of Kursk 
A)  The results of the Battle of Britain 
B)  The results of the battle of El Alamein. 
C)  The results of the Blitzkrieg against Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. 
D)  The results of the battle of Stalingrad 
E)  The results of the battle of Kursk

Question 7

At the Allied conferences of 1945, the most divisive issue was the American plan to organize the United Nations after the war.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the two Japan

Question 9

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences

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The Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferenc

Question 10

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
"unconditional surrender"

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The term "unconditional surrender" refer

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Einsatzgruppen

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The term "Einsatzgruppen" refers to the

Question 12

Which statement best describes Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy?

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A)  It gave him total control over all aspects of Italian life. 
B)  It achieved greater power, in repression and media control, than the dictatorships in Germany and the Soviet Union did. 
C)  It tried to involve all Italian socialists in a program of indoctrination, but achieved only limited success in that area. 
D)  It promoted an egalitarian view of women´s roles in society. 
E)  It was strongly supported by business and large landlord groups. 
A)  It gave him total control over all aspects of Italian life. 
B)  It achieved greater power, in repression and media control, than the dictatorships in Germany and the Soviet Union did. 
C)  It tried to involve all Italian socialists in a program of indoctrination, but achieved only limited success in that area. 
D)  It promoted an egalitarian view of women´s roles in society. 
E)  It was strongly supported by business and large landlord groups.

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Beer Hall Putsch

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The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed coup a

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway

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The Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway

Question 15

The Nazi program of annihilating racial "inferiors" was focused solely on the Jews.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Did the entrance of the United States into World War II, coming about six months after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, make the defeat of Germany, Japan and Italy inevitable? Why or why not?

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The answer of Did the entrance of the United States...

Question 17

At the Munich Conference of 1938, the

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A)  British and the French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland. 
B)  British prime minister refused to agree to the demands of Adolf Hitler. 
C)  policy of appeasement successfully put a stop to German expansion in Europe. 
D)  eventual Nazi control of all of Czechoslovakia was avoided. 
E)  British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave his support to the policy of appeasement. 
A)  British and the French representatives allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland. 
B)  British prime minister refused to agree to the demands of Adolf Hitler. 
C)  policy of appeasement successfully put a stop to German expansion in Europe. 
D)  eventual Nazi control of all of Czechoslovakia was avoided. 
E)  British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave his support to the policy of appeasement.

Question 18

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
"Asia for the Asians"

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"Asia for the Asians" was a slogan and p

Question 19

What was the crucial year in determining the outcome of World War II, and why?

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The crucial year in determining the outc

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
the Enabling Act

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The Enabling Act was a law passed by the

Exam 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War Ii

How and why did World War II play a key role in bringing an end to the era of European colonialism in Asia and Africa?

Stalin's first two five-year plans

Is it fair to say that World War II was often as destructive and terrifying for civilians on the home front as it was for soldiers on the battlefield? Why or why not?

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Cold War

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Final Solution

Which military news reports would have been welcomed by Hitler?

At the Allied conferences of 1945, the most divisive issue was the American plan to organize the United Nations after the war.

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. "unconditional surrender"

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Einsatzgruppen

Which statement best describes Mussolini's Fascist rule in Italy?

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Beer Hall Putsch

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway

The Nazi program of annihilating racial "inferiors" was focused solely on the Jews.

Did the entrance of the United States into World War II, coming about six months after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, make the defeat of Germany, Japan and Italy inevitable? Why or why not?

At the Munich Conference of 1938, the

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. "Asia for the Asians"

What was the crucial year in determining the outcome of World War II, and why?

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. the Enabling Act

Early Humans and the First Civilizations

Ancient India

China in Antiquity

The Civilization of the Greeks

The Roman World Empire

The Americas

Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam

Early Civilizations in Africa

The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia

The Flowering of Traditional China

The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

The Making of Europe

The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West

New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market

Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building

The Muslim Empires

The East Asian World

The West on the Eve of a New World Order

The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

The High Tide of Imperialism

Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939

East and West in the Grip of the Cold War

Brave New World: Communism on Trial

Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

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