Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Manchukuo was a puppet state in Northeas

Question 2

The event that drew the United States fully into World War II was the

Accepted Answer

A)  Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 
B)  Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. 
C)  fall of France. 
D)  conquest and division of Poland by German and Russian forces. 
E)  Japanese invasion of Manchuria. 
A)  Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 
B)  Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. 
C)  fall of France. 
D)  conquest and division of Poland by German and Russian forces. 
E)  Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

Question 3

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
conquest of Nanjing, December 1937

Accepted Answer

The conquest of Nanjing in December 1937

Question 4

At the Yalta Conference

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A)  De Gaulle demanded equal industrial reparation payments for all victor nations. 
B)  Stalin agreed to "free elections" in eastern Europe. 
C)  Truman received word of the successful testing of an atomic bomb. 
D)  Churchill made his "Iron Curtain" speech. 
E)  Truman issued his Truman Doctrine. 
A)  De Gaulle demanded equal industrial reparation payments for all victor nations. 
B)  Stalin agreed to "free elections" in eastern Europe. 
C)  Truman received word of the successful testing of an atomic bomb. 
D)  Churchill made his "Iron Curtain" speech. 
E)  Truman issued his Truman Doctrine.

Question 5

Which of these paths towards modernization did Vladimir Lenin support?

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A)  Modernization was brought about by an independent urban merchant class. 
B)  Modernization was brought about by traditional elites in the absence of a strong middle class. 
C)  Modernization was brought about by the end of agriculture. 
D)  Modernization was brought about by the ruthless military management of the economy. 
E)  Modernization was brought about by the destruction of private property. 
A)  Modernization was brought about by an independent urban merchant class. 
B)  Modernization was brought about by traditional elites in the absence of a strong middle class. 
C)  Modernization was brought about by the end of agriculture. 
D)  Modernization was brought about by the ruthless military management of the economy. 
E)  Modernization was brought about by the destruction of private property.

Question 6

The Nazi Party

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A)  had originally been called the Labor Party. 
B)  had 800,000 members by 1932. 
C)  gave qualified support to communism until 1935. 
D)  favored collectivization until 1934. 
E)  made class-based appeals in elections. 
A)  had originally been called the Labor Party. 
B)  had 800,000 members by 1932. 
C)  gave qualified support to communism until 1935. 
D)  favored collectivization until 1934. 
E)  made class-based appeals in elections.

Question 7

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Adolf Hitler and Mein Kampf

Accepted Answer

Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi

Question 8

The Nuremberg Laws of 1935

Accepted Answer

A)  codified the process of collectivization. 
B)  sought to create racial homogeneity of Nazi Germany by expelling all Asians. 
C)  institutionalized an annual kristallnacht celebration at the end of June. 
D)  deprived German Jews of citizenship and legal rights. 
E)  marked the Nazi renunciation of all anti-Semitic policies in Germany. 
A)  codified the process of collectivization. 
B)  sought to create racial homogeneity of Nazi Germany by expelling all Asians. 
C)  institutionalized an annual kristallnacht celebration at the end of June. 
D)  deprived German Jews of citizenship and legal rights. 
E)  marked the Nazi renunciation of all anti-Semitic policies in Germany.

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

Fascism is a political ideology and move

Question 10

One of Hitler´s key lieutenants, who commanded the SS, was

Accepted Answer

A)  Paul von Hindenburg. 
B)  Heinrich Himmler. 
C)  Leni Riefenstahl. 
D)  Hermann Göring. 
E)  Joseph Goebbels. 
A)  Paul von Hindenburg. 
B)  Heinrich Himmler. 
C)  Leni Riefenstahl. 
D)  Hermann Göring. 
E)  Joseph Goebbels.

Question 11

Hitler solved the economic problems facing Germany in the Great Depression in large part by

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A)  pursuing a laissez-faire economic policy. 
B)  giving "pump-priming" grants to local and regional governments. 
C)  spending vast amounts of money on rearmament. 
D)  pursuing a policy of personal involvement in all aspects of the economy. 
E)  instituting state ownership of the major industrial corporations. 
A)  pursuing a laissez-faire economic policy. 
B)  giving "pump-priming" grants to local and regional governments. 
C)  spending vast amounts of money on rearmament. 
D)  pursuing a policy of personal involvement in all aspects of the economy. 
E)  instituting state ownership of the major industrial corporations.

Question 12

The totalitarian state was best exemplified by Mussolini's Italy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 was facilitated by Hitler's nonaggression pact with

Accepted Answer

A)  Petain's France. 
B)  Churchill's Great Britain. 
C)  Tojo's Imperial Japan. 
D)  Mussolini's Italy. 
E)  Stalin's Soviet Union. 
A)  Petain's France. 
B)  Churchill's Great Britain. 
C)  Tojo's Imperial Japan. 
D)  Mussolini's Italy. 
E)  Stalin's Soviet Union.

Question 14

Why did Japan ultimately fail in its campaign of "Asia for the Asians"?

Accepted Answer

Japan's campaign of "Asia for the Asians

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

The term "Monroe Doctrine for Asia" refe

Question 16

What were the most significant ideas and outcomes of the conferences at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam?

Accepted Answer

The conferences at Tehran, Yalta, and Po

Question 17

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Erwin Rommel and El Alamein

Accepted Answer

Erwin Rommel was a German general during

Question 18

The Great East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was

Accepted Answer

A)  America's promise to improve the living standards of the peoples of China, Japan, and elsewhere. 
B)  Japan's declaration that East Asia would become a self-sufficient economic community. 
C)  the promise by Great Britain that India would be given its independence. 
D)  China's attempt to replace capitalism with communism. 
E)  the United Nations' attempt to rebuilt Japan after World War II. 
A)  America's promise to improve the living standards of the peoples of China, Japan, and elsewhere. 
B)  Japan's declaration that East Asia would become a self-sufficient economic community. 
C)  the promise by Great Britain that India would be given its independence. 
D)  China's attempt to replace capitalism with communism. 
E)  the United Nations' attempt to rebuilt Japan after World War II.

Question 19

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
National Socialist German Workers' Party/Nazis

Accepted Answer

The National Socialist German Workers' P

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. 
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Accepted Answer

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphe

Exam 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War Ii

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

The event that drew the United States fully into World War II was the

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. conquest of Nanjing, December 1937

At the Yalta Conference

Which of these paths towards modernization did Vladimir Lenin support?

The Nazi Party

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Adolf Hitler and Mein Kampf

The Nuremberg Laws of 1935

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

One of Hitler´s key lieutenants, who commanded the SS, was

Hitler solved the economic problems facing Germany in the Great Depression in large part by

The totalitarian state was best exemplified by Mussolini's Italy.

The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 was facilitated by Hitler's nonaggression pact with

Why did Japan ultimately fail in its campaign of "Asia for the Asians"?

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

What were the most significant ideas and outcomes of the conferences at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam?

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Erwin Rommel and El Alamein

The Great East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. National Socialist German Workers' Party/Nazis

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance. Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

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

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