Exam 17: The Second World War

When the war in the West finally did begin in 1940,the Germans nearly destroyed the combined British and French armies,but a great number of the British and French soldiers escaped in a massive evacuation from:

How did Nazi efforts to end the Great Depression in Germany contribute to the militarization of Europe?

Appeasement seamed a viable option to Fascist and nationalist governments in the 1930s.Arguments included all except:

To support the Spanish republican government and to protest the German bombing of a Basque town in April 1937,Pablo Picasso painted:

In 1942,the United States won crucial victories in the Coral Sea and at Midway,a battle fought at sea and in the air by aircraft flown form carriers.

How did Stalin respond to the settlement at Munich?

Although German scientists were the first to create a nuclear chain reaction,the first nuclear reactor,which was needed to build an atomic bomb,was constructed at the:

After a policy of appeasement failed to curb Hitler's actions on the Continent,the ruling British government was replaced by a coalition under the leadership of:

Although all of Western Europe had fallen to German arms by the summer of 1941,Hitler's ultimate goal lay to the east where he next attacked under the code name "Operation:

What factors combined to change Russian fortunes in the war after 1941?

The most important "second front" opened by the Allies in Europe occurred in June 1944 with the:

Early German advances 1936 to 1939 in correct sequence included which of the following?

"Island hopping" was a removed,yet brutal,form of warfare in which the American navy destroyed Japan's network of island bases throughout the Pacific by aerial bombings.

How did Neville Chamberlain presume that the Munich agreement would satisfy Hitler's ambitions?

The Battle of Britain:

Industrially,the Allies had several advantages over the Axis powers,not the least of which was:

Hitler's stated objective in the 1930s was to reunite all ethnic Germans inside his "Third German Reich," and the first move to accomplish this objective was the:

Several consequences of the Great Depression of the 1930s led to the Second World War.Among these was:

In the summer of 1943,the largest battle of the Second World War,and perhaps of all history,was fought at:

Which of the following was NOT a major contributing factor to the eventual Soviet victory against Germany?