Global II Quizzes - Quiz 9a - World War II

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1 :

This World War II cartoon is showing the relationship between climate and the

	inability of Nazi forces to defeat the Soviet Union
	success of Allied troops after D-day
	efforts by Allied troops to control Berlin
	casualties suffered by the Soviet Union

2 Hitler believed his superior weapons and Blitzkrieg would defeat the Soviet Union unlike

	Napoleon who was also caught in the Russian winter and lost his army
	France who defeated Germany in World War I
	Great Britain who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
	Mussolini who conquered Ethiopia

3 The German tactic of Blitzkrieg means?

	appeasment
	lightening war
	the Final Solution
	the Iron Curtain

4 :

Which aspects of World War II home-front culture do these 1940s posters reflect?

	national pride and employment opportunities
	mobilization and draft
	military expenditures and regulations
	conserving resources and sacrificing

5 What resource was not being sold to Japan from the United States?

	natural gas
	steel
	oil
	rice

6 Why did Japan need to use imperialism against other nations and/or regions?

	Japan had communist intentions
	Japan had limited natural resources
	Japan sold all of their manufactured goods to Europe
	Japan sold technology to China

7

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• Japan resigns from the League of Nations, 1933
• Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis formed, 1936
• Japan invades China, 1937
• United States places embargo on scrap iron, steel, and oil exports to Japan, 1941

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Which event occurred immediately after this series of developments?

	Manchuria became a Japanese protectorate
	Pearl Harbor was attacked
	The Japanese fleet was destroyed
	The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

8 The governments in Germany and Italy during the time of these events were

	aligned with Japan
	non-militaristic
	democracies
	aligned with Great Britain

9 Japan was using the policy of?

	appeasement to stop further American aggression
	imperialism to search for raw materials such as rubber, oil, and iron
	the Final Solution to eliminate Jews from Japan
	apartheid to segregate black Japanese citizens from white Japanese

10 :

. . . “You should take steps now to cease military resistance.

Otherwise, we shall resolutely employ this bomb and all our other

superior weapons to promptly and forcefully end the war.” . .

This paragraph from a 1945 Allied leaflet warned the

	Czechs of a German invasion
	Americans in Hawaii of a Japanese attack
	Koreans of a Russian invasion
	Japanese civilians of a United States attack

11 What event was the leaflet warning about

	Hiroshima Nuclear Attack
	Bombing of Pearl Harbor
	The Battle of Midway
	The Battle of Iwo Jima

12 What other city was a target of a similar attack?

	Manila, Philippines
	Dresden, Germany
	Nagasaki, Japan
	Tokyo, Japan

13 :

The World War II military action shown on this map was significant because it

	took the pressure off the war in the Pacific
	led directly to the war crimes trials in Nuremberg
	caused Germany to resort to unrestricted submarine warfare
	forced Germany to fight the Allies on eastern and western fronts

14 What was the common name of the invasion of France on June 6th, 1944, by the Allies during WWII?

	Normandy
	Pearl Harbor
	Battle of the Bulge
	D-Day

15 The invasion of Northern France in 1944 was significant because?

	Germany was going to invade Great Britain
	Hitler was already defeated
	The German V-2 Rockets were stationed near this area, and needed to be destroyed to prevent more British civilian deaths
	The atomic bomb was to be used on Germany