HIST 112- World Civilization II Chapter_25 Quiz Answered

1. What political, economic, and/or social conditions enabled the rise of Hitler in Germany? How did Hitler take advantage of Germany´s problems in seizing political power?

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Hitler and Nazi Germany

2. What was "fascism" and what was its appeal to so many in the years following World War I?

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The Birth of Fascism

3. Compare the roles of women in the war economies of the major combatants in World War II. How do you explain the difference?

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Mobilizing the People: Three Examples

4. Compare the authoritarianism of Stalin's Soviet Union with that of Hitler's Germany. What are the similarities and what are the differences between the two regimes? Was one more “totalitarian” than the other?

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The Retreat from Democracy: Did Europe Have Totalitarian States? Hitler and Nazi Germany The Stalinist Era in the Soviet Union

5. Why were militarists able to gain and exert so much power in Japan in the 1930s? Did their control of government make the Pacific phase of World War II inevitable? Explain.

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The Rise of Militarism in Japan

6. Explain both the long-term and immediate causes of World War II.

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The Path to War

7. 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 Turning Point of the War, 1942–1943 The Last Years of the War

8. 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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The Frontline Civilians: The Bombing of Cities The Costs of World War II

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

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The Turning Point of the War, 1942–1943 The Last Years of the War

10. How did Hitler attempt to implement his New Order in Europe? To what degree was it effective and in line with his ideological goals?

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The New Order in Europe The Holocaust

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

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The New Order in Asia

12. Describe the Holocaust in terms of its most significant events and participants. Which groups were targeted, and why?

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The Holocaust

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

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The Allied War Conferences

14. What was the "Cold War," and was it inevitable? Why or why not?

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The Allied War Conferences

15. 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 and the European Colonies: Decolonization

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

16. totalitarian state

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The Retreat from Democracy: Did Europe Have Totalitarian States?

17. Benito Mussolini's Fascio di Combattimento

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The Birth of Fascism

18. Beer Hall Putsch

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Hitler and Nazi Germany

19. Adolf Hitler and Mein Kampf

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Hitler and Nazi Germany

20. National Socialist German Workers' Party/Nazis

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Hitler and Nazi Germany

21. Lebensraum

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Hitler and Nazi Germany

22. SA/Sturmabteilung

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Hitler and Nazi Germany

23. the Enabling Act

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Hitler and Nazi Germany

24. fascism

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Retreat from Democracy: Dictatorial Regimes

25. Triumph of the Will

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Film & History: Triumph of the Will (1934)

26. Kristallnacht

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Hitler and Nazi Germany

27. SS/Schutzstaffel

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Hitler and Nazi Germany

28. collectivization of agriculture

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The Stalinist Era in the Soviet Union

29. Five-Year Plans

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The Stalinist Era in the Soviet Union

30. Old Bolsheviks and the purges

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The Stalinist Era in the Soviet Union

31. "Asia for the Asians"

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The Rise of Militarism in Japan

32. invasion of Ethiopia

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The Path to War in Europe

33. Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact

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The Path to War in Europe

34. Heinrich Himmler

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Hitler and Nazi Germany The New Order in Europe Heinrich Himmler: “We Had the Moral Right”

35. the Sudetenland

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The Path to War in Europe

36. the Munich conference

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The Path to War in Europe Opposing Viewpoints: The Munich Conference

37. Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact

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The Path to War in Europe

38. Chiang Kai-Shek

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The Path to War in Asia

39. Manchukuo

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The Path to War in Asia

40. "Monroe Doctrine for Asia"

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The Path to War in Asia

41. conquest of Nanjing, December 1937

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The Path to War in Asia

42. Blitzkrieg

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World War II

43. Vichy France

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Europe at War

44. the Grand Alliance

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The Turning Point of the War, 1942–1943

45. "unconditional surrender"

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The Turning Point of the War, 1942–1943

46. Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

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Japan at War

47. Erwin Rommel and El Alamein

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The Turning Point of the War, 1942–1943

48. Battle of Stalingrad

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The Turning Point of the War, 1942–1943

49. Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway

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The Turning Point of the War, 1942–1943

50. Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944

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The Last Years of the War

51. Franklin Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman

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Japan at War The Last Years of the War The Allied War Conferences

52. Einsatzgruppen

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The Holocaust

53. Final Solution

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The Holocaust

54. Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

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Japan at War The New Order in Asia

55. the Blitz

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The Frontline Civilians: The Bombing of Cities

56. Cologne and the Dresden raids

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The Frontline Civilians: The Bombing of Cities

57. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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The Frontline Civilians: The Bombing of Cities

58. decolonization

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World War II and the European Colonies: Decolonization

59. Allied strategic bombing survey

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The Frontline Civilians: The Bombing of Cities

60. Joseph Stalin

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The Stalinist Era in the Soviet Union The Path to War in Europe Mobilizing the People: Three Examples The Allied War Conferences

61. Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences

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The Allied War Conferences

62. free elections in Eastern Europe

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The Allied War Conferences

63. United Nations

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The Allied War Conferences

64. Winston Churchill and the "Iron Curtain"

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The Allied War Conferences

65. Cold War

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The Allied War Conferences

66. “comfort women”

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The New Order in Asia

67. “displaced persons”

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The Costs of World War II

68. division of Germany and Berlin

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The Allied War Conferences

69. Which leader first used the term “totalitarian”?

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Benito Mussolini

b.

Mao Zedong

c.

Francisco Franco

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Adolf Hitler

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General Franco

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The Retreat from Democracy: Did Europe Have Totalitarian States?

70. Which statement best characterizes totalitarian states in the 1930s?

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They were democratic and championed individualism and democratic freedoms.

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They were all-compassing, authoritarian dictatorships that subordinated individual needs, and employed police power and mass propaganda to achieve total control.

c.

They limited their authoritarian dictates to the political and economic aspects of the state's affairs, in an effort to have freer social and cultural choices serve as means of placating the masses.

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They wanted the masses to rule in all aspects of governance.

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They depended upon the appeasement policies of the Eastern democracies.

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b

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The Retreat from Democracy: Did Europe Have Totalitarian States?

71. Mussolini became prime minister of Italy