Question 1

In what ways was the Nazi-Soviet Pact similar to the treaty that created the Axis?

Accepted Answer

It enabled the signers to engage freely in aggressive actions.

Question 2

Japan's invasion of Manchuria supports which conclusion?

Accepted Answer

Current methods of diplomacy were not stopping imperial aggression.

Question 3

Which statement identifies one cause for Hitler's popularity among the German people in the years before World War II?

Accepted Answer

He challenged the terms of the unpopular Treaty of Versailles.

Question 4

Which action best represents the policy of appeasement followed by Britain and France prior to the start of World War II?

Accepted Answer

Allowing Hitler to annex the Sudetenland as part of the Munich Agreement.

Question 5

Based on the information given, the words were most likely spoken by whom?

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill after the Dunkirk evacuation.

Question 6

What was the main reason the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?

Accepted Answer

They wanted to build a pacific empire without interference.

Question 7

Why did France surrender to Germany?

Accepted Answer

France was overrun by German and Italian forces.

Question 8

Which nation was the aggressor in the action described here?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 9

From this map, what can you infer about Germany's geographic position?

Accepted Answer

It began the war mostly surrounded by Allied countries.

Question 10

Which statement best summarizes the populations persecuted by the Nazis during the Holocaust?

Accepted Answer

A diverse group of minorities including Jews, Roma, the disabled, and ethnic Poles.

Question 11

Which statement best describes the historical significance of the Nazis' Final Solution?

Accepted Answer

It signaled an official shift toward what was later termed genocide.

Question 12

Which of the following is a reason why Western countries refused to accept more refugees in the late 1930s?

Accepted Answer

Western countries were burdened with the effects of the Great Depression.

Question 13

Critics of the Allied response to the Holocaust would most likely agree with which statement?

Accepted Answer

The number of civilian casualties in the war would have been reduced had the Allies accepted more refugees.

Question 14

The given headlines were most likely written about which world event?

Accepted Answer

D-Day.

Question 15

Who implemented the World War II military strategy described in this text?

Accepted Answer

General Douglas MacArthur.

Question 16

Which explains why women were able to find new job opportunities during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Many men were pressed into military service overseas.

Question 17

Which nation had the best natural geographic protection against German ground forces?

Accepted Answer

Britain.

Question 18

Which statement best describes an official justification for U.S. entry into World War II?

Accepted Answer

The United States provided economic aid to former allies at the start of the war, but became actively involved following an attack on its own soil.

Question 19

What event likely gave the United States more influence in post-war peace negotiations?

Accepted Answer

The dropping of atomic weapons.

Question 20

What was one result of the military operation described in the passage?

Accepted Answer

The Allies began to close in on Germany from both the east and west.

Question 21

Which fact about the United Nations vest reflects the inference that the Allies were given an unequal amount of power in decision making?

Accepted Answer

The five permanent members of the Security Council have the ability to veto any decision.

Question 22

Based on the historical evidence, which would most likely have occurred if the United States had chosen not to use atomic weapons?

Accepted Answer

The United States would have launched a costly ground invasion of Japan.

Question 23

Which of the following statements best describes early Nazi military success during WWII?

Accepted Answer

Nazi Germany conquered most of Europe and some of North Africa.

Question 24

Which of the following statements best describes the Allied nations' response to the Holocaust?

Accepted Answer

Allied nations considered it a refugee situation but later liberated the camps.

Question 25

What was the significance of the Nuremberg Trials?

Accepted Answer

They helped discredit totalitarian and military-based regimes.

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