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Mrs. Gates - 11th Grade U.S. History
Chapter 22 Test
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History
11th Grade
05/20/2013

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What is fascism? Who were the two most important fascist leaders?
Definition
See p. 512
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What is appeasement? Why did it not work?
Definition
See p. 513-514
Term
Give three reasons the United States stayed out of World War II for so long.
Definition
See p. 517
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In what ways was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor a failure?
Definition
See p. 520-521
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What was the turning point of the Pacific War? Why?
Definition
See p. 522
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List three special measures the United States took on the home front to prepare for war.
Definition
See p. 522-523
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What is the significance of Casablanca? Yalta? Potsdam?
Definition
See p. 524, 530-532
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Hitler's Main Kampf proposed all of the following escept to

-strengthen the League of Nations

-end democracy in Germany

-eliminate all Jews

-create a new German order

Definition
strengthen the League of Nations
Term

Which term is not associated with fascism?

-individualism

-nationalism

-militarism

-totalitarianism

Definition
individualism
Term
What African nation did Italy conquer in 1935?
Definition
Ethiopia
Term
What was the first act of naked aggression in the 1930s?
Definition
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Term

Which of these events occurred first?

-German occupation of the Sudetenland

-German occupation of the Rhineland

-German unification with Austria

-German invasion of Poland

Definition
German occupation of the Rhineland
Term
What was the German Anschluss?
Definition
unification with Austria
Term
What country was forced to give Germany some of its territory as a result of the Munich Conference?
Definition
Czechoslovakia
Term
The German invasion of what nation sparked World War II?
Definition
Poland
Term
Which nation was last to fall to Germany in the spring of 1940?
Definition
France
Term
What type of warfare was the Battle of Britain?
Definition
airplane battles over England
Term
Which country was never invaded by German soldiers?
Definition
Great Britain
Term
Which country did German soldiers invade but never force to surrender?
Definition
Soviet Union
Term
What major factor kept the United States out of the early stages of World War II?
Definition
resentment over Allied failure to pay war debts
Term
What was the main provision of the Neutrality Act of 1939?
Definition
Warring nations must purchase weaponry from the United States on a cash basis and carry it in their own ships.
Term
What American hero became a leading spokesman for isolationism?
Definition
Charles Lindbergh
Term

Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" included all of the following except freedom

-from fear

-from want

-of opportunity

-of worship

Definition
of opportunity
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What was most significant about the Atlantic Charter?
Definition
list of Allied war aims
Term
One of Roosevelt's responses to Japan's conquest of French Indochina was to...
Definition
place an oil embargo on Japan
Term
Who was the American Army commander in the Far East?
Definition
Douglas MacArthur
Term
What event brought America into World War II?
Definition
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Term
In what year did the United States enter World War II?
Definition
1941
Term

Which of these events occurred last?

-America's entry into the war

-Battle of Britain

-German invasion of Russia

-fall of France

Definition
America's entry into the war
Term
Who was America's admiral at the Battle of Midway?
Definition
Chester W. Nimitz
Term

What is not one of the measures America took to support the war effort at home?

-America First committees

-rationing

-recycling

-War Production Board

Definition
America First committees
Term

The war had all of the following effects on the American home from except an increase

-of women on the assembly line

-in taxes

-in national debt

-in consumer goods

Definition
in consumer goods
Term
What did "Rosie the Riveter" symbolize during World War II?
Definition
working women
Term
Who was the famous German "Desert Fox"?
Definition
Erwin Rommel
Term
Where did American forced first fight the Germans?
Definition
North Africa
Term
What British commander helped to defeat the Germans in North Africa?
Definition
Bernard Montgomery
Term
To what desperate measure did the Japanese resort beginning with the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
Definition
kamikaze pilots
Term
What island did American forces capture as a final preparation for the invasion of Japan?
Definition
Okinawa
Term
What issue was at the top of Roosevelt's agenda at Yalta?
Definition
formation of an international organization for peace
Term
What was the triple alliance of dictatorships during World War II called?
Definition
Axis
Term
What country signed a secret nonagression pact with Germany?
Definition
Soviet Union
Term
In what year did World War II begin?
Definition
1939
Term
What country did Germany invade in Operation Barbarossa?
Definition
Soviet Union
Term
What act empowered the president to supply any Allied nation on almost any terms he wished?
Definition
Lend-Lease Act
Term
What agreement between Churchill and roosevelt listed their "common principles" and goals in the war effort?
Definition
Atlantic Charter
Term
According to Roosevelt, what date (day, month, year) would "live in infamy"?
Definition
December 7, 1941
Term
what government organization controlled the conversion of American industry to military production?
Definition
War Production Board
Term
In which section of northern France did the Allied Expeditionary Force land in 1944?
Definition
Normandy
Term
To how many terms was Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president of the United States?
Definition
four
Term
What secret weapon brought the War in the Pacific to an early end?
Definition
atomic bomb
Term

Yes or No

 

The Nazi party opposed democracy as a "weakening influence."

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

The League of Nations successfully stopped Italian aggression through economic sanctions.

Definition
No
Term

Yes or No

 

Japan Launches a full-scale attack on China before Germany ever invaded Poland.

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

At least twenty million Russians died as a direct or indirect result of Stalin's agricultural reforms.

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

Appeasement was a great success.

Definition
No
Term

Yes or No

 

The Soviets signed a nonaggression pact with Germany because they shared common political viewpoints.

Definition
No
Term

Yes or No

 

The German blitzkrieg became bogged down in Poland for almost two years.

Definition
No
Term

Yes or No

 

Hitler broke his nonaggression pact less than two years after signing it.

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

The Allies resented America's demands for repayment of war debts.

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

America's Neutrality Acts of 1937 and 1939 hurt the Allies more than the Germans because Germany was unable to buy American supplies anyway.

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

Congress passed America's first peacetime draft in 1940 to prepare for the possibility of war.

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

Roosevelt promised during the election of 1940, "Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars."

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

Roosevelt remained stritly neutral in the early years of the war because he did not want to anger Hitler.

Definition
No
Term

Yes or No

 

During World War II the United States placed some 120,000 Japanese-Americans in detention camps without ever charging them with any crimes.

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

The war in the Pacific turned in America's favor with the Battle of Midway.

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

Roosevelt opposed raising taxes to support the war effort.

Definition
No
Term

Yes or No

 

Although the American invasion of Italy began as a success, it became bogged down in northern Italy.

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

D-day, the greatest invasion in history, was a crucial success for the Allies.

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

Although the American invasion of France began as a success, it became bogged down in central France.

Definition
No
Term

Yes or No

 

The Battle of the Bulge was an important Nazi success.

Definition
No
Term

Yes or No

 

Many Japanese soldiers preferred to kill themselves than surrender.

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

Germany was defeated before Japan.

Definition
Yes
Term

Yes or No

 

The dropping of atomic bombs on Japan may have actually saved lives because it kept the United States from invading the Japanese mainland.

Definition
Yes
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