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The Western Experience, 8/e

Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The Nightmare: World War II

Multiple Choice


1	Hitler's peaceful diplomatic successes in the two years leading up to the war included
		A)	the Anschluss, or annexation, of Austria, which had long been a goal of German nationalists.
		B)	the annexation of the Sudetenland, the ethnically German border region of Czechoslovakia.
		C)	the occupation of Czechoslovakia and part of Lithuania, despite the fact that neither had German ethnics.
		D)	the reabsorption of Danzig, the German city that had been made independent to give Poland a port.


2	Britain and France tried to appease rather than resist Germany for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
		A)	they had no way of knowing that Hitler glorified war and hoped to create a new German empire.
		B)	they hoped that if German's "legitimate" complaints were satisfied, Hitler would be satisfied.
		C)	they feared another war, remembering the carnage of World War I.
		D)	they needed time to rearm, in case worse came to worst.


3	Stalin concluded an alliance with Hitler because
		A)	he was an unscrupulous dictator.
		B)	Britain and France had put him off.
		C)	he was a crafty Communist.
		D)	it was part of his long-term plan to conquer the world.


4	In the first two years of war, Germany overran all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	Poland.
		B)	Denmark and Norway.
		C)	Holland, Belgium, and France.
		D)	Yugoslavia, Greece, Crete, and the Soviet Union.


5	The German victories were based on "blitzkrieg" tactics, which involved
		A)	a terrible new Teutonic force.
		B)	the use of tanks supported by aircraft to drive deep behind enemy lines.
		C)	a totalitarian achievement other societies could not equal.
		D)	the use of futuristic "lightening" machines that panicked enemy soldiers.


6	The Battle of Britain was important for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
		A)	it was the first battle fought entirely between air forces.
		B)	it showed that nations were incredibly vulnerable to air attack.
		C)	it preserved England as a base for an eventual counteroffensive.
		D)	it encouraged Hitler to move east, where he met his doom.


7	The tide of war turned for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
		A)	the Japanese attack on the United States brought the world's strongest economy into the allied coalition.
		B)	the Russian victory at Stalingrad cost Germany over 300,000 troops, a loss the they could not afford.
		C)	the British and Americans quickly mounted an attack into northern France to help the Russians.
		D)	British and American victories in North Africa started these allied powers on the road to victory.


8	All of the following states effectively mobilized their people and economies for total war EXCEPT
		A)	Germany.
		B)	Britain.
		C)	the United States.
		D)	the Soviet Union.


9	At the height of "production" the death factory at the concentration camp Auschwitz was killing
		A)	1,200 people per week.
		B)	12,000 people per week.
		C)	1,200 people per day.
		D)	12,000 people PER DAY.


10	All of the following were divisive issues in forging Allied strategy EXCEPT
		A)	the "Europe first" policy.
		B)	when to open the "second front."
		C)	who would have how much say in creating new governments like Italy and Poland.
		D)	the relationship between the Allies, de Gaulle's Free French, and Vichy officials.


11	The Allied counter-attack included all of the following offensives EXCEPT
		A)	a sustained, two-year set of attacks by the Soviets along the breadth of the Eastern front.
		B)	Anglo-American attacks on Sicily and then Italy, which brought down Mussolini's government.
		C)	an Anglo-American amphibious assault across the English Channel and then to Paris and the Rhine.
		D)	an Anglo-Russian offensive in the Balkans that drove the Germans up the Danube valley into Austria.


12	The Yalta conference in February 1945 successfully worked out all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	the decision to create and the basic structure of the United Nations.
		B)	the way governments would be set up in liberated countries.
		C)	the entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan.
		D)	the status of France in the occupation of Germany.


13	The devastation of the war in Europe included all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	the war killed approximately 50,000,000 people (!).
		B)	Europe's industrial production was half (1/2) of what it had been in 1939.
		C)	60,000,000 (sixty MILLION) Europeans were refugees at the end of the war.
		D)	Atom bombs had wiped out entire cities, leaving them heaps of rubble.


14	All of the following were imposed on Germany EXCEPT
		A)	it was divided into four occupation zones.
		B)	it was saddled with a huge reparations debt.
		C)	its leaders were put on trial for war crimes.
		D)	its eastern border was adjusted to the west.


15	The Allies created all of the following international agencies to help maintain peace EXCEPT
		A)	the United Nations Organization, to provide relief and, if necessary, keep the peace with armed force.
		B)	Amnesty International, to keep track of the human rights abuses that had characterized the Axis.
		C)	the International Monetary Fund, to keep currencies stable.
		D)	the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which later became the World Bank.


16	The new regimes were characterized in all of the following ways EXCEPT
		A)	Western European countries re-established parliamentary regimes.
		B)	Eastern European countries got governments and economies modeled on the Soviet Union.
		C)	Germany re-established the Weimar Republic based on its old constitution.
		D)	England went through a profound transformation under a socialist Labor government.


17	The early Cold War involved all of the following events in Europe EXCEPT
		A)	the Berlin airlift.
		B)	the Greek rebellion.
		C)	the Marshall plan.
		D)	the Korean War.


18	Early colonial losses after World War II included all of the following EXCEPT
		A)	Britain gave up control of India and Pakistan.
		B)	Holland lost control of Indonesia.
		C)	France was defeated by rebels in Vietnam and Algeria.
		D)	Germany lost Togo and Cameroon.


19	Decolonization had the effect of
		A)	replacing European with Soviet and American control.
		B)	replacing direct control with indirect influence.
		C)	ending outside interference in the newly established states.
		D)	ending internal and external conflicts involving the former colonies.


20	In 1952, the combined Gross National Product (GNP) of the OEEC countries was
		A)	50 percent of 1938.
		B)	equal to 1938.
		C)	one and one half times 1938.
		D)	double 1938.


21	All of the following countries experienced stability in the 1950s EXCEPT
		A)	Britain, which after the war had put into place the most comprehensive social welfare system.
		B)	West Germany, which under Adenauer established itself as a pillar of the Western community.
		C)	France, which came under the influence of de Gaulle once again toward the end of the decade.
		D)	the Soviet Union, which experienced a relaxation under Khrushchev after Stalin died.


22	Europeans established greater independence in all of the following cases EXCEPT
		A)	Britain and France invaded Egypt with Israel despite American and Soviet disapproval.
		B)	East Germany, Romania, and Poland gained greater autonomy from Russia.
		C)	Albanian aligned itself with Communist China rather than the Soviet Union.
		D)	Yugoslavia played the United States and the Soviet Union off against each other.

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