Chapter 16 Practice Test
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1. Which of the following leaders transformed the Soviet Union from a rural nation into an industrial power?
a. Stalin
b. Hitler
c. Lenin
d. Mussolini
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2. What is genocide, as practiced by the Nazis?
a. the broadcasting of anti-Semitic ideas
b. the deliberate extermination of a specific group of people
c. the abuse of a nation's citizens by their own government
d. the killing of people for the purpose of creating terror
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3. On what did the German military strategy of blitzkrieg depend?
a. a system of fortifications
b. "out-waiting" the opponent
c. surprise and overwhelming force
d. the ability to make a long, steady advance
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4. When did Britain and France adopt a policy of appeasement toward Germany?
a. before the war began
b. when they declared war
c. when the United States declared war
d. after France was invaded and divided
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5. Which of the following correctly matches the politician with his nation?
a. Austria -- Joseph Stalin
b. Spain -- Francisco Franco
c. Britain -- Charles de Gaulle
d. France -- Neville Chamberlain
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6. Which of the following did Winston Churchill oppose?
a. the Munich Pact
b. the Atlantic Charter
c. the Lend-Lease Act
d. the Treaty of Versailles
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7. Which nation(s) signed a nonaggression pact with Germany that led to the invasion and division of Poland?
a. Italy
b. Spain
c. Italy and Japan
d. the Soviet Union
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8. The actions of which country finally forced the United States to enter the war?
a. Italy
b. Japan
c. Germany
d. the Soviet Union
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9. According to the map, which of the following countries was among the neutral nations?
a. Finland
b. Greece
c. Sweden
d. Great Britain
____ 10. Which of the following countries was an Axis power?
a. Spain
b. Turkey
c. Soviet Union
d. Italy
____ 11. From which direction(s) did Germany attack Leningrad?
a. north and south
b. east and west
c. east
d. west
____ 12. According to the map, who controlled the Soviet Union during this period?
a. the Allies
b. the Axis powers
c. both the Allies and the Axis powers
d. neither the Allies nor the Axis powers
____ 13. During which period did defense expenditures increase the most?
a. 1930 to 1935
b. 1935 to 1940
c. 1940 to 1945
d. 1945 to 1950
____ 14. Between which of the following years did defense expenditures decrease the most?
a. 1930 and 1931
b. 1935 and 1936
c. 1940 and 1941
d. 1945 and 1946
____ 15. Approximately how many percentage points did unemployment increase from 1930 to 1933?
a. five
b. Ten
c. fifteen
d. twenty
____ 16. In what year was that lowest percentage reached?
a. 1943
b. 1944
c. 1945
d. 1946
____ 17. Which of the following did Adolf Hitler oppose?
a. Kristallnacht
b. the Munich Pact
c. the Nuremberg Laws
d. the Treaty of Versailles
____ 18. How were Britain and France drawn into war with Germany?
a. Hitler had taken power in Germany.
b. Germany had attacked Poland.
c. Germany had attacked Czechoslovakia.
d. Germany had pulled out of the League of Nations.
____ 19. What caused militarist leaders to gain control of the Japanese government in the early 1930s?
a. a civil war in Japan
b. Hideki Tojo's appointment as prime minister
c. U.S. shipments of arms and supplies to China
d. their successful invasion of resource-rich Manchuria
____ 20. What was the Lend-Lease Act?
a. a statement of war aims compiled by Roosevelt and Churchill
b. a nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union
c. a policy allowing the president to provide arms to certain foreign countries
d. an order to shoot German U-boats on sight
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