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One of France's plans to isolate the Germans was to

send spies into Germany.build a fence of diplomatic alliances around Germany.destroy the country's capacity to produce goods.set out a propaganda campaign against the Germans.

By 1930, it was apparent that

France's set of alliances, would be sufficient to hold back the Germans.France had firm control over European diplomacy.France needed no help from Great Britain or the United States.France lacked the strength to serve as a European leader.

A big reason for the unpopularity of the USSR in international affairs was its

social programs.Comintern.armed aggression.domestic politics.

The two outcasts of Europe, the Soviet Union and the Weimar Republic, came together in signing the

Kellogg-Briand Pact.Rapallo Pact.Zweikaiserbund.1939 Non-Aggression Pact.

The Japanese first broke the fragile peace after World War I by invading

Indochina.Australia.Manchuria.the Philippines.

After Italy defeated Ethiopia, the defeated land's emperor, Haile Selassie, made an appearance before the League of Nations, which

prohibited the shipment of certain goods and denied credit to Italy.called an international meeting in Athens to discuss the matter.did nothing.mobilized an army to go to Ethiopia.

After being abandoned by the major democratic powers, the Spanish Republic was forced to embrace Soviet support. For this the republicans

received not much effective assistance.gained the margin of difference that allowed them to remain independent.received a certain amount of sympathy.lost a lot of Western support.

In 1937, Hitler's views and strategies toward the immediate future were contained in the

new edition of Mein Kampf.propaganda statements of Goebbels.Ribbentrop Diaries.Hossbach Memorandum.

Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy involved

creating a European front to oppose the Soviet Union.efforts to split Italy away from Germany.giving in to German demands while rebuilding British defenses.alliances with France and Eastern European states.

Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement was

based on an Oxford inspired pacifism.a cunning policy meant to lull Hitler into a state of false security.denounced by British and Commonwealth public opinion.strongly backed by British and Commonwealth public opinion.

Hitler's Anschluss, the forcible uniting of Germany and Austria in 1938,

was popular in Germany.had the tacit support of the British.had great support in Austria.produced all of these results.

The United States bore a large responsibility for the failure of the democracies in the 1930s because of its

isolation.hatred of Great Britain.pro-Franco intervention in the Spanish civil war.active trading with the Nazis, Italian fascists, and Japanese.

The Sudetenland portion of Czechoslovakia, whose status so concerned Hitler prior to the Munich Conference, was

an arena for some of the most enlightened minority policies in all of Europe.a region where the German minority was abused by the Prague government.essentially an agrarian area populated by peasants who cared nothing of politics.100 percent pro-Hitler.

After the Germans took Czechoslovakia, the Italians took Albania. At that point the two signed a military alliance called the

Pact of Steel.Rome-Berlin Accord.Fascist Frienship.Hitler-Mussolini Pact.

When the Germans broke the Munich pact, despite Hitler's repeated assurances, the British and French

approached Franco for a possible alliance.did nothing.began to prepare seriously for war.voiced strong disappointment.

Which of the following items did not bring the Soviets and Nazis together as they peered into the diplomatic future in 1939?

common concern about the fate of Polandcommon assumptions about the role of the leadercommon ideological assumptionscommon contempt for the democratic governments

On August 21, 1939 Hitler startled the world and freed himself for an attack on Poland by concluding a nonaggression pact with

Japan.Sweden.the Soviet Union.France.

Which of the following was not a technological innovation of World War II?

radartanksradio interceptsjet planes

"Blitzkrieg" in World War II meant

massive mobile mechanized movements.aerial reconnaissance.codebreaking.fixed, fortified trench warfare.

Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invaded __________ in 1939.

LatviaFinlandLithuaniaPoland

The lull in action after the German conquest of Poland was called the

Sitzkrieg.Winter War.Volkskrieg.Fritzkrieg.

Reference to "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" as the means to victory was a statement made famous by

Roosevelt.Stalin.Churchill.Hitler.

One of the real mysteries in World War II is why Hitler allowed the British to evacuate 335,000 soldiers from

Dunkirk.Boulogne.Calais.Honfleur.

Petain's Vichy France was

a puppet of the Nazis.the German-occupied area of France that joined the Axis.formed to carry on the struggle against Germany after Dunkirk.a major signatory of the Munich agreement.

After the French capitulation and the establishment of Vichy France, the forces of Free France were led by

Andre Maginot.Maurice Chevalier.Charles de Gaulle.Charles Martel.

Mussolini's decision to invade Greece turned out to be a humiliating experience for him because

Hitler had to save him and his forces.the Greeks made jokes about the Italian army.the Italian army refused to fight.All of the answers are correct.

Which of the following countries was not neutral in the spring of 1941?

PortugalRomaniaSwitzerlandSweden

Which of the following is not one of the reasons that the Soviet Union was able to withstand the German invasion of 1941?

the fact that the Soviet winter came earlier than usual.the fact that the battle for France continued to use up German strength.the influx of lend-lease supplies from the United States and Britain.the bravery and tenacity of the Soviet population.

The document that defined the moral purposes and principles of World War II was drafted by Churchill and Roosevelt; it was the

Manifesto of Freedom.New Magna Carta.New World Order.Atlantic Charter.

Unlike its status before entry into World War I, the United States before World War II was

totally united in agreement to enter the war.unprepared for war.pro-German.certainly not neutral.

The decisive event propelling the United States into World War II was

the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.the Battle of Britain.the invasion of Russia.Hitler's invasion of Poland.

The decisive campaign of World War II took place in

the Soviet Union.the Pacific.Italy.North Africa.

Stalin's use of war for political purposes can be seen in

his demand for unconditional surrender.the Soviet capture of Berlin.the Soviet delay in capturing Warsaw.the Soviet victory at Stalingrad.

It is estimated that the number of victims of Nazi extermination efforts was __________ million.

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