can some one World History B Unit 8 Test

Answer 1

1. In what way was the Nazi-Soviet Pact similar to the treaty that created the Axis?
B. It enabled the signers to engage freely in aggressive actions.

2. What was one reason Japan invaded Manchuia in 1931?
B. Japanese militarists hoped to build an empire to rival Western colonial empires.

3. How did World War 1 contribute to the events leading up to World War II?
C. Germans hated the Versailles treaty and supported Hitler's actions to defy it.

4. Which action best represents the policy of appeasement followed by Britain and France prior to the start of World War II?
A. Allowing Hitler to annex the Sudetenland as part of the Munich Agreement.

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

Hitler knows that he will have to break us . . . or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed.
D. Winston Churchill after the Dunkirk evacuation.

6. What was the main reason the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?
B. They wanted to build a Pacific empire without interference.

7. Why did France surrender to Germany?
C. France was overrun by German and Italian forces.

8. Which nation was the aggressor in the action describes here?

Food was rationed to two pieces of bread a day. Desperate Leningraders ate almost anything. For example, they boiled wallpaper scraped off walls because its paste was said to contain potato flour.
A. Germany

9. From this map, what can you infer about Germany's geographic position?
D. It began the war mostly surrounded by Allied countries.

10. Which was a cornerstone of Hitler's anti-Semitic beliefs?
A. He believed that Jews were to blame for Germany's defeat in World War 1.

11. Which of the following actions did the Nazis take specifically to implement Hitler's "Final Solution"?
D. They built six special camps in occupied Poland.

12. Which of the following is a reason why Western countries refused to accept more refugees in the late 1930s?
D. Western countries were burdened with the effects of the Great Depression.

13. While Jews were a main target of the Nazis, which other group was also a target?
A. Roma

14. Why was the Battle of the Bulge significant?
D. It was the last time Nazi forces went on the offensive.

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

However, rather than take every single island in the area. [he] decided on what became known as "island-hopping." This tactic meant that the Americans took the larger more important islands captured by the Japanese in the Pacific (such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa) and left the smaller ones to "wither on the vine."
B. General Douglas MacArthur.

16. Which explains why women were able to find new job opportunities during World War II?
C. Many men were pressed into military service overseas.

17. Which nation had the best natural geographic protection against German ground forces?
C. Britain

18. Why did the invasion of Poland launch World War II?
B. It led Britain and France to abandon the policy of appeasement.

19. After the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, which leader intervened to force the Japanese government to surrender and make peace?
D. Emperor Hirohito

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

It all seemed unreal, a sort of dreaming while awake, men were screaming and dying all around me . . . I honestly could have walked the full length of the beach without touching the ground, they were that thickly strewn about.
- U.S. soldier Melvin B. Farrell
A. The Allies began to close in on Germany from both the east and west.

21. Which organization was created after World War II in an effort to ensure peace in the world?
D. United Nations

22. What did the atomic bomb achieve that conventional military force had not yet done?
B. Forced the Japanese to surrender

23. Which of the following statements best described early Nazi military success during WWII?
B. Nazi Germany conquered most of Europe and some of North Africa.

24. Which of the following statements best describes the Allied nations' response to the Holocaust?
A. Allied nations considered it a "refugee situation" but later liberated the camps.

25. What was the significance of the Nuremberg Trials?
D. They helped discredit totalitarian and military-based regimes.