World History Chapter 19: World War II Study Guide
Mr. Ron McCants, Teacher
Answers on page 5
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. ____ administered the Nazi’s Final Solution.
a. Heinrich Himmler
c. Adolf Hitler
b. Reinhard Heydrich
d. Heinrich Strasser
2. When the Einsatzgruppen proved to be too slow for the Nazis, they
a. built special extermination camps in Poland.
b. tried to speed them up using zeppelins.
c. gave up and focused their attention on the Soviet front.
d. invaded England.
3. At the Potsdam Conference, Truman demanded ____ throughout Eastern Europe.
a. a joint British-Russian military presence
b. freely elected governments
c. the reestablishment of the pre-war national boundaries
d. widespread demilitarization
4. Neville Chamberlain boasted that the Munich Conference meant
a. Great Britain had made Germany back down.
b. “peace for our time.”
c. Germany and Russia were allies.
d. “safety for Mother England.”
5. The “Mukden incident,” which Japan used as an excuse to seize Manchuria, was
a. an attack on a Japanese railway by Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese.
b. the accidental sinking of the Mongolian merchant ship Mukden by a Chinese warship.
c. the murder of a Japanese soldier in Mukden.
d. a labor strike by Chinese workers in a Japanese factory in Mukden.
6. At ____, heroic efforts by the British Royal Navy and civilians in private boats managed to evacuate 338,000
Allied troops.
a. Danzig
c. Normandy
b. the Maginot Line
d. Dunkirk
7.
Where were most of Italy’s possessions and acquisitions located?
a. in central Europe
c. in Africa
b. in Asia
d. none of the above
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8. Which of the following countries was in the area of Soviet influence after World War II?
a. Czechoslovakia
c. Finland
b. Austria
d. Greece
Characteristics
Military Personnel
Army
Air Force
United States War Involvement
World War I
World War II
4,744,000
16,354,000
4,057,000
11,260,000
(Part of Army)
(Part of Army)
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Killed
Wounded
599,000
4,183,000
79,000
669,000
9,000
241,000
116,516
405,399
204,002
670,846
Source: Historical Statistics of the United States.
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9. In terms of percentages, which of the following branches of the armed forces had the largest increase from
World War I to World War II?
a. Army
c. Marines
b. Navy
d. Coast Guard
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I ask the fifty-two nations not to forget today the policy upon which they embarked
eight months ago, and in faith of which I directed the resistance of my people against
the aggressor whom they had denounced to the world. Despite the inferiority of my
weapons, the complete lack of aircraft, artillery, munitions, hospital services, my
confidence in the League was absolute. I thought it to be impossible that fifty-two
nations, including the most powerful in the world, should be successfully opposed by
a single aggressor. Counting on the faith due to treaties, I had made no preparation
for war . . . .
Haile Selassie, address to the League of Nations in Geneva, June 30, 1936
What is Haile Selassie asking the League of Nations to do?
a. denounce the aggressor
b. give Ethiopia weapons, aircraft, artillery, and munitions
c. provide hospital services
d. honor its treaties and come to the aid of Ethiopia
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a. Axis Powers
f.
b. “Mukden incident”
g.
c. blitz
h.
d. Vichy France
i.
e. appeasement
j.
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12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
Einsatzgruppen
Luftwaffe
Munich Conference
Yalta Conference
Holocaust
policy that sought peace and stability by satisfying the reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers
Neville Chamberlain thought the agreement reached there meant “peace for our time”
used as an excuse for Japanese seizure of Manchuria
unoccupied France, governed by authoritarian regime under German control
German air force
Germany, Italy, and Japan
special strike forces for carrying out Nazi Final Solution
the slaughter of European civilians, particularly European Jews, by the Nazis
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a. isolationism
f. Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
b. Potsdam Conference
g. Tehran Conference
c. Anti-Comintern Pact
d. D-Day
e. Allied Powers
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20.
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22.
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24.
25.
h. blitzkrieg
i. kamikaze
j. Final Solution
“lightning war” that utilized tanks supported by airplanes
Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States
history’s greatest naval invasion
Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews
Japanese pilots who flew suicide missions against U.S. warships
meeting of the Big Three to discuss the final attack on Germany
meeting at which Truman demanded free elections throughout Eastern Europe
Short Answer
Battle Deaths in World War II
Country
Battle Deaths
USSR
7,500,000
Germany
3,500,000
Yugoslavia
410,000
Poland
320,000
Romania
300,000
United States
292,000
United Kingdom
245,000
France
210,000
Hungary
140,000
Finland
82,000
Italy
77,000
Greece
74,000
Canada
37,000
26.
How did the number of Polish battle deaths compare with the number of German
battle deaths during World War II? Why is the figure low?
27.
In which country were most of the death camps located?
28.
Why was it important to the Allies to destroy Japan’s merchant fleet?
29.
The attackers had got in unimpeded because our fighters, which had engaged the
preceding wave of torpedo planes only a few moments earlier, had not yet had time
to regain altitude. Consequently, it may be said that the American dive-bombers’
success was made possible by the earlier martyrdom of their torpedo planes. Also,
our carriers had no time to evade because clouds hid the enemy’s approach until he
dived down to the attack. We had been caught flatfooted in the most vulnerable
condition possible—decks loaded with planes armed and fueled for an attack.
Mitsuo Fuchida, “Battle of Midway”
What factors contributed to America’s victory in this battle?
30.
Which country lost the most soldiers in World War I? Which country lost the most in
World War II? How would these losses translate into actual numbers
(approximately)?
World History Chapter 19: World War II Study Guide
Answer Section
Mr. Ron McCants, Teacher
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. ANS: B
PTS: 1
DIF: C
REF: Pages 607-608
2. ANS: A
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Pages 608-609
3. ANS: B
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 618
4. ANS: B
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 593
5. ANS: A
PTS: 1
DIF: C
REF: Page 594
6. ANS: D
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 596
7. ANS: C
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 593
8. ANS: A
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 617
9. ANS: D
PTS: 1
DIF: C
REF: Pages 600-604
10. ANS: D
PTS: 1
DIF: C
REF: Pages 591-593
MATCHING
11. ANS: E
PTS: 1
DIF: E
REF: Page 592
12. ANS: H
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 593
13. ANS: B
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 594
14. ANS: D
PTS: 1
DIF: E
REF: Page 597
15. ANS: G
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 597
16. ANS: A
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 600
17. ANS: F
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Pages 607-608
18. ANS: J
PTS: 1
DIF: E
REF: Pages 606-607
19. ANS: H
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 596
20. ANS: E
PTS: 1
DIF: E
REF: Page 600
21. ANS: D
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 603
22. ANS: J
PTS: 1
DIF: E
REF: Page 607
23. ANS: I
PTS: 1
DIF: E
REF: Page 614
24. ANS: G
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 617
25. ANS: B
PTS: 1
DIF: A
REF: Page 618
SHORT ANSWER
26. ANS: Poland had less than a tenth as many battle deaths as Germany. The Poles were defeated very quickly.
27. ANS: Poland
28. ANS: If the Allies could isolate Japan, the country would not be able to get the resources needed to continue
manufacturing war materiel or feed its population.
29. ANS: Japanese fighter planes had not recovered quickly enough from the first American assault; clouds hid
the approach of the next wave of American planes; the Japanese shipdecks were loaded with fueled and armed
planes.
30. ANS: Germany lost the most soldiers in World War I, and the Soviet Union lost the most in World War II.
German losses accounted for 22.6% of the total World War I losses, while the Soviet losses accounted for
50% of the total World War II losses. The percentage of Soviet losses in World War II is more than twice the
percentage of German losses in World War I. Germany lost a total of less than 2 million in World War I,
while the Soviet Union lost a total of 7.5 million in World War II.
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