chapter 36: New Conflagrations - World War II and the Cold War
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| 9597415897 | what was the first act of aggression which ended the post-Great-War peace? | Japan's invasion of Manchuria | 0 | |
| 9597425708 | what is the phrase "peace in our time" now associated with? | the failure of appeasement to halt aggression | 1 | |
| 9597435664 | explain what happened in the Rape of Nanjing. | it represents the horrors of war passion driven by nations of racial superiority | 2 | |
| 9597448089 | describe the strategy of Blitzkrieg. how effective was it? | it was effective, but mostly in the invasion of Poland | 3 | |
| 9597456328 | why was the Japanese conquest of Singapore so symbolically significant? | it dealt a blow to British prestige to European superiority in Asia | 4 | |
| 9597467616 | what were kamikaze tactics? why were they significant? | they convinced many people in the U.S. that the Japanese would never willingly surrender | 5 | |
| 9597473922 | why did some Asian peoples experience little resentment toward Japanese occupation of their countries? | they found little to resent in the change from European colonial occupation to Asian colonial occupation | 6 | |
| 9597486985 | what does the term "final solution" refer to? | Germany's plan to murder ALL Jews in Europe | 7 | |
| 9597492569 | explain the establishment of comfort houses for Japanese soldiers. | comfort houses were built so that they could prevent mass rape as in the occupation of Nanjing of 1937 | 8 | |
| 9597508159 | what was the Warsaw Pact and why was it created? | to counter-balance the NATO | 9 |
