AP World History Chapter 31 Flashcards

2268810588	world war 2 officially began in what year	1939	0
2268811416	what countries were members of the axis powers	germany, japan, italy	1
2268811992	after 1937, the government of japan was dominated by	a military regime dedicated to the ultra-nationalist goals	2
2268812370	when did the japanese march into manchuria	1931	3
2268813072	adolf hitler was the political and ideological leader of	national socialist party	4
2268813910	Hitler promised the German people all of the following EXCEPT	to rid Germany of the kulaks	5
2268815003	who was the leader of fascist italy	mussolini	6
2268815426	what country contributed to spain's republicans during the spanish civil war	the soviet union	7
2268815683	This city became the capital of the Chinese Nationalists for much of WWII	Chongqing	8
2268816010	the tripartite pact, signed in 1940, included what countries	germany, japan, italy	9
2268816261	in order to avoid a two front war, hitler signed a non aggression pact with	the soviet union	10
2268816582	the nazi invasion of this country in 1939 put an end to the idea of appeasement	poland	11
2268817049	what was the basis used for the german military strategy	blitzkrieg	12
2268818504	what happened in rotterdam	nazi bombers leveled the dutch port of rotterdam, killing over 40,000 civilians	13
2268819860	Which of the following did NOT contribute to the fall of France to the Germans?	The refusal of English troops to fight with the French	14
2268820192	This city was the capital of the Nazis' puppet regime in France	vichy	15
2268821915	All of the following groups were part of the Final Solution EXCEPT	musicians	16
2268822465	At this conference in 1942, the Nazi high command finalized plans for the destruction of the Jewish race	Wannsee	17
2268822856	Approximately how many people were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust?	12 million	18
2268823498	where did the allies launch their european invasion	normandy	19
2268823949	Hitler's last-ditch effort to repel the Allied armies became known as	the Battle of the Bulge	20
2268825405	Universally recognized as the greatest naval battle in history, the Japanese fleet was effectively put out of commission at	midway	21
2268826360	This American general ordered mass aerial bombing of highly vulnerable Japanese cities	le may	22
2268827541	what country chose a path of neutrality and cooperation with japan in the pacific theater of ww2	thailand	23
2268828707	Japan's surrender in the Pacific was precipitated by	the use of atomic weapons on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima by the US	24
2268829140	what were the conferences held among the allied powers to determine the fate of europe after the defeat of germany	potsdam, yalta, teheran	25
2268831264	what institution was created as a result of ww2	united nations	26
2268831734	what is true concerning zionism following ww2	zionists turned to violent attempts to eject the british from palestine in response to the british attempts to limit immigration to the middle east	27
2268832514	the afrikaner national party in south africa established a rigid system of racial segregation called	apartheid	28
2268833321	In what nation were white settlers able to retain their position of supremacy?	south africa	29
2268833968	by what decade had the european colonization of most of black africa come to an end	60s	30
2268834879	what did jomo kenyatta do	led to a violent and prolonged revolution in kenya	31
2268835676	what is true concerning the algerian independence movement	decolonization in algeria was violent, as white settlers resisted independence through the OAS supported by powerful elements within the french military	32
2268836532	Which of the following nations achieved independence without violence?	philippines	33
2268837305	What radical African leader helped to achieve independence in Ghana?	Kwame Nkrumah	34
2268837674	In what year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, thus bringing the US into WWII?	1941	35
2268838022	Which of the following was NOT a result of the peace treaties signed following WWII	German industrial power was destroyed	36
2268838555	British victory in the Battle of Britain was due to all of the following EXCEPT	the V2 rocket	37
2268838779	Hitler came to power in Germany	as a result of entirely legal and constitutional means	38
2268839940	In what type of African colonies was the process of decolonization most violent?	Those with large numbers of white settlers	39
2268840677	What was the solution to the division in India between Muslims and Hindus in 1947?	The British decided to divide India into two nations, a Muslim Pakistan and a secular, but Hindu dominated India	40
2268841164	Of all the nationalist parties in India, the British were most closely allied with	the Muslim league	41
2268841544	How did the Indian Congress Party and nationalist leaders respond to British participation in WWII?	Congress opposed the war effort and its leaders were jailed, but the Muslim League rallied to the British cause	42
2268841894	A Jewish homeland to be called Israel was established in 1948	in Palestine	43
2268842644	What document during WWII included a clause that recognized the "right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live?"	the atlantic charter	44
2268843177	Which of the following nations, created in the aftermath of WWI, lost its/their independence following WWII?	Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia	45
2268843956	FDR met with the other major Allies in 1945 at	Yalta	46
2268844407	A 1944 Allied landing in this country created a European front against the Germans	France	47
2268844684	The balance of the war in Europe shifted in 1941 when Germany invaded	the Soviet Union	48