AP World History Chapter 20 Terms Flashcards

9323580726	In Japan in the 1920s:	the populace became politicized	0
9323580727	Which of the following is NOT a reason why the German people tolerated Hitler's leadership during the mid-1930s?	His persecution of the Jews purged Germany of a legitimate threat to national security	1
9323580728	Fascism does NOT stand for:	individual rights	2
9323624534	Which of the following was NOT a tactic utilized by Mussolini in his efforts to claim power in Italy?	rational debate	3
9323624535	The League of Nations responded to Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia by:	doing almost nothing	4
9323624536	Japan had a high rate of economic growth during the two decades preceding World War II	True	5
9323624537	Adolf Hitler:	Laid out his political program in Mein Kampf	6
9323624538	After World War I, Japan's industrial development:	succeeded in integrating large-scale factory production with small-scale cottage industries	7
9323624539	The Gestapo was established in 1936 to eliminate (through murder or internment) opposition leaders who advocated anti-Hitler ideologies	True	8
9337961030	The League of Nations:	was a forum for resolving international conflicts through negotiations	9
9337961031	Which of the following aggressive actions occurred before World War II had officially begun?	Japan invaded China	10
9337961032	Hitler invaded which of the following on 1 September 1939, opening the European theater in World War II?	Poland	11
9337961033	Which of the following was annexed by Germany in Hitler's Anschluss?	Austria	12
9337961034	Pablo Picasso painted Guernica to protest:	Aerial bombardment of civilians	13
9337961035	Which of the following did NOT support General Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War?	Soviet Union	14
9337961036	World War II started when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia.	False	15
9337961037	Which of the following was NOT a part of the famed "Maginot Line"?	elevated gun turrets	16
9337961038	Which of the following was NOT a part of Japan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"?	open trade with the West	17
9353569017	Which of the following was NOT included in the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" by 1942?	Fiji	18
9353569018	Mohandas Gandhi argued that:	the civilization was on the path to self-destruction	19
9353569019	The turning point in the Eastern front came at the battle of:	Stalingrad	20
9363871323	Hitler believed in a racial hierarchy and placed blacks at the bottom.	False	21
9363871324	The Soviet Union suffered the highest casualty rate in World War II: about 20 million dead.	True	22
9363871325	"Island hopping" was:	the U.S. strategy of sequential liberation of Japan's holdings in the Pacific	23
9363871326	The first atomic bomb was dropped on:	Hiroshima	24
9363871327	In 1941, hundreds of thousands of Serbs and other "undesirables" were murdered by:	the Ustasa	25
9363871328	Women did much of the factory work in America during World War II.	True	26
9363871329	Which of the following achieved the highest level of aircraft production by 1944?	USA	27
9365315738	According to Albert Camus, the only serious philosophical question is:	Whether to commit suicide	28
9365315739	Which of the following was NOT one of the aims of the United Nations, according to the preamble of the organization's charter?	establish democratic governments throughout the world	29
9365315740	According to the preamble to the charter of the United Nations, the world is encouraged to practice tolerance.	True	30
9365315741	The Terror House in Budapest memorializes:	Hungary's occupations by the Germans and by the Soviets	31
9365315742	The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima:	was the first nuclear weapon used in war	32
9365315743	At the Nuremberg Trials:	22 Nazis were tried for criminal acts against humanity	33
9365315744	The United Nations:	was envisioned primarily as a vehicle to promote peace	34
9365315745	This is NOT part of the United Nations:	International Monetary Fund	35