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World War II is considered a total war that required the involvement of all a country's citizens, both on the front lines and on the home front. Yet the effects of the war on the home front differed by location. Match each Axis power to the description of what life was like on the home front for its residents. Japan - correct answers ✅The military kept a tight hold on any possibly negative information about the war and suppressed information that might make residents on the home front think poorly of its military's behavior on the front lines. While support remained strong among its subjects, the government began to call on women to begin working in war industries as mandatory "volunteers." World War II is considered a total war that required the involvement of all a country's citizens, both on the front lines and on the home front. Yet the effects of the war on the home front differed by location. Match each Axis power to the description of what life was like on the home front for its residents.
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Germany - correct answers ✅Having prepared years in advance, this country experienced a relatively quiet first few years of the war. However, as the war dragged on, residents on the home front could no longer ignore the presence of millions of enslaved laborers and news of extermination camps, and they faced more regular bouts of Allied bombing in their cities. World War II is considered a total war that required the involvement of all a country's citizens, both on the front lines and on the home front. Yet the effects of the war on the home front differed by location. Match each Axis power to the description of what life was like on the home front for its residents. Italy - correct answers ✅Outside of fascist circles, residents in the country felt they were fighting on the wrong side of the conflict. Regular defeats in the field in North Africa and eastern Europe further eroded both military morale and public support. By 1943 the Allies had invaded, and the country had turned on its leader and quit the war.
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- The Allies harnessed their populations' brainpower more effectively
- The Allies had the economic advantage Which of the following statements characterize the realities of war crimes during World War II? - correct answers ✅- The Soviet Union was responsible for between 1.2 to 7 million people, including people who may have favored Germany or who were Poles with an education or with military leadership roles.
- Following the Three Alls policy, Japan was responsible for at least 3 million civilian deaths.
- Germans and their accomplices murdered between 10 to 14 million people, including around 6 million Jews Place the following events in the outbreak and early phases of World War II in Europe in order. - correct answers ✅1. Germany conquered Poland, and it occupied Czechoslovakia
- Germany overpowered France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway
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- In the Battle of Britain, Germany attempted and failed to subdue Britain through a sustained air attack
- In operation Barbosa, Germany attacked the Soviet Union, breaking its non-aggression pact with the USSR Below is an example of a Cold War proxy war. Match each war to the set of descriptions that it best fits. Soviet-Afghan War - correct answers ✅-one of the few places the USSR used its own troops to fight a proxy war -began after a Soviet-backed communist coup was on the verge of failure after rebellions broke out Below is an example of a Cold War proxy war. Match each war to the set of descriptions that it best fits. Angolan Civil War - correct answers ✅- one of the African proxy wars
- sparked by the end of Portuguese colonial rule
- warring factions backed up by rival Cold War powers
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- began and ended with the country divided between a U.S.- backed southern half and a Soviet- and China-backed northern half
- showed the limits of American power and eroded its powerful position on top of world affairs Place the following phases of the Sino-Soviet rift in order. - correct answers ✅1. Mao grew resentful of China's treatment by the Soviet Union as a junior communist partner
- NIkita Khrushchev, Stalin's successor, met with American presidents in an attempt to ease Cold War tensions, but Mao interpreted those actions as treasonous and overly soft on capitalism
- China and the Soviet Union competed for influence and admiration abroad, and their leaders began to denounce one another in international circles.
- Soviet and Chinese armies were shooting at one another along their shared border. What were the most important causes of World War II? - correct answers ✅The expansionist agendas of Germany,
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Japan, and Italy, and the effects of the treaties that ended World War I Which factors pushed the Soviet Union toward collapse? - correct answers ✅the cost of its nuclear competition with the United States, and the USSR's failure to build an international economy to rival the American one True or False: While suffering under Axis occupation produced some acts of resistance in territories under Axis control, especially in eastern and southeastern Europe, those efforts faced steep hurdles, as Germans had willing collaborators, and reprisals against resisters were often quite terrible. - correct answers ✅True In 1968, communist authorities in Czechoslovakia promised their unhappy citizens that they would reform the government by reducing censorship and granting more personal and press freedoms. With fewer restrictions, Czechs made their opinions and criticisms of the communist system and Soviet control known in what was called the Prague Spring. In response, Soviet leaders sent troops and tanks,
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- Both strategies rested on the assumption that the other side's economic and political system would ultimately collapse over time. World War II is considered a total war that required the involvement of all a country's citizens, both on the front lines and on the home front. Yet the effects of the war on the home front differed by location. Match each Allied power with the description of what life was like on the home front for its residents UK - correct answers ✅Thorough home front mobilization was the rule here from the beginning. Residents in this country led a rather drab life during the war because of strict rationing. Women worked in war industries, and urban children were sent to live with relatives in the countryside, especially when Germany began bombing major cities. The outlook brightened considerably once more Allies joined the cause. World War II is considered a total war that required the involvement of all a country's citizens, both on the front lines and on the home front. Yet the effects of the war on the home
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front differed by location. Match each Allied power with the description of what life was like on the home front for its residents US - correct answers ✅With the exception of one major Axis attack, this country faced no serious threat to its home front safety. It also faced no major deprivations even though authorities imposed rationing. Its citizens from all ranks of society joined the home front war effort, working in factories, war offices, and farms. Its ability to churn out tons of supplies, machines, weapons, and munitions kept the Allies alive. By 1942, however, authorities had imprisoned over 100, residents of Japanese descent for the duration of the war. World War II is considered a total war that required the involvement of all a country's citizens, both on the front lines and on the home front. Yet the effects of the war on the home front differed by location. Match each Allied power with the description of what life was like on the home front for its residents
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Which factors led to a breakdown of the wartime alliance between the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, ushering in the Cold War? - correct answers ✅- the defeat of the Axis powers
- competing visions of international security
- the agreements made at the Yalta Conference in 1945 Marshall Plan - correct answers ✅This was the strategy of offering massive economic aid to European countries rebuilding from the devastation of World War II. While western Europe accepted the aid, Stalin told eastern European countries to refuse it. Domino Theory - correct answers ✅This idea assumed that if one nation turned to communism, then the rest of the nations in the region would soon follow. It became the justification for the United States' involvement in Vietnam. Containment strategy - correct answers ✅Formulated in 1946 by George Kennan, this was the guiding principle of the American Cold War policy, which assumed that if the United
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States could prevent the spread of communism, communism would eventually crumble. Truman Doctrine - correct answers ✅This was the strategy of providing military assistance to secure countries that were fighting against communism and were deemed by the United States to be at risk. In 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said, "If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." What did he mean, and to whom was he referring? - correct answers ✅- the Soviet Union
- Hitler was so evil and dangerous that an alliance with someone one might otherwise oppose would be worth it. World War II in effect consisted of four overlapping wars in four different theaters. Match each theater below to its correct description.
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World War II in effect consisted of four overlapping wars in four different theaters. Match each theater below to its correct description. fourth theater (December 1941) - correct answers ✅Japan's war against the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia in the Pacific and Southeast Asia Place the events from the final years of World War II in Europe in order. - correct answers ✅1. Italy surrendered to the Allies
- The Soviets pushed the Germans out of the Soviet Union and began their march toward Germany
- On D-Day, British, Canadian, and American forces launched the largest land invasion in military history
- The Soviet army captured Berlin, and the British and American forces occupied western Germany Which of the following is an example of a change initiated by those who were troubled and upset by the atrocities of World War II and wanted to prevent anyone from repeating similar
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actions? - correct answers ✅the United Nations Human Rights Commission Place the following events in Japan's path to war in order. - correct answers ✅1. The United States, Britain, and the Netherlands stopped oil and steel exports to Japan
- Japan launched a surprise attack on British Malaya, the U.S. colony of the Philippines, and a U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- The US declared war on Japan and the Axis powers
- Japanese forces drove the US forces out of the Philippines, seized Britain's colonies of Malaya and Singapore, and attacked northern Australia True or False: The most significant tension in the alliance of Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union was their unwillingness to share secret intelligence freely with one another. - correct answers ✅False What made the war in China different from other theaters of World War II? - correct answers ✅- Chinese forces were
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- In 1966, a U.S. Air Force plane dropped four hydrogen bombs by accident on the coast of southeastern Spain, none of which exploded. The Allies converted industrial labs, engineering, and universities to war work. Which are examples of the advantage this gave them in the war? - correct answers ✅insect repellant miniaturized radar the atomic bomb In the summer of 1941, Hitler moved his troops to attack the _____, breaking his ______ with Stalin. His intention was to conquer his eastern nemesis and settle the region with German families. Although Stalin was surprised by the attack, and the Red Army was in a position of weakness for more than a year, the USSR never broke. Instead, the Red Army drew the Nazis deeper into Russia, in the dead of winter, and stood their ground at the epic _____. This was a ________ in the war for Germany. Hitler forbid retreat in the face of defeat, which cost him about 800,000 troops. At the end of the conflict in March 1943, Germany was driven out of the USSR,
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and from that point on Germany remained on the defensive. - correct answers ✅Soviet union, non-aggression pact, Battle of Stalingrad, turning point True or False: When the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, the blast initially killed over 100,000 people, and radiation poisoning killed about 100,000 more. The vast majority of the casualties, however, were military personnel working in war industries. - correct answers ✅False Citizens of _______ descent in the United States and Canada were treated as potential enemies. During the war, the United States _______ about 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast in internment camps during the war. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of President Roosevelt's decision in a 1944 case. Canadian authorities likewise imprisoned about 22,000 and sold their property to pay for the war effort. By contrast, __________ were never deported or interned, although some were kept under surveillance. - correct answers ✅Japanese, imprisoned, German Americans
