After Hitler occupied most of France, the remainder of the country became:
Vichy France under Marshall Henri Petain.
CORRECT!
Communist France under Mendez France.
very prosperous.
Free France under Charles de Gaulle.
Republican France under Georges Clemenceau.
The tide in the Russian theater turned in favor of the Russians when:
German forces were surrounded and captured at the crucial battle of Stalingrad.
CORRECT!
German forces were beaten by the Russians in Poland.
Allied forces came to the aid of Russian troops in Iran.
German forces mutinied and abandoned the siege of Leningrad.
Hitler refused to send further supplies to the German troops besieging Moscow.
Nazi occupation in Western Europe differed from that in the east in that:
Nazi occupation was more extremely brutal in the east because of Nazi racial ideology.
CORRECT!
people in western countries were glad to collaborate with the Germans.
they introduced five-year plans in the east, but not in the west.
the Nazis treated captured American and British soldiers more humanely in the west than in the east.
Jews were lumped together with Slavic peoples in the east, and so escaped the worst of the Holocaust there.
All of the following groups were particularly singled out by the Nazis for extermination EXCEPT:
Christian clergy.
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Jews.
homosexuals.
the physically handicapped.
gypsies.
Winston Churchill’s vision for the postwar world:
stressed the balance of power to check the Soviets and resisted ending colonial empires.
CORRECT!!
sought expansive advantages to guarantee security for his own nation based on suspicions about his two Allied counterparts.
imagined the continuation of the Grand Alliance into the postwar world as “Policeman” of world peace and order.
placed first priority in reviving a strong international organization to achieve collective security.
all of these choices are correct.
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill announced at their wartime conference in Casablanca that their principal war aim was to:
force the unconditional surrender of both Germany and Japan.
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promote the national independence of Third World nations.
topple the pro-fascist governments in Spain and Argentina.
destroy the last remnants of European imperialism.
contain the postwar power of the Soviet Union.
Most Lend-Lease aid was sent to:
the Soviet Union and Great Britain.
CORRECT!!
Spain and Ethiopia.
Greece and Turkey.
Spain and Italy.
Great Britain and France.
What exception to unconditional surrender were the Japanese allowed:
Emperor Hirohito was retained by the Japanese.
CORRECT!!
none of the Japanese high command would be tried for war crimes.
the Japanese were allowed to continue to build jet airplanes.
Japan would not have to take responsibility for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
the Japanese were allowed to keep some of the Pacific islands that they had occupied.
All of the following were results of World War II EXCEPT:
the creation of new states in Europe.
CORRECT!!
the positioning of the United States as a world power.
the loss of colonial empires by European nations.
Japan’s adoption of a democratic constitution.
the adoption of the United Nations Charter.
Which statement expressed a defense used by some Nazi was criminals at their trials in an attempt to justify their actions during World War II?
One’s behavior is not accountable when one is following orders.
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In a war, loss of lives cannot be avoided.
The end justifies the means.
A person should be held personally responsible for his or her own actions.
Those who hold power have the right to exercise it in any way they see fit.
[Quiz originally from here]