Unit 10 Study Guide

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How were the totalitarian governments of Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union similar?

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They all used force to silence opposition.

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What was the most direct result of Japan’s conquest of Nanjing, China?

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Japanese soldiers carried out a mass murder of civilians.

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What effect did the policy of appeasement have on international relations in the 1930s?

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Germany took over more and more land.

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What was Germany’s military strategy early in World War II?

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attack with quick, powerful strikes

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What effect did the North African Campaign have on the course of World War II?

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It led to the Allied invasion of Italy and Italy's surrender.

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What event does the map below represent?

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The D-Day invasion

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Which event resulted in the capture and imprisonment of thousands of Allied troops and their supporters? Options: fighting in the Philippines, the Battle of Midway, the bombing of Nagasaki

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fighting in the Philippines

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Which factor made Japanese military forces especially deadly?

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Japan’s soldiers were taught to fight to the death rather than surrender.

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Which argument shows the reasoning that led President Truman to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan? Options: Japan also had atomic bombs and might use them if the war continued. Japan had refused to surrender even after the United States revealed it had an atomic bomb. Deaths from the atomic bomb would be fewer than deaths from an invasion of Japan.

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Deaths from the atomic bomb would be fewer than deaths from an invasion of Japan.

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What did the Allied Powers do after the liberation of Holocaust camps and the end of World War II?

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They imprisoned or executed some of the Nazi leaders involved in the Holocaust.