Question

1)

Answer 1

1. C because Hitler used Blitzkrieg over Great Britain.
2. C it is the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people by gassing, shooting, and other means.
3. B or D
4. A appeasement is a political policy of conceding to aggression by a warlike nation.
5. D. All of the others were lead by dictators (emperors) and I checked my notes
6. D there are holocaust museums in both Europe and Washington, D.C. and it was to kill anyone who had different ideas than Nazis

Answer 2

1)  Annexation of Czechoslovakia, Non-Aggression Pact, Invasion of Poland, Blitzkrieg  ... This list BEST summarizes events that led to the start of

C) World War II.

All of those items were carried out by Germany under Hitler.

2) The Final Solution refers to

C) Hitler's plan to eliminate Jewish people in all of Germany.

At first Jews had been put in labor camps and used for medical experiments. The "Final Solution" in the minds of the Nazi regime was to exterminate them.

3) President Truman decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945 because

D) it would prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths that an invasion of Japan would cause.

A land invasion would have caused the deaths of many thousands of  Americans and Japanese. The atomic bombs resulted in the deaths of many thousands of Japanese, without American casualties.

4) The term used to describe the willingness of Britain and France to allow Hitler to repeatedly break provisions of the Treaty of Versailles is

A) appeasement.

The policy of appeasement was signed by the prime ministers of Britain and France with Hitler in Munich in September, 1938.  They had given in to Germany's annexation of the Sudentland as a German territory, including the evacuation of any Czech population from the region. 

5) The Axis Powers in World War II included all of the following EXCEPT

D) Poland.

Poland was invaded and overcome by Hitler's armies, and that was the start of World War II in Europe.

6) "The Holocaust" of World War II generally refers to the

D) planned murder of Jews, gypsies, communists, and others by the Germans (under Nazi rule).

"Holocaust" is a term that means "burning the whole thing."  It comes from terms related to burnt offerings of animals in ancient religions. Essentially, the unwanted Jews and others in Germany were treated like animals to be slaughtered.