War Crimes and the Holocaust — Unit test

Question 1

On the Night of Broken Glass in Germany, which of the following occurred?

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Thousands of Jewish people were arrested.

Question 2

A result of the Nuremberg trials was that the United Nations

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established that genocide was an international crime.

Question 3

After World War II, which of the following changes occurred in Germany?

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Germany became two separate countries.

Question 4

A negative political effect of World War II was

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the division of Europe into East and West.

Question 5

When it first entered World War II, why did the United States commit seventy percent of its resources to the war in Europe?

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Roosevelt and Churchill decided to focus on the greater threat first.

Question 6

The occurrence of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, in Germany in 1938 showed that the Nazi government

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fully supported violence against Jewish people.

Question 7

How were Allied troops able to defeat the German advance at the Battle of the Bulge?

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Attacks by Patton on one side combined with attacks by Montgomery on the other.

Question 8

By the end of 1944, during the last days of Nazi Germany, Allied forces

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had blocked Germany in on three sides.

Question 9

The US attitude toward the Soviet Union at the end of World War II can be best characterized as

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wary.

Question 10

On the western front during World War II, US and British troops began their final push toward Germany

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in Normandy.

War Crimes and the Holocaust — Unit test Answers