Chapter 21 Review Sheet

Questions to Know

1. When Germany could not pay reparations, the French attempted to

2. New technologies in the 1930s made it possible for totalitarian leaders

3. Stalin set up a series of Five-Year Plans in order to

4. How did France and Britain respond to Germany’s expansion of territory?

5. Why did Allied leaders meet in 1943 to make plans for the post-war world?

6. Which of the following was a major turning point in World War II?

7. Why did the Soviet Union set up Communist governments in Eastern Europe?

8. The United States sent troops to Korea in an attempt to

9. How did the Soviet Union respond to Eastern European demands for change?

10. France gave its colonies in sub-Saharan Africa their independence in order to

11. One major cause of the Great Depression was the failure of

12. In a totalitarian state, leaders attempt to

13. Why did the Nazi Party become the largest party in the German government?

14. How did the United States help Great Britain early in World War II?

15. Britain and France declared war on Germany in 1939 because Hitler

16. What was the purpose of D-Day?

17. The U.S. policy of containment was meant to

18. The Truman Doctrine pledged that the U.S. would

19. Why did South Vietnam’s leader refuse to hold democratic elections?

20. Mohandas Gandhi protested British rule of India by People to Know

1. George F. Kennan

2. Ho Chi Minh

3. Mao Zedong

Terms to Know

1. Allies

2. Axis Powers

3. depression

4. Holocaust

5. appeasement

6. New Deal

7. inflation

8. Tehran Conference

9. Mein Kampf

Places to Know

1. Italy

2. Pakistan

3. Poland

4. East Timor

5. Pearl Harbor

6. Battle of Britain

7. Hiroshima

8. Auschwitz