Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Please help with some history questions? 10 points promised!?

Question:


Which of the following statements is true regarding the state of the world as World War II ended?
(Points : 3)
Many European and Asian civilians were hungry and homeless.

Most Americans were unemployed and homeless.

The Soviet Union was no longer an industrialized nation.

Britain's empire no longer existed.

Which of the following would be considered a primary source for World War II?
(Points : 3)
a drawing made in 1962 based on the recollections of a Buchenwald Concentration Camp prisoner

a non-fictional story written in the 1950s about a soldier that served in World War II

a World War II Navy captain's diary describing explicit details about the Battle of Midway

a novel about the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

19. What was the purpose of the Yalta and Potsdam conferences?
(Points : 3)
to create a plan for keeping communism from spreading

to plan for the invasion of the Soviet Union

to discuss the future of the world after the war

to determine how to punish Germany after the war



20. What did the delegates meeting at Dumbarton Oaks in August 1944 decide to call the two chambers of the United Nations?
(Points : 3)
General Assembly and Senate

Security Council and Senate

Senate and the Chamber of Delegates

Security Council and General Assembly



21. Which person was in the first U.S. delegation to the United Nations and was chosen to chair the Human Rights Commission?
(Points : 3)
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Eleanor Roosevelt

Albert Einstein



22. Which of these is a goal of the United Nations?
(Points : 3)
create alliances among nations

promote the spread of capitalism

prevent the spread of communism

help settle international disputes



23. Which of the following was a cause of World War II?
(Points : 3)
German resentment of the harsh treatment they received at the end of World War I

the harsh British and French reaction to Hitler's annexation of Austria

British and French concern about Hitler's tendency to support communism

the harsh measures of the Munich Agreement, which confiscated too much German land

Answer:


Answers in order:

Many European and Asian civilians were hungry and homeless.

a World War II Navy captain's diary describing explicit details about the Battle of Midway

to discuss the future of the world after the war

Security Council and General Assembly

Eleanor Roosevelt

help settle international disputes

German resentment of the harsh treatment they received at the end of World War I

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