Road to WWII - Chapter 16 The American Nation

Question 1

You need to know the four freedoms! They are:

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Freedom of Speech, Freedom from Want, Freedom of Religion, Freedom from Fear

Question 2

A government that controls every aspect of citizens' lives through a single-party dictatorship?

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Totalitarian State

Question 3

Who fought in the Spanish Civil War? (Two answers are correct.)

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The Spanish Loyalists, The Spanish Fascists

Question 4

What is it called when a federal government asserts control over an industry?

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nationalize

Question 5

Adolf Hitler was voted in as Chancellor of Germany by what percentage of the German vote?

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40%

Question 6

Who was reelected President in 1940, partly because he promised to keep the USA out of the war?

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Franklin D Roosevelt

Question 7

Agreement between USA and UK not to expand territory and showed the war was not for conquest?

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Atlantic Charter

Question 8

Who was the U.S. Secretary of State under President Harding and wanted naval disarmament?

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Charles Evans Hughes

Question 9

Which describes the foreign policy of isolationism?

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withdraw from the affairs of other nations

Question 10

Who listed four universal freedoms in his "Four Freedoms" address?

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Franklin D Roosevelt

Question 11

Who was the communist dictator of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin died?

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Joseph Stalin

Question 12

What did the reparations do to Germany's economy following World War I?

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made Germany weaker

Question 13

What agreement outlawed war as an instrument of national policy?

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 14

What radio program did Orson Welles broadcast in 1938, scaring many Americas?

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The War of the Worlds

Question 15

What does Kristallnacht mean?

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"night of the broken glass"

Question 16

Together, Japan, Italy and Germany were known as the

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Axis Powers

Question 17

What is the hatred of Jews called?

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Anti-Semitism

Question 18

What does Mein Kampf mean in English?

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My Struggle

Question 19

What African country did Italy invade in 1935?

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Ethiopia

Question 20

The book that Adolf Hitler wrote while in prison for trying to overthrow the government?

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Mein Kampf

Question 21

Approximately how many people did Joseph Stalin's policies kill?

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30 million

Question 22

World War II began on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded

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Poland

Question 23

Act of Congress in 1941 that sent billions of $$$ in military supplies to non-Axis countries?

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Lend-Lease Act

Question 24

What happened on the "night of the broken glass"?

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Nazis vandalized and burned down Jewish synagogues and homes

Question 25

At the Munich Conference, Germany was given control of

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Sudetenland

Question 26

Who instituted the Nuremberg Laws?

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Adolf Hitler

Question 27

What was the name of Italy's fascist soldiers?

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Blackshirts

Question 28

What did Mussolini do to gain power in Italy?

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arrested political opponents, limited freedom of speech, restricted voting rights

Question 29

Who was the British Prime Minister who tried to appease Hitler with the Sudetenland?

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Neville Chamberlain

Question 30

Organized massacre of an ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe?

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pogrom

Question 31

Who was the fascist leader of Italy?

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Benito Mussolini

Question 32

Before the Nazi Storm Troopers were called the Schutzstaffel, the SS, they were called

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the Brownshirts

Question 33

Which two countries declared war on Germany following her invasion of Poland 9/1/39?

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France, Great Britain

Question 34

Who was the Prime Minister of England after Chamberlain who refused to appease Hitler?

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Winston Churchill

Question 35

Who did Joseph Stalin sign a non-aggression pact with prior to World War II?

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Adolf Hitler

Question 36

Which country first violated the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

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Japan

Question 37

Who wrote "The Sun Also Rises" while a journalist in Spain during the Spanish Civil War?

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Ernest Hemmingway

Question 38

What two things did the Nuremberg Laws do?

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allowed for the destruction of Jewish property, took away citizenship from Jews

Question 39

What form of government has the military controlling every aspect of society?

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fascism

Question 40

What was the name of the Japanese group that wanted to drive Russia out of East Asia?

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The Black Dragons

Question 41

In which country was the Sudetenland located?

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Czechslovakia

Question 42

What conference did U.S. Secretary Hughes host to increase international naval disarmament?

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Washington Conference

Question 43

What was the name of the Soviet Union army?

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Red Army

Question 44

What does appease mean?

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pacify

Question 45

What was the name of American policy concerning foreign affairs during the 1920s and 1930s?

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Isolationalism

Question 46

What does disarmament mean?

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reduce armed forces and weapons of war

Question 47

What agreement di the Four-Power Treaty create between USA, France, England and Japan?

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They would respect each other's Pacific possessions.

Question 48

What were the payment of damages of WWI Germany had to pay called?

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reparations

Question 49

What does the word "blitzkrieg" mean?

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"lightning war"

Question 50

Where did Japan invade when she violated the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

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Machuria

Question 51

In WWII, what was the line of defense the French built between France and Germany called?

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Maginot Line

Question 52

Who was the dictator of Germany during World War II?

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Adolf Hitler

Question 53

What did Hitler call his government?

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Third Reich

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