17 & 18 MUSH CH 17 & 18 B

Question 1

Hitler used which of the following military strategies when invading Poland?

Accepted Answer

a blitzkrieg

Question 2

How did Mussolini use gangs of Fascist thugs in Italy?

Accepted Answer

to terrorize his opponents

Question 3

A group of isolationists that included aviator Charles Lindbergh formed the…

Accepted Answer

America First Committee

Question 4

The Japanese leaders believed they could cripple the American naval fleet...

Accepted Answer

at Pearl Harbor

Question 5

In 1940, one of the greatest rescues in the history of warfare occurred…

Accepted Answer

at Dunkirk.

Question 6

Why did two Chinese leaders, Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong, unite?

Accepted Answer

to fight the Japanese

Question 7

Where did one of the greatest rescues in the history of warfare take place?

Accepted Answer

Dunkirk

Question 8

Both Mussolini and Hitler saw expansion of their territory as a way to increase…

Accepted Answer

national pride.

Question 9

Which country had gained control of most of Western Europe by 1940?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 10

Who inspired the British people to resist the German invasion?

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 11

Joseph Stalin dominated the Soviet Union using the tactics of…

Accepted Answer

terror and purges.

Question 12

What prompted the United States to enter the war in 1941?

Accepted Answer

the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 13

In what battle did Hitler launch the greatest air assault the world had yet seen?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Britain

Question 14

After Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia and made a pact with Stalin, he invaded…

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 15

In order to modernize agriculture in the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin…

Accepted Answer

combined small farms into collective farms run by the state

Question 16

Congress passed Neutrality Acts that were designed to

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limit international involvement

Question 17

2 countries declared war on the US after Congress passed a war declaration on Japan?

Accepted Answer

Italy and Germany

Question 18

Nazism was an extreme form of

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fascism

Question 19

The America First Committee wanted to…

Accepted Answer

block any further aid to Britain

Question 20

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor…

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prompted the United States to enter the war

Question 21

By the beginning of World War I, Japan had become the…

Accepted Answer

strongest East Asian nation

Question 22

Hitler signed a Nonaggression Pact with…

Accepted Answer

the Soviet Union

Question 23

The Axis Powers were named for the “axis” between which two European capitals?

Accepted Answer

Berlin and Rome

Question 24

1939 which Fascist made a pact with which Communist?

Accepted Answer

Hitler with Stalin

Question 25

Which was the real motive behind the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?

Accepted Answer

Japan wanted natural resources for its war against China

Question 26

What did Italy, Germany, and Japan have in common in the 1930s? They

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sought to solve their nations’ problems through conquest

Question 27

During the 1930s, Hitler, Mussolini, and the military leaders of Japan began…

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invading neighboring lands.

Question 28

Which was part of American policy during the early years of World War II?

Accepted Answer

remaining neutral & making war supplies available to Britain

Question 29

In 1932, Manchuria was taken over by

Accepted Answer

the Japanese

Question 30

In September 1940, Japan allied itself with…

Accepted Answer

the Axis Powers

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