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Duplicate of Ch.16 WW II
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Ch.16 - World War 2 Looms
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1
Which countries on the map are identified as Axis powers?
Germany, Italy, Albania
Ireland, Portugal, Spain
Great Britain, Syria, Poland
France, Norway, Finland
2
Which of the following matches the nation?
Italy > Benito Mussolini
Britain > Charles de Gaulle
Austria > Joseph Stalin
France > Neville Chamberlain
3
What was the German
blitzkreig
strategy?
Long, steady advance
A system of fortifications
"out-waiting" the opponent
surprise bombing and overwhelming
4
the German master race.
Joseph Stalin
Aryan
Benito Mussolini
Charles de Gaulle
5
Why was it more difficult for Germany to occupy Britain than to occupy France?
Britain was surrounded by water
France was larger
Britain was protected by Ireland
Britain was closer
6
According to the map, which of the following countries was among the neutral nations?
Sweden
Great Britain
Greece
Finland
7
What countries are the Axis Powers?
France, Norway, Finland,
Great Britain, Syria, Iran
Ireland, Spain, Sweden
Germany, Italy, Japan
8
From which direction(s) did Germany attack Leningrad?
East
North and south
West
East and west
9
The Nazi's rounded up Jews and other people they felt were inferior and sent them to ________?
Peacetime drafts
Concentration camps
Synagogues
Merchant ships
10
The actions of which country finally forced the United States to enter the war?
Soviet Union
Italy
Japan
Germany
11
A totalitarian leader who believed in Communism
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
12
Which countries did Germany attack in 1938?
Czechoslovakia and Austria
Belgium and France
Poland and Austria
Austria and Yugoslavia
13
Leader of Great Britain who opposed appeasement
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
14
Which nation signed a pact with Germany that led to the invasion and division of Poland?
Italy
Japan
Spain
Soviet Union
15
Japan launched a surprise attack on the naval base at __________?
Britain
France
Dunkirk
Pearl Harbor
16
Which group of people suffered 6 million deaths during the Holocaust?
Nationalists
Jews
Fascists
Aryans
17
The supply of ammunition, arms, and other war materials?
Militant
Massacre
Arsenal
Aggressor
18
America's Neutrality Acts outlawed arms to?
Communist countries
All European countries
Fascist countries
All countries at war
19
_____________ is the deliberate and systematic killing of an entire group of people?
Appeasement
Isolationism
Fascism
Genocide
20
Leader whose political philosophy was based on nationalism and racism?
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Benito Mussolini
21
After the fall of France, he set up a government in exile in Britain?
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Neville Chamberlain
22
Which of the following countries was an Axis Power?
Spain
Turkey
Soviet Union
Italy
23
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
Policy to provide weapons to foreign nations
Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union
Order to shoot German U-Boats
Statement of war by Roosevelt and Churchill
24
When did Germany invade France?
1938
1940
1939
1941
25
Which of the following did Adolf Hitler oppose?
Munich Pact
Kristallnacht
Nuremberg Laws
Treaty of Versailles
26
When did Britain and France practice appeasement toward Germany?
After France was invaded
When they declared war
When the United States declared war
Before the war began
27
United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union were known as the _______ powers?
Allied
Axis
United
Atlantic
28
Country that, with England, declared war on Germany after the German invasion of Poland?
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
France
China
29
Which of the following leaders transformed the Soviet Union into an industrial power?
Lenin
Hitler
Stalin
Mussolini
30
Who or what did President Roosevelt describe as "the rattlesnake of the Atlantic"?
U.S. navy ships and their crews
Japanese warplanes and their pilots
German U-boats
Axis nations and their leaders
31
Government that stresses nationalism and places the interest of the country above an individual
Communism
Totalitarian
Fascism
Dictatorship
32
Country that began the war in an alliance with Germany but ended the war fighting Germany?
Japan
Soviet Union
France
Poland
33
In what year did Germany invade the Soviet Union?
1941
1938
1940
1939
34
After World War I Europe had many democracies. At the start of World War II what happened?
They thrived
They were replaced by dictatorships
They became Communist
They were torn apart by civil wars
35
Nationalism is an intense loyalty to one's?
Race
Religion
Family
Country
36
According to the map, who controlled the Soviet Union during this period?
the Allies
the Axis powers
Both the Allies and the Axis powers
neither the Allies or the Axis powers
37
A ___________ is a "lightning war" of quick, crushing surprise attacks
Genocide
Blitzkrieg
Fascism
Holocaust
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What is genocide, as practiced by the Nazi's?
Extermination of a specific group of people
Anti-Sematic ideas
Creating terror in a nation
A nations citizens abusing the government
39
Which of the following countries was a member of the Allied Powers?
Greece
Sweden
Finland
Great Britain