US 2 - Ch 24 - World War Looms

Question 1

End of WWI - many new democracies were established in Europe. What happens between WWI & WWII?

Accepted Answer

replaced by dictatorships

Question 2

policy carried out by Germany using a strategy called blitzkrieg

Accepted Answer

militaristic expansion

Question 3

What happened during the Battle of Britain?

Accepted Answer

Germany bombed Britain for two months

Question 4

Which of the following did Hitler oppose?

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Versailles

Question 5

Which of the following did Winston Churchill oppose?

Accepted Answer

Munich Pact

Question 6

The actions of which country finally forced the US to enter the war?

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 7

How were Britain & France drawn into war with Germany?

Accepted Answer

Germany attacked Poland

Question 8

What is genocide, as practiced by the Nazis?

Accepted Answer

deliberate extermination of a specific group of people

Question 9

What caused militarist leaders to gain control of the Japanese government in the early 1930s?

Accepted Answer

their successful invasion of resource-rich Manchuria

Question 10

On which of the following did Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini disagree?

Accepted Answer

ownership of property

Question 11

Country that was split between Germany & Soviet Union near the beginning of the war

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 12

In following a policy of appeasement, what did Britain & France do?

Accepted Answer

submitted to Hitler's demands

Question 13

What was the Lend-Lease Act?

Accepted Answer

policy allows president to provide arms to certain countries

Question 14

Nation(s) signed a nonaggression pact w/Germany that led to the invasion&division of Poland?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 15

Which of the following statements reflects Roosevelt's feelings toward joining the war?

Accepted Answer

wntd to help Allies but appeased US citizens who opposed war

Question 16

Which group of people suffered 6 million deaths during the Holocaust?

Accepted Answer

Jews

Question 17

Which of the following matches a nation with another nation that it invaded in the 1930s?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union - Poland

Question 18

Which of the following correctly matches the politician with his nation?

Accepted Answer

Spain - Francisco Franco

Question 19

Leader who disapproved of the policy of appeasement

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 20

When did Britain & France adopt a policy of appeasement toward Germany?

Accepted Answer

before the war began

Question 21

Leader whose totalitarian regime was based on a communist philosophy

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stalin

Question 22

leader whose political philosophy was based on both nationalism & racism

Accepted Answer

Hitler

Question 23

Who transformed the Soviet Union from a rural nation into an industrial power?

Accepted Answer

Stalin

Question 24

England & ____ declared war on Germany after the invasion of Poland

Accepted Answer

France

Question 25

Leader who made concessions to Hitler in hopes of ending German aggression

Accepted Answer

Neville Chamberlain

Question 26

On what did the German military strategy of blitzkrieg depend?

Accepted Answer

surprise and overwhelming force

Question 27

Leader of the fascist government in Italy

Accepted Answer

Mussolini

Question 28

An issue that Joseph Stalin & Adolf Hitler did NOT agree on:

Accepted Answer

private property

Question 29

Who/what did FDR describe as "the rattlesnakes of the Atlantic"?

Accepted Answer

German U-boats & crews

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