WWII Flashcard

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What was one reason that totalitarian dictatorships gained power in Europe between World War I and World War II?

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Governments failed to meet the needs of the people.

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The policy of appeasement helped cause World War II because this policy

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allowed the aggressive actions of Germany to go unchecked

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When some European leaders agreed to Hitler’s demands concerning Czechoslovakia in 1938, they were supporting a policy of

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appeasement

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Which event occurred immediately after the following developments? •Japan resigns from the League of Nations, 1933 •Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis formed, 1936 •Japan invades China, 1937 •United States places embargo on scrap iron, steel, and oil exports to Japan, 1941

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Pearl Harbor was attacked.

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The Japanese, the Germans, and the Italians pursued a policy of expansionism before World War II to gain

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natural resources

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The Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and Hitler’s rebuilding of the German military in 1935 demonstrate the

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failure of the League of Nations

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During the Holocaust, European Jews

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lost their families, lost their home and all their possessions, sent to concentration camps.

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What was the purpose of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials?

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To Hold Germany and Japan accountable for the Atrocities of WWII