USHC 7.1 WWII BEGINS

USHC 7.1 WWII BEGINS

Multiple Choice

How did Mussolini come to power in Italy during the 1920s?

• He led a military coup and seized power from the Parliament.

• His father was the King of Italy and when he passed away, Mussolini was crowned.

• He promised to fix the economy and was elected by the people.

• The citizens of Italy rose up, overthrew the government, and petitioned him to

  take control.

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What was the Beer Hall Putsch?

• The American plan to help Germany pay the reparations.

• The overthrow of the Weimar Republic.

• Hitler’s first attempt to take over Germany.

• Italy and Germany signing an alliance.

Multiple Choice

How did Hitler come to power in Germany in 1933?

• He was elected prime minister.

• He assassinated the president of the Weimar Republic.

• He forced the legislature to elect him.

• He was appointed chancellor.

Multiple Choice

Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were locked in a power struggle to lead the Soviet Union after

• the Russian Civil War.

• the Five Year Plans.

• the death of Lenin in 1924.

• V-E Day.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following does NOT describe the collectives in the Soviet Union?

• created a famine that killed millions

• helped to improve the lives and health of most Russians

• giant farms that used mechanization to grow more food

• started by Joseph Stalin

Multiple Choice

Japan invaded what part of China in 1931 to obtain the raw materials it needed to expand?

• Iwo Jima

• Manchuria

• Hiroshima

• Manchukuo

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How did the Japanese military leaders differ from the other totalitarian leaders in the 1930s?

• They allowed foreigners to come and go with very little restrictions.

• They expanded their borders by using their new military.

• They did not see the need to improve the economy

• They did not eliminate the old government but used the emperor to their advantage.

Multiple Choice

What was the problem with Hitler rebuilding the German military?

• Hitler nearly bankrupted

  Germany by building too many tanks and submarines.

• German spies stole French military plans and based the German military on them

• Hitler refused to allow Jews to serve in the German military

• Germany was forbidden to rearm by the Treaty of Versailles.

Multiple Choice

What happened during the Anschluss?

• Germany annexed Austria

• Italy invaded and conquered Ethiopia.

• The Soviet Union and Germany

  signed an alliance to not fight each other.

• France and England signed a treaty with Poland.

Multiple Choice

Which best describes the policy of Britain and France towards Nazi Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland and Rhineland?

• appeasement

• isolationism

• military engagement

• cautious neutrality

Multiple Choice

What happened during the Rape of Nanking?

• Korean and Chinese prisoners were used to fight the Soviets

• over 100,000 Chinese people are killed and brutalized by Japanese soldiers

• American soldiers liberate China from the Japanese

• Japanese military removes nearly all of the raw materials from northern China

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Non-Aggression Pact signed by Hitler and Stalin?

• Germany and the Soviet Union would not fight each other for ten years

• Germany and the Soviet Union would allow each others’ armies to travel through their territory.

• Germany and the Soviet Union would ally to defeat the Japanese.

• Germany and the Soviet Union would invade France and England

Multiple Choice

Which event marks the start of WWII?

• Germany's aggressive use of militarism

• Germany invading Poland

• Germany and the Soviets signing a pact

• Germany invading the Rhineland

Multiple Choice

When the German Luftwaffe flew over Great Britain they averaged 1,000 planes a day bombing

• Parliament and Windsor Castle

• schools and churches

• military bases and civilian targets

• air fields and naval yards

Multiple Choice

Operation Barbarossa began after Hitler ended the Battle of Britain. It was the invasion of what nation?

• Poland

• the United States

• the Soviet Union

• France

Multiple Choice

What did the United States do in an attempt to force Japan to stop expanding in the Pacific?

• cut off oil and coal shipments they were using to build the military

• assassinate Emperor Hirohito

• ally with China to force Japan out of Nanking

• invade Japan with forces from our bases in the Philippines

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What happened on December 7, 1941?

• Germany invaded Poland and started World War II.

• The final concentration camp was liberated by the Allies.

• The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

• The Soviets pushed the Nazis out of Stalingrad and back toward Germany.