Chapter 12 Lesson 5 WWII

IMPACT Ch 12: WWII & the Holocaust

Part I: 1939-1941 in Europe

Multiple Select

Which policies failed to keep the peace with the Axis Powers?

• Preemptive strikes

• Diplomacy

• Compromise

• Appeasement

Multiple Choice

The main military strategy that Nazi Germany used at the start of WWII to quickly invade was called

• Luftwaffe

• appeasement

• blitzkrieg

• the Schlieffen Plan

Multiple Choice

The German airforce was called the

• Luftwaffe

• appeasement

• blitzkrieg

• Schlieffen Plan

Multiple Choice

In 1940 German troops poured into France, trapping British forces. They were mostly safely evacuated against all odds at the last minute in what is known as

• The Battle of the Bulge

• Operation Sea Lion

• the Attack on Pearl Harbor

• The Miracle at Dunkirk

Multiple Choice

Nazi Germany's puppet government in Southern France was called

• New France

• Vichy

• Dunkirk

• Operation Sea Lion

Multiple Choice

Hitler's plan to force Great Britain to surrender or soften it for invasion

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Operation Barbarossa

• blitzkrieg

• Operation Sea Lion

Multiple Choice

Nazi Germany's hugely successful commander defending Africa was _______, AKA "the Desert Fox"

• General Erwin Rommel

• Heinrich Himmler

• Benito Mousselini

• General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Multiple Choice

By 1941, the Axis Powers controlled ____ of Europe

• a quarter

• half

• most

• all

Operation Barbarossa

Multiple Choice

Hitler's Operation Barbarossa

• forced Stalin to surrender

• encouraged Stalin to join the Allies

• forced Stalin to join the Axis

• convinced the United States to join the war