WWII Review

This country was blamed for World War I and forced to pay huge war reparations to the Allies.

• France
• Great Britain
• Germany
• United States

In justifying the Lend-Lease plan FDR stated that the United States must become the "great ____________ of democracy"

• Protector
• Arsenal
• Supplier
• Foe

Manchuria was a logical target for Japanese expansion because

• it needed Japan's support.
• it once belonged to Japan.
• it had an abundance of natural resources.
• China wanted to rid itself of the area.

Who said this: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

• Franklin Roosevelt
• Winston Churchill
• Charles Lindbergh
• Joseph Stalin

When FDR called the Germans the “rattlesnakes of the Atlantic” he was talking about:

• The German invasion of Poland
• German submarines sinking supply ships
• The German air raids of London
• Germany’s attack of the Soviet Union

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII?

• Trotsky
• Stalin
• Mussolini
• Kruschev

Before 1934 Americans did not take Hitler's emotional speeches seriously because they

• felt that the German people did not support Hitler.
• were too preoccupied with domestic problems.
• did not understand the speeches.
• wanted the United States to gain world leadership.

The invasion of _________ by Germany sparked the official beginning of World War II.

• Poland
• Belgium
• France
• Soviet Union

WWII was fought from:

• 1941-1947
• 1939-1941
• 1939-1945
• 1933-1941

The Allies agreed early in 1942 that their first military goal would be the

• invasion of the Soviet Union.
• defeat of Japan.
• dropping of the atomic bomb.
• defeat of the Axis powers in Europe.