World War II - Eliopoulos

According to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany had to accept responsibility for WWI & pay penalties to the Allies called:

• debits
• reparations
• fines
• indemnities

What diplomatic body failed due to its inability to enforce the Treaty of Versailles?

• Versailles Council
• Congress of Vienna
• United Nations
• League of Nations

Anti-semitic laws passed in Germany in the 1930s eventually lead to the:

• invasion of the Soviet Union
• invasion of Poland
• Great Purge
• Holocaust

WWII would officially begin after what German action prompted Britain & France to declare war in September of 1939?

• invasion of France
• invasion of Czechoslovakia
• invasion of Soviet Union
• invasion of Poland

Which individual authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan in order to bring the war to an end?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Winston Churchill
• Harry S. Truman
• Dwight D. Eisenhower

A communist dictatorship in the Soviet Union led by:

• Joseph Stalin
• Emperor Hirohito
• Adolf Hitler
• Benito Mussolini

The systematic & purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group is called:

• enslavement
• annihilation
• genocide
• germ warfare

Why did Hitler seize Austria?

• Austria had natural resources necessary for German industry
• Austria was viewed as an enemy nation
• Hitler was worried about Austrian territorial ambitions
• Hitler believed in uniting the German-speaking peoples of Europe

During the decades before WWII, industrialization in Japan led to a growing demand for:

• Democracy
• immigrant labor
• natural resources outside of Jap
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The USA ended its policy of isolationism and was pulled into WWII after what event?

• the Japanese invasion of INdochina
• the German assault on Paris
• the German siege of Leningrad
• the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor