Causes of WWII/ Germany

This list BEST summarizes events that led to the start of

• WWI
• The Cold War
• WWII
• Russo-Japanese War

European leaders of England and France were slow to stop the advances of Hitler and Mussolini because

• they believed Hitler was harmless.
• the League of Nations prevented them acting against Hitler and Mussolini.
• with the European economy booming, they failed to take the threat seriously.
• they were still reeling from World War I and hoped to avoid another large-scale conflict.

The Final Solution refers to

• Germany's plan to win World War II.
• the Allies plan to win World War I.
• Hitler's plan to eliminate Jewish people in all of Germany.
• the clause in the Treaty of Versailles to create a League of Nations.

 What did Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union have in common during the World War II era?

• They were all fascist states.
• They were all totalitarian states.
• They had not recovered from the depression.
• They were all members of the Allied Powers.

"The Holocaust" of World War II generally refers to the

• treatment of Chinese people by Japan in the late 1930s.
• bombing of the interior regions of Germany by Allied bombers.
• internment of Japanese-Americans in the United States during World War II.
• planned murder of Jews, gypsies, communists, and others by the German government.

The leader of the Soviet Union during World War II was

• Khrushchev
• Lenin
• Stalin
• Trotsky

Benito Mussolini MOST LIKELY annexed Ethiopia into the colony of Italian East Africa because he

• considered them a potential economic rival.
• wanted to overtake colonies to build a large empire.
• saw an opportunity to take strategic land from Germany.
• believed he should eradicate an entire group of people.

believed he should eradicate an entire group of people

Based on this chart, it is evident that a major cause of World War II was

• the failed economic policies during the Great Depression.
• the warlike attitude of countries in the Pacific Ocean region.
• the failure of the League of Nations to stop the aggressive behaviors of some countries.
• the reluctance of European countries to look outside of their borders after World War I.

"Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed." 
- Diary of a Young Girl (1947), entry dated April 11, 1944The quote is referring to what period in history?

• World War I
• The Holocaust
• The Great Depression
• The Russian Revolution

· November 1938
· Vandalism of Jewish Businesses
· Destruction of synagogues
· Arrest of over 20,000 Jewish peopleAll of these are associated with

• Kristallnacht.
• Einsatzgruppen.
• the Nuremberg Laws.
• the Final Solution.