Chapter 16 World War II

All of the following were leaders of totalitarian governments except

• Joseph Stalin
• Francisco Franco
• Benito Mussolini
• Neville Chamberlain

At the end of World War I, many new democracies were established in Europe.  In the years between the two world wars, most of these democracies

• thrived
• became communist
• were torn apart by civil wars
• were replaced by dictatorships

Where the first Fascist government formed?  

• Italy
• Japan
• Spain
• Germany

Which of the following did Adolf Hitler oppose?  

• Kristallnacht
• the Munich Pact
• the Nuremberg Laws
• the Treaty of Versailles

Britain and France were drawn into war with Germany because

• Hitler had taken power in Germany
• They had promised military aid to Poland
• Germany had attacked Czechoslovakia
• Germany had pulled out of the League of Nations.  

The Nazis practiced genocide, which is the 

• acting out of anti-semitic beliefs
• deliberate extermination of a specific group of people
• terrorizing of the citizens of a nation by a government
• killing of people for the express purpose of creating terror.  

The German blitzkrieg was a military strategy that depended on

• a system of fortifications
• "out-waiting" the opponent.  
• surprise and overwhelming force.  
• the ability to make a long, steady advance.  

Britain and France adopted a policy of appeasement toward Germany

• before the war began.  
• when they declared war.  
• when the United States declared war.  
• after France was invaded and divided. 

The United States entered World War II as a direct result of 

• the attack on Pearl Harbor
• the invasion and division of France
• the invasion and division of Poland
• attacks on U.S. ships in the Atlantic

Which nations came to be known as the Axis powers after they signed a mutual defense treaty in 1940?  

• Germany, Japan, and Italy
• Germany, Japan and Spain
• Germany, Italy and Austria
• Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union