Honors World War II Review

Which of the following were causes of German territorial expansion prior to World War II?

• The Lend-Lease Act

• Loss of German territories.

• Harsh treatment from the Treaty of Versailles.

• Economic Depression

• The need for resources.

How were totalitarian governments in Europe able to take control of nations during the 1920s and 1930s?

• Fascist leaders offered solutions to problems posed by the economic depression.

• By taking power by force.

• By assassinating the current leaders.

• Fascist leaders put their own money into the government to improve the economic situation.

Which country did Italy invade in 1935?

• The US

• Libya

• Ethiopia

• Egypt

Why was the League of Nations unable to do its job?

• It didn't have a military.

• The US didn't join.

• It had no real power.

• No one really wanted the League in the first place.

In which places did Britain and France appease Nazi aggression during the 1930s?

• The Sudetenland

• Austria

• Bulgaria

• The Rhineland

• Czechoslovakia

Because Britain and France were unwilling to start another war, they followed a policy of __________ under British PM, Neville Chamberlain.

• Isolationism

• Appeasement

• Preemptive Strikes

• Espionage

This term means lightning warfare.

• Einstazgrupen

• Rasputitsa

• Blitzkrieg

• Abhörverbrecher

Because he wanted to terrorize the British people into surrendering, Hitler used ____________ to bomb major cities and industrial areas.

• Panzer Divisions

• Deutsche Marine

• KSK Kommando Spezialkräfte

• Luftwaffe

Laws that regulated what the Jewish population in Germany could and could not do were called

• Munich Laws

• Berlin Laws

• Nuremberg Laws

• Prussian Laws

Which policy changed concentration camps from being work camps to death camps?

• Nuremberg Laws

• Blitzkrieg

• Absiedlung

• The Final Solution