Axis Powers Advance (18.2)

Why was Operation Sea Lion a failure?

• British citizens joined the war effort by fighting Germans in the streets of London.

• Nazi forces couldn’t tolerate the harsh British winter.

• The British navy repelled invading Nazi armies.

• The German air force was unable to defeat the British air force.

What was one result of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union?

• Germany gained access to Soviet factories and farms.

• Germany was able to take control of Leningrad.

• Churchill and Stalin became allies.

• Stalin fled the Soviet Union.

The Lend-Lease Act was adopted prior to U.S. entry into World War II primarily because this act would

• stop the spread of communism.

• help Allied nations without the United States entering the war.

• create jobs to end the Great Depression and World War II.

• convince the American people that was was necessary.

Germany’s rapid success in the first months of the war was largely due to the

• use of the blitzkrieg, which caught countries unprepared.

• superiority of German naval forces.

• continuing appeasement policy of Britain and France.

• support the League of Nations.

Why did France surrender to Germany?

• France was overrun by German and Italian forces.

• France did not receive military support from Britain.

• France was unable to fund its war effort.

• The French people favored Hitler.

Which of the following was an effect of British resistance to Germany?

• It persuaded other nations in Europe to rise up against Hitler.

• It saved Britain from German invasion.

• It forced Hitler to surrender and ended fighting in Western Europe.

• It caused the United States and the Soviet Union to declare war on Germany.

What was an immediate effect of the Lend-Lease Act?

• Japan declared war against the United States.

• Western Europe recovered from the damage caused by

  World War II.

• The United States provided critical aid to Great Britain and the Soviet Union.

• The Soviet Union declared war on Germany.

Why did Japan attack the United States?

• Japan wanted to gain control of Hawaii.

• The United States had sent troops to Southeast Asia to support Britain.

• The United States was threatening to bomb the Japanese mainland.

• The United States was interfering with Japan’s plan to expand its empire.

Why did Japan decide to attack the United States on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor?

• Because the United States had imposed an embargo on all Japanese made goods.

• To honor their alliance when the United States declared war on Germany and Italy.

• To access the oil resources located off the coast of Hawaii.

• Because the Japanese believed the United States was interfering with their efforts to build a Pacific empire.

The German army was slowed down during its invasion of the Soviet Union because

• the Japanese stopped fighting the Russians after bombing Pearl Harbor.

• the Soviet Union unleashed new weapons against the Germans.

• the German army was unprepared for the harsh Russian winter.

• the United States entered the war drawing German troops from the east.