Spring Semester Practice Test

Both Mussolini and Hitler saw expansion of their territory as a way to increase

• goodwill toward their neighbors

• pressure on their neighbors

• national pride

• pressure on their enemies

In 1932, Manchuria was taken over by

• Hitler and the Germans

• the Japanese military

• Franco and the Nationalists

• Stalin and the Soviets

During the 1930s, Mussolini and the military leaders of Japan

• bolstered national pride by calling for free elections

• began invading neighboring lands

• had monopoly on world trade

• organized the League of Nations

Lebensraum was the term Hitler used that meant

• a dream of German domination of all Europe

• a dream of German domination of the Soviet Union

• more living space for the Germans

• more power for Germany over Italy

After Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia and made a pact with Stalin, he invaded

• Japan

• Poland

• France

• England

In 1940, one of the greatest rescues in the history of warfare occurred

• at the Maginot Line

• in Denmark and Norway

• in the Netherlands

• at Dunkirk

The America First Committee wanted to

• block further aid to Britain

• enter the war

• attack Germany

• bomb Japan

What historical event contributed to the rise of fascism in both Italy and Germany, and to the rise of totalitarianism in the Soviet Union?

• World War I

• the Spanish Civil War

• the Nuremberg Party rally

• the Russian Revolution

The Vichy government of France adopted which of the following policies after Germany conquered France?

• appeasement

• surrender

• collaboration

• resistance

Who inspired the British people to resist the German invasion?

• Winston Churchill

• Joseph Stalin

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Charles de Gaulle