World War II

"It took the Big Four just five hours and twenty five minutes here in Munich today to dispel the clouds of war and come to an agreement over the partition of Czechoslovakia. There is to be no European war, after all. There is to be peace, and the price of that peace is, roughly, the ceding by Czechoslovakia of the Sudeten territory to Herr Hitler's Germany. The German

Führer gets what he wanted, only he has to wait a little longer for it. Not much longer though — only ten days. . . ."

The policy that France, Britain, and Italy chose to follow at this meeting is known as

• appeasement

• self-determination

• liberation

• pacification

The baby in this political cartoon represents

• Joseph Stalin

• Mao Zedong

• Adolf Hitler

• Otto Von Bismarck

Which was most likely a direct result of the policy depicted in this cartoon?

• Start of World War II

• Japanese imperialism

• Germany’s defeat in World War I

• Napoleonic Wars

Which event is most closely associated with the start of World War II in Europe?

• invasion of Poland by Nazi forces

• signing of the Munich Agreement

• building of the Berlin Wall

• assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

The Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and Hitler’s rebuilding of the German military in 1935 demonstrate the

• success of defensive alliances

• fear of communist expansion

• support for the Treaty of Versailles

• failure of the League of Nations