The U.S. Enters World War II

What term describes a new form of dictatorship in which the government aimed to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens?

• totalitarian

• monarchy

• imperial

• socialist

What term was used to describe a political philosophy that advocated a strong, centralized, nationalistic government and glorified the state above the individual?

• militancy

• socialism

• democracy

• fascism

Hitler argued that Germany’s Weimar government betrayed the German people when it signed the “War-Guilt Clause” in the

• Nuremberg Laws.

• Dawes Act.

• Treaty of Versailles.

• Atlantic Charter.

Because Great Britain and France agreed to Hitler's seizure of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, what policy did the Munich Conference become associated with?

• appeasement

• containment

• interventionist

• the Five Year Plan

The Munich Conference in 1938 became a symbol of appeasement because

• Britain and France pressured the United States into entering the war after the conference.

• Britain and France entered into a formal defense alliance after the conference.

• Britain and France declared war on Germany.

• Britain and France submitted to Hitler’s demands in order to avoid conflict.

What did Hitler call his "lightening war"?

• detente

• containment

• blitzkrieg

• nightmare war

What is one reason the League of Nations didn't act to halt Japan's conquests in the Pacific and Hitler's conquests in Europe?

• Japan and Germany voted against intervention.

• The League couldn't count on the support of the U.S.

• The League no longer existed by 1929.

• The League was not powerful enough to halt them.

What, more so than anything else, probably helped pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression?

• the CCC, WPA, and PWA

• WWII spending

• Roosevelt's First Hundred Days

• the Emergency Banking Act

When WWII broke out in Europe, the U.S. passed a series of neutrality acts established __________ policy.

• an imperialist

• an isolationist

• a socialist

• a fascist

What U.S. foreign policy did Roosevelt confirm when he turned his back on the London Economic Conference in 1933?

• imperialism

• isolationism

• interventionism

• containment