WWII

How are dictators able  to rise to power after countries suffer hardships? 

• People want strong leaders to solve their problems.
• Dictators promise freedom. 
• Dictators allow everyone to vote. 
• Dictators promise to end fascism.

The Munich Pact incorporated this policy

• Isolationism

• Neurality

• Appeasement

What do Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin all have in common?

• they are Communist dictators

• they are Fascist rulers

• they are Totalitarian dictators

Britain and France had this policy toward Nazi Germany

• neutrality

• appeasement

• isolationism

The Soviet Union entered World War II ---

• in response to United States involvement

• after the D-Day invasion of Normandy

• after the defeat of the Bolshevik party

• in response to German invasion

The term appeasement refers to ---

• giving in to an aggressor to avoid war

• depending on allies to fight for you

• disarming to show your unwillingness to fight

• standing up for one's beliefs

In 1939, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany as a direct result of the German...

• invasion of Poland
• seizure of the Sudetenland
• occupation of the Rhineland
• annexation of Austria

In what way did the Treaty of Versailles establish conditions that led to the outbreak of WWII?

• It called for the dissolving of the League of Nations, thus removing an organization for resolving future conflicts
• It gave Germany too much power by letting Germany keep the Alsace-Lorraine region of France
• It weakened the Allied countries by making France, England, and Russia reduce the size of their armies
• It imposed harsh reparation payments on Germany, which led to economic and political instability

What are reparations?

• Payments made for damages caused during a war
• paying a tax on imported goods
• repairing a friendship between two or more countries

What is propaganda?

• Telling people misleading information to get them to believe what you want them to believe.

• Your favorite song on the radio.

• Spreading cultural beliefs from one group to another.

• The systematic killing of a group of people.