Appeasement and War

Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles by doing all of the following except

• tripled size of miltiary

• continued paying reparations

• occupied the Rhineland

• constructed the Anschluss

The Munich Agreement said

• Germany gets the Sudetenland
• Germany cannot occupy the Sudetenland
• Czechoslovakia gets to decide whether Germany gets the Sudetenland or not

The practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war.

• Genocide
• Mein Kampf
• Appeasement
• Blitzkrieg

Why did France and Britain use appeasement to stop Hitler

• They wanted to avoid another World War
• Prevent a Nazi invasion of Russia
• To prevent the fall of the league of Nations
• Didn't want to anger Germans

How did the policy of appeasement lead to WWII?

• European powers let Germany get away with aggressive maneuvers until it was too late

• It caused the global economic depression

• France let Germany invade with little resistance

• It prevented Germany from developing its military, thus angering German leadership

The area of Czechoslovakia inhabited by ethnic Germans coincided with the country's western border, that formed a mountainous U shape. What was the name given to this region?

• Bohemia

• Silesia

• The Sudetenland

• Moravia

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At first, European leaders gave into Hitler's demands using what type of policy?

• aggression

• advancement

• internment

• appeasement

Which set would be the Axis Powers? 

• Germany, Japan, Italy
• Germany, Poland, Japan
• Japan, Italy, Russia
• Russia, Germany, Japan

Which phrase best describes what the US position was at the start of WWII? 

• They stayed Neutral. 
• They joined the Allies
• They joined the Axis Powers 
• They teamed up with the Triple Entente

Why was this night known as "the night of the broken glass"

• Someone broke a glass cup and forgot to clean it up

• The nazi's were playing baseball and broke a window

• The nazi's broke through synagogues, schools, and other jewish buildings, and broken glass was all over the streets

• The jews threw glass at SS officers as a protest

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