The Second World War World History Test Study Guide

The Nine Power Treaty was designed to . . .

• protect the territory of China.

• take advantage of Japan's weakness.

• avoid war in Europe.

• allow Hitler to take Asian territory.

Who was the founder of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Republic?

• Chiang Kai-shek

• Mao Zedong

• Tojo

• Sun Yat-sen

In 1931 Japan invaded the Chinese province of . . .

• Formosa.

• Manchuria.

• Midway.

• Mongolia.

Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek called a truce . . .

• the League of Nations asked them to.

• the Japanese invaded China.

• Mao renounced his communist beliefs.

• they had reached an agreement on sharing power in China.

Who succeeded Sun Yet-sen as the leader of the Kuomintang but could not completely defeat the Communists that opposed him?

• Mao Zedong

• Chiang Kai-shek

• Hideki Tojo

• Hirohito

In what nation did Mussolini launch a military invasion?

• Libya

• Algeria

• Morocco

• Ethiopia

• Egypt

In 1935 Mussolini invaded Ethiopia because . . .

• he needed oil for his machinery.

• a large number of Italians lived there.

• he hated Ethiopians.

• he wanted to average the Italians defeated there in the nineteenth century.

Adolf Hitler's first move build a German empire was his march into . . .

• the Sudetenland

• Denmark

• the Rhineland

• Russia

Adolf Hitler's militarizing the Rhineland violated which treaties?

• Locarno and Versailles

• Locarno and Warsaw

• Versailles and Kellogg-Briand

• Warsaw and Potsdam

During World War II the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan was known as the . . .

• Axis.

• Alliance for Progress.

• Central Powers.

• Comintern.