WWII Sections 1 & 2

Who maintained control of the Soviet Union by killing and imprisoning his political enemies

• Winston Churchill

• Joseph Stalin

• Adolf Hitler

• Hideki Tojo

Who blamed Jewish people, intellectuals, and Communists for Germany’s problems after World War I?

• Joseph Stalin

• Benito Mussolini

• Adolf Hitler

• Hirohito

What policy allowed the United States to provide aid to any nation vital to its defense before the United States had entered the war?

• the Atlantic Charter

• Lend-Lease Act

• Neutrality Proclamation

• nonaggression pact

Leader who gained complete control of Italy in 1922

• Benito Mussolini

• Joseph Stalin

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Neville Chamberlain

Political system in which the government is seen as more important than individuals; has a strong militaristic leader and strong sense of nationalism

• fascism

• capitalism

• socialism

Policy of avoiding war with an aggressive nation by giving in to its demands

• Lend-Lease

• appeasement

• Luftwaffe

• totalitarianism

the government agency that oversaw the conversion of factories to war production

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Liberty Ships

• Office of Price Administration

• War Production Board

Why did Great Britain and France finally declare war on Germany in September 1939?

• Hitler signed a non aggression pact with Stalin threatening the Allies

• Hitler signed an alliance with Mussolini, forming the Axis Powers

• They had pledged to defend Poland against Hitler, who attacked it from the west

• They had formed an international army to fight Hitler, whose forces trapped thousands of soldiers in Czechoslovakia

Why did Hitler direct his anger towards intellectuals, Communists, and Jews in the 1930s?

• He felt they threatened his authority.

• He blamed them for Germany’s economic problems and its defeat in World War I

• They opposed the National Socialist Party, keeping it from winning a majority in Parliament.

• He was fearful they would band together and start another world war.

Why did Japan plan a largescale attack against the U.S. naval fleet at Pearl Harbor?

• It wanted to give itself time to secure control of East Asia before the U.S. military could respond.

• It wanted to punish the United States for sending billions of dollars in aid to Chinese Nationalists.

• It wanted to defend its German and Soviet allies against a U.S. invasion.