World War II--WH

A factor in leading many Germans to accept Hitler and the Nazis was

• Hitler’s abolition of the Reichstag

• The regime’s temporary suspension of all crime for four years

• The Catholic Church’s support of the new regime

• The belief that Hitler had ended Germany’s economic depression

The Nonagression Pact was signed between what two countries?

• France and Germany

• Germany and Soviet Union

• Germany and Poland

• Italy and Germany

What was Japan's main motivation for expansion?

• revenge on China for centuries of oppression

• rivalry with the Soviet Union

• new union with Germany and Italy

• the need for raw materials

Hitler demanded, and was given, what area in northwestern Czechoslovakia?

• Slovakia

• Danzig

• Serbia

• Sudetenland

What was the significance of Italy invading Ethiopia?

• forced the League of Nations to impose sanctions

• Italy became a world power

• the Treaty of Versailles was broken

• Hitler was unimpressed because Ethiopia was in Africa

What did Stalin want when he signed the agreement with Hitler

• part of Poland

• part of Manchuria

• part of France

• part of Africa

Two days after Hitler’s invasion of ______, Britain and France declared war on Germany.

• Poland

• Austria

• France

• Slovakia

Hitler’s blitzkrieg, or “lightning war,” was

• A new form of warfare that used airplanes exclusively for the first wave of attack

• A form of attack that used the Luftwaffe, panzers, and infantry

• A strategy in which armies rested very little between attacks to wear the enemy down more quickly

• An air force strategy that combined jets and helicopters in a single attack

What was the Rome Berlin Axis?

• An agreement between Nazis and the Soviets

• An agreement between Mussolini and Hitler

• The Allies’ plan for invading Germany

• The strategic railroad that connected Rome and Berlin

The only country to impose sanctions on Japan cutting off their oil and iron scrap supplies was

• China

• Great Britain

• Soviet Union

• United States