World War II

What was the United States foreign policy before World War II?

• direct involvement

• aid to Axis Powers

• supported Japan

• isolationism

A political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied is called

• direct democracy

• monarchy

• representative democracy

• fascism

The persons in the pictures were World War II leaders of the

• League of Nations

• Axis Powers

• The Allies

• Central Powers

Invaded by the Germans in Sept. 1939?

• France
• Sweden
• Poland
• Canada

Three weeks after the invasion of Poland, Roosevelt persuaded Congress to provide lethal aid to which two countries?

• Spain & Portugal
• Britain & France
• Italy & Japan
• Japan & Soviet Union

In September 1940, President Roosevelt began limiting scrap iron and steel to this country?

• Japan
• Italy
• Soviet Union
• France

The Nuremberg Laws & Kristallnacht were the early stages of what?

• The Holocaust
• Anschluss
• Lebensraum
• Third Reich

In 1945 American & Soviet troops liberated Nazi concentration camps, which were used to eliminate which of the following groups?

• Jews
• the disabled & POW's
• homosexuals & Gypsies
• All of them

What punished Germany harshly & became the basis for Hitler's European conquests?

• Treaty of Versailles
• Atlantic Charter
• Treaty of Paris
• Dawes & Young Plan

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Hoping to avoid war, Great Britain and France adopted a policy of appeasement and gave in to Germany's demand for more territory.

• True
• False

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