WWII Review - Ch. 13&14

What type of government considered the nation more important than the individual?

• Dictatorship

• Monarchy

• Fascism

• Democracy

What did Hitler call Germany’s quick strike military strategy?

• Blitzkrieg

• Kristallnacht

• Anchluss

• Gestapo

__________, such as oil, steel, and iron supplies, were used by the United States to put pressure on Japan.

• Rationed items

• Strategic materials

• Lend-Lease goods

• Cash and Carry materials

Which factor encouraged an American policy of neutrality during the 1930’s?

• Disillusionment with WWI and its results

• Decline in the military readiness of other nations

• Repeal of Prohibition

• Economic prosperity of the period

In the 1930’s the US respond to the rise of fascism in Europe by

• invading Germany and Italy.

• forming military alliances.

• passing a series of neutrality laws.

• joining the League of Nations.

When France fell to the Nazis, the French and British evacuated thousands of troops from

• Dunkirk.

• Danzig.

• Buchenwald.

• Poland.

Concentration camps and extermination camps were part of what Nazis called

• justice for all.

• the "final solution."

• population control.

• the last straw.

In 1939, the immediate response of the US to the start of WWII in Europe was to

• modify its neutrality policy by providing aid to the Allies.

• declare war on Germany and Italy.

• strengthen its isolationist position by ending trade with Britain.

• send troops to the Allied nations to act as advisors.

Why did the US enter the war in 1941?

• Blitzkrieg over Poland

• Bombing of Pearl Harbor

• Embargo on Japan

• Sinking of the Lusitania

Why were the British able to prevent the Germans from invading their country?

• The US joined the Allied forces.

• Germany could not penetrate the Maginot Line.

• France defeated Germany and pushed them back into Belgium.

• Britain had developed radar stations to detect German aircraft.