Unit 7 World War II

The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain supported this policy in 1938.

• Isolationism

• Appeasement

• Aggression

• Pansy

Which country's act of aggression was invading Ethiopia as a way to punish them for being the only African country to resist imperialism and as a way to use their new weapons cache.

• Germany

• Italy

• Japan

• Russia

During the Spanish Civil War, Germany supported the Spanish Fascist and helped by sending troops, military supplies, and using the German Luftwaffe to drop incendiary bombs on this town.

• Barcelona

• Granada

• Guernica

• Madris

What does the Rape of Nanking (Nanjing) in 1937 refer to?

• When China took control over Japan.

• Japanese civil war which ended the empire.

• Japanese conquest of China 1937, soldiers rape, torture, and kill civilians.

• Violence over the role of women in Japan. Women wanted the right to vote.

Leading up to the war Hitler show aggression by doing the following...

• Invading Czechoslovakia

• Remilitarizing the Rhineland

• Building up the German Navy and Army

• Meeting with Great Britain and France to come to a peaceful solution

Why did Winston Churchill oppose appeasement?

• He saw it as a political opportunity to advance his career by replacing Prime Minister Eden.

• He believed the policy of appeasement was cowardly and gave away too much to aggressive powers.

• He preferred Britain adopt a policy of isolationism by not participating in the international economic and political relations with rival European powers.

• He had personally fought in the Spanish Civil War and saw the destructive power of totalitarian militaries.

Which of the following is an example of the failure of appeasement?

• The Munich Pact

• Hitler's Final Solution

• German invasion of Poland

• Yalta Conference with Great Britain and the USSR

Why did Hitler sign a non-aggression treaty with Stalin on the eve of World War II

• To prevent the League of Nations from acting to stop the war

• To allow Germany to invade poland with Soviet opposition

• To insure Germany had direct access to the Baltic Sea

• To show that Hitler had changed his views on communism

A set of acts supported by Franklin D. Roosevelt and passed by Congress that were supposed to keep the United States out of World War II by making it illegal to sell or transport arms to belligerent nations is called?

• The Lend and Lease Program

• Cash and Carry Act

• Isolationist Acts

• The Neutrality Acts

Fill in the blank: President Roosevelt signed the ______ bill into law on MArch 11, 1941. It permitted him to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lase

• Lend and Lease Act

• Neutrality Acts

• Smoot Hawley Tariff Act

• Isolationist Act