The Coming of War & Dictators

What is a dictator?

• A person that has absolute control over a nation and its people
• A person that is elected by the people and answers to their will
• A person that runs the government with limits to their power
• A person that rules a nation fairly and justly

What country did Mussolini lead?

• Italy
• Germany
• France
• The United Kingdom

Of what nation was Joseph Stalin the leader?

• The Soviet Union
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan

Which of the following acts that Hitler did was a violation of the Treaty of Versailles?

• Put German troops in the Rhineland
• United Germany with Austria
• Demanded territory that used to belong to Germany
• ALL of these were violations

What was the Sudetenland?

• A region in Czechoslovakia that was filled with German people
• A region in Germany that was filled with Czechs
• The land that was on the border of France and Germany
• The region where the Sudets lived in Spain

What was the term for the British allowing Hitler to have the Sudetenland later referred as?

• Appeasement
• The Munich Peace Plan
• The Great Deal
• Hitler's Magnificent Promise

What event officially started World War II?

• Hitler taking over as leader of Germany
• Germany invading Czechosloavkia
• Germany invading Poland
• Germany invading France

What nation invaded Manchuria (Northern China) in 1931?

• Japan
• The United States
• Germany
• The Soviet Union

What was going on in the 1930's that led to several dictators around the world coming to power?

• The Great Depression
• The New Deal
• The Panic of Central Europe
• The Prosperity of the Great Nations

Idea that a country should focus on its own problems and avoid international commitments

• isolationism

• Axis Powers

• fascism

• Mein Kampf

• Manchuria