WW2 - Causes Review

The name of the agreement signed at the end of WW1 was

• The Treaty of Versailles
• The Peace Clause
• The League of Nations
• The Treaty of Berlin

Who was the leader of the Fascist party in Italy?

• Adolf Hitler
• Woodrow Wilson
• Benito Mussolini
• Joseph Stalin

What was one of the first things Hitler did that violated the Versailles Treaty and was necessary for his later plans?

• Take the Sudetenland

  (Czechoslovakia)

• Rebuild the German army

• Unite with Austria

• Invade Poland

Which country "united" w/ Germany in 1938? (Whether they really wanted to or not...)

• Austria

• Poland

• France

• Hungary

What did Britain and France agree to "give" to Germany in the Munich Agreement in 1938 (in the hope that this would be his last territorial expansion)?

• Alsace-Lorraine (part of France)

• Austria

• Sudetenland

  (part of Czechoslovakia)

• Poland

What did Hitler do the year after the "Munich Agreement" (where he had promised just the opposite)?

• Hitler took over the rest of Czechoslovakia and also invaded Poland

• Hitler invaded France

• Hitler made a deal with Stalin

• Hitler made world peace

Why did Britain and France finally declare war on Germany?

• Because Hitler invaded Poland

• Because Hitler stopped paying reparations

• Because Hitler was persecuting Jewish people

• Because Hitler invaded France

What are TWO ways that people justified appeasement?

• Securing Britain against social upheaval at home

• Strengthening Germany in order to protect Western Europe from communism

• Germany had some legitimate complaints after the Treaty of Versailles

• Maintaining the balance of power in Europe

• Wanted to avoid another devastating war like the "Great War" twenty years earlier

During the mid-to-late 1930s, most people in Britain supported the policy of appeasement because they wanted to avoid war.

• True

• False

The practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war.

• Kindness

• Isolationism

• Appeasement
• Blitzkrieg