Causes of WWII

Who was the President at the beginning of World War II?

• Herbert Hoover

• Calvin Coolidge

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

What was the name of the agreement that ended World War I?

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Ghent

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Nuremberg Trials

Giving in to the demands of Hitler was called....

• Atonement

• Approval

• Appeasement

• Accordance

Who was the leader of the USSR (Soviet Union) during WWII?

• Benito Mussolini

• Joseph Stalin

• Winston Churchill

• Ivan the Terrible

Who was the totalitarian dictator of Italy during WWII?

• Winston Churchill

• Vladimir Lenin

• Enzo Ferrari

• Benito Mussolini

What two countries thought they were racially superior to others leading up to WWII?

• China and Russia

• Japan and Germany

• Italy and England

• France and Poland

What was America's foreign policy during the 1930's (before WWII)?

• Forming an alliance with Japan

• Isolationism and neutrality

• Forming an alliance with Germany

• Aggression: taking islands in the Pacific

How did Adolf Hitler rise to power?

• He assassinated the German Chancellor

• He set fire to the Reichstag (German legislative branch)

• He was born into his position of power.

• He promised to bring Germany back to glory.

What event brought America into World War II?

• Stock Market Crash

• Siege of the Alamo

• Assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

What groups of people did Hitler blame for Germany's problems during the 1930's?

• Gypsies and Jews

• Aryans and Christians

• Women and children

• Farmers and miners