Chapter 7: World WAR II

What did Italy, Germany, and Japan have in common in the 1930s?

• They overturned governments and established democracies.

• They were economic giants

• They sought to solve their nations’ problems by conquest.

• They angered other nations by their persecution of the Jews.

Both Mussolini and Hitler saw expansion of their territory as a way to increase

• national pride.

• pressure on their neighbors.

• goodwill toward their neighbors.

• pressure on their enemies.

In 1932, Manchuria was taken over by

• Hitler and the Germans.

• Stalin and the Soviets.

• the Japanese Military.

• France and Nationalists.

After the Allies gained control of Africa, what was their next target and why?

• France--because it was the biggest threat in Europe.

• Japan--because they won key islands in the Pacific.

• Russia--because Stalin's forces lose major battles.

• Italy--because it was the weakest part of Axis territory in Europe.

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) believed in

• segregation.

• using nonviolent techniques to end racism.

• integration.

• using violent protests to end racism.

What led the government to evacuate Japanese Americans from the West Coast?

• long-held prejudice, and fears inflamed by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

• terrorist attacks by immigrants living on the West Coast.

• fear for the safety of Japanese Americans on the West Coast.

• refusal of the Nisei to accept United States citizenship.

Hitler used the military tactic know as blitzkrieg, which is

• using many weapons to strike quickly.

• using radar technology to help defend from an attack.

• attacking on with U-boats.

• giving in to avoid conflict.

In 1940, one of the greatest rescues in the history of warfare occurred...

• in Denmark and Norway.

• in the Netherlands.

• at the Maginot Line.

• at Dunkirk.

The policy of appeasement is...

• organizing several peace talks between enemies.

• letting countries borrow supplies during a war.

• giving in to competitors' demands to make peace.

• sending military aid to all nations at war.

What finally brought an end to World War II?

• a massive soviet invasion of the Japanese islands.

• the appeasement of Germany.

• a US naval blockade of Japan.

• dropping of the atomic bomb by the US on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.