WW2 23-24

Following World War I, nations again began to form alliances. All of the following

nations joined the Axis Powers EXCEPT

• Great Britain

• Japan

• Italy

• Germany

Hitler’s actions as expressed by the above political cartoon led Stalin to

• adopt a policy of appeasement.

• take over Germany’s industry.

• join the Allies in the fight against Germany.

• reduce the size of the Soviet army.

The Soviet Union’s response to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

(NATO) was to create the ___________________.

• Warsaw Pact

• Glasgow Truce

• European Union

• Polish Pack

What World War II event does the quote describe?

• The Blitzkrieg of London

• D-Day invasion of Normandy

• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• The use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Which nation, created after World War II, is the passage referring to?

• Poland

• Germany

• Israel

• Ethiopia

These laws reflect the German government's early policies of

• censorship of criticism in the press.

• discrimination of Jews.

• territorial aggression.

• laissez-faire economics.

Sort the World War II leaders placing them with the nation they represented.

• Benito Mussolini

• Soviet Union

• Josef Stalin

• Italy

• Winston Churchill

• Germany

• Adolf Hitler

• Great Britain

• Franklin Roosevelt

• United States

A major purpose of Stalin's five-year plan in the Soviet Union was to

• seek direct foreign investment.

• eliminate government controlled economic planning.

• increase industrialization and the production of steel and machinery.

• produce more citrus and tropical fruits.

The World War II military action shown on this map was significant because it

• took the pressure off the war in the Pacific

• led directly to the war crimes trials in Nuremberg

• caused Germany to resort to unrestricted submarine warfare

• forced Germany to fight the Allies in France and on the eastern front

The systematic murder of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II is known as

• The Blitzkrieg

• The Holocaust

• D-Day

• Operation Overlord