WH - Lesson 26 - WWII

In 1933, after the League of Nations pressured ________ to return Manchuria to China and formally protested efforts by ________ to rebuild its military, both countries left the organization.

• Japan; France

• Soviet Union; Italy

• Japan; Germany

• Germany; Italy

The agreement made between France, Britain, and Germany at the Munich Conference was an example of the policy of _____________.

• Appeasement

• Embargo

• Isolationism

• Militarism

What strategy allowed the Germans to achieve remarkable military success at the beginning of World War II?

• Blitzkrieg

• Counterattack

• The Schlieffen Plan

• Submarine Warfare

By the summer of 1941, what nation was the last holdout against Germany's complete domination of Europe?

• Belgium

• France

• Great Britain

• Italy

The declaration of post-war aims formulated in 1941 by Roosevelt and Churchill was known as the ______________.

• Atlantic Charter

• Munich Pact

• Treaty of Versailles

• United Nations

After Japan's attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, the United States...

• Became even more determined to stay out of the war

• began arms shipments to China to help them fight the Japanese

• entered World War II on the side of the Allies

• imposed a trade embargo against Japan

Why did the Allies bomb the German city of Dresden?

• to destroy Nazi death camps

• to disable its oil production

• to test the atomic bomb

• to weaken civilian morale

How did the Allied forces liberate France from the Nazis?

• the drove the Germans out of Italy and invaded France from the south

• they crossed the Mediterranean from North Africa and landed on the French coast

• They worked with the French resistance and successfully overthrew the Vichy government

• they crossed the English Channel and invaded northern France

The Battle of the Bulge in Belgium marked Germany's...

• first use of blitzkrieg tactics

• last offensive of the war

• final triumph over the Soviets

• conquest of France

The Nazi "final solution" was a plan to...

• develop and use the atomic bomb

• exterminate the Jews of Europe

• launch spy satellites into space

• overthrow Stalin in the Soviet Union