World War II Review

Who became the dictator of Italy in the mid 1920's? (last name only)

Who was the fascist leader of Germany?

Under fascism, power is given to who?

• The people

• The political party voted in by the people

• The supreme leader

A single party controls the government and every aspect of people's lives.

• Totalitarianism
• Fascism
• Appeasement
• Auschwitz

An ideology rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, racism, and blind loyalty to the state.

• Totalitarianism
• Facism
• Genocide
• Blitzkrieg

Who promised to restore Germany to its former power?

• Joseph Stalin
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Napoleon Bonaparte

Why is it said that after the USA adopts its Lend-Lease Act, it is neutral in name only?

• Citizens were begging its government to stay out of the war

• USA is technically neutral by not actively fighting but is involved b/c it picked favorites to give military supplies

Roosevelt and Churchill met near Newfoundland in 1941 and agreed on the text of the

• Export Control Act.

• Neutrality Act.

• Lend-Lease Act.

• Atlantic Charter.

What finally brought the United States into World War II?

• sinking of the Reuben James

• Americans' horror at the persecution of the people by Nazis

• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• the Atlantic Charter

In which WWII event did Japan use the strategy of surprise attack to bomb the United States? 

• D-Day on the shores of France
• Pearl Harbor
• Invasion of Poland
• V-E Day