Unit 8 Inter War, World War 2, & Genocides

Select all of the countries that fell to dictators during this period.

• Italy
• Japan
• Russia
• Germany
• United States

During the decades before World War II, industrialization in Japan led to a growing demand for —

• Democracy
• Natural Resources
• Immigrant labor
• Universities

Who invaded Ethiopia just before World War 2?

• Stalin
• Hitler
• Mussolini
• Churchill

What is genocide, as practiced by the Nazis?

• The broadcasting of anti-semitic ideas
• The deliberate extermination of a specific group of people
• The abuse of a nation’s citizens by their own government
• The killing of people in order to create terror

Who was Douglas MacArthur?

• Allied leader of Operation Overlord
• Admiral of the Allied Army in the Pacific
• President who asked to declare war on Japan

National Socialism (Nazism) was Germany’s form of:

• communism
• federalism
• fascism
• Semitism

What nation was defeated at the Battle of Midway (a turning point in the war)?

• the Soviet Union
• the United States
• Japan
• Great Britain

Which of the following is the correct list of the Axis countries?

• Britain, France, Africa
• Japan, Italy, Russia
• Italy, Russia, Belgium
• Germany, Japan, Italy

Which of the following did the Nuremberg Trials address?

• The Holocaust
• The use of nuclear bombs
• The firebombing of Dresden
• The internment of Japanese-American citizens

What was the goal of Hitler’s Final Solution?

• It was a process to divide up his territories among his generals
• It was a system for winning the war before the Americans entered
• It was a way to amass more soldiers for the invasion of Russia
• It was genocide of people the Nazis considered inferior