WWII Prelude & Beginning

What part of China did Japan invade in 1931?

• Tibet

• Nanjing

• Manchuria

• Taiwan

Where did Japanese forces commit brutal & cruel massacres & rapes of Chinese civilians in 1937?

In 1936, Japan allied with what TWO European countries?

• Nazi Germany

• Fascist Italy

• Communist Russia

• Great Britain

• Zionist Palestine

What country is shown on this map, with Tokyo as its capital?

In March 1938, Nazi Germany annexed _______, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, but the Allied powers did not declare war.

• Austria

• France

• Poland

• Denmark

Why did Hitler demand that the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia be given to Germany?

• Because most of the people there spoke German

• Because the area contained important oil resources

• Because Hitler was born in that area

• Because that area had been part of Germany before WWI

What country demanded & received the northern half of Transylvania from Romania, based on the claim that most of the people there didn't speak Romanian?

• Germany

• Hungary

• France

• Japan

What small European kingdom did Italy annex in 1939, five months before WWII began?

• Italy

• Albania

• Spain

• Czechoslovakia

What African kingdom, previously independent, did Italy invade in 1935, using modern weapons to decimate the native defenders?

• Ethiopia

• Brazil

• Portugal

• Australia

T/F: The League of Nations effectively stopped the Axis powers from invading & annexing neighboring territories in the 1930s.

• TRUE

• FALSE