World War 2 Part 1 Quizizz

Giving into aggressive demands to maintain peace is

• not wise

• never leads to peace

• appeasement

• all of the above

• none of the above

Who condemned Neville Chamberlain's weak foreign policy toward Germany as cowardly and predicted it would lead to war?

• William Atchison

• Adolph Hitler

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Charles de Gaulle

• Winston Churchill

In March 1939 Hitler ignored the Munich Agreement he had signed with Chamberlain and sent his troops into what remained of _______, capturing it without a fight.

• Czechoslovakia
• Munich

• Poland

• Russia

In August of 1939, Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with _______, in order to reassure them he would not invade them as Germany continued to expand.

• Japan

• Poland

• Great Britian

• Russia

What happened on September 1, 1939 that would forever change the world?

• Poland was invaded

• World War II began

• Germany claimed it had been attacked by Poland

• all of the above

• none of the above

What was the military strategy that featured an overwhelming combination of air attack and fast-moving armored strikes to drive deep into enemy territory?

• Paristroika

• Shock and Awe

• Blitzkrieg

Who became known as the Allies during World War II?

• Germany & the Soviet Union

• France & Great Britain

• Great Britain & Germany

• The Soviet Union & Poland

• none of the above

What was the other name given to the "sitzkrieg" that occurred in the winter of 1939-1940 when, to the surprise of the Allies, Hitler did not attack?

• The phony war

• The quiet war

• The silent war

• The sleeping war

• The winter war

What was the name of the French defenses south of the Ardennes forest that held a string of bunkers and fortresses that lined part of the French-German border?

• The neutral zone

• The Rhineland

• The Maginot Line

• The Seine Defense

• The Fortified Forest

In April 1940, Hitler sent his army into what two countries to improve Germany's access to the Atlantic Ocean?

• France and Switzerland

• Belgium and France

• Denmark and Norway

• Poland and Czechoslovakia

• East Prussia and Lithuania