Unit 8 - World War 2

What was the audience and purpose of this propaganda poster by the U.S. government?

• men to get buff

• women to work in factories (industrial)

• women to join military

• men to vote for women's suffrage

What was the audience and purpose of this propaganda poster?

• American people to give financial support to the war

• Germans to scare them

• American people to join military

• women to work in factories

What type of government did Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union all have in common?

• Fascist

• Communist

• Democracy

• Totalitarian

The data in the chart illustrates Germany's high rate of _______________ after World War 1.

• GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

• fascism

• inflation

• Appeasement

This propaganda poster is trying to get the American public to do what?

• conserve natural resources

• buy war bonds

• work in factories

• join the armed forces (military)

What event finally caused England and France to declare war on Germany?

• Non-Aggression pact with USSR

• Seizure of Sudetenland

• Seizure of France

• Invasion of Poland

Select the reasons that using the atomic bomb was an appropriate military action:

• shortened war and saved lives

• could have demonstrated bomb on deserted island

• revenge for Pearl Harbor

• bombed killed mostly civilians

What does the German word blitzkrieg refer to?

• type of pretzel

• surrender

• trenches

• surprise attack to confuse enemy

What is the name of the anti-Semitic laws and mass execution of millions of Jews by the Nazi government?

• Holocaust

• Blitzkrieg

• Manhattan Project

• Appeasement Policy

What led the U.S. away from isolationism and to enter World War 2?

• invasion of Poland

• attack on Pearl Harbor

• Holocaust

• German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact