WWII Review

What is Appeasement?

• Going to war over an incident
• Extending suffrage rights to foreign citizens
• Giving in to the demands of a potential enemy in order to avoid conflict
• standing up to injustice and not allowing dictators to take over other teritories

Which three countries were known as the Axis powers of WWII?

• Japan, England, Italy
• Japan, Italy, Germany
• Russia, Japan, Germany
• Europe, Japan, Czechoslovakia

Which country did Hitler invade that triggered the all-out conflict in Europe?

• Spain
• Greece
• Poland
• Great Britain

Name the three major countries that formed the alliance known as the Allied Powers.

• Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States
• Great Britain, Japan, United States
• Germany, France, United States
• Japan, Germany, Italy

The dictator of Italy during WWII who was killed by his own people was

• Mussolini
• Stalin
• Hitler
• Churchill

Japan seized Manchuria and North China because:  

• Chinese soldiers blew up a Japanese railway.
• Japan needed raw materials for its industries.
• Manchuria contained strategic military bases.
• Chiang Kai-shek would not surrender to Japanese forces.

Which country attacked Poland, sparking WWII?

• France
• England
• Germany
• Soviet Union

By the end of 1940, Hitler

• had conquered almost all of Europe except Spain, Great Britain, and the USSR
• had ordered his armies to attack Switzerland because he needed the Swiss banks and their financial resources
• had already killed the majority of the Jews and gypsies in Europe.

In the battle for what city was Hitler’s entire German Sixth Army destroyed?

• Stalingrad
• Dunkirk
• Paris
• Dresden

In the Holocaust, approximately how many Jews were murdered by the Nazis?  

• 6 million
• 600,000
• 18 million
• 12  million