Formative- Beginnings of World War II

Which of the following actions was a direct violation of the treaty that ended World War I?

• the Holocaust
• the invasion of Ethiopia
• the invasion on Manchuria
• the remilitarization of Germany

List two causes of WWII.

Which Axis leader took aggressive actions in the Rhineland, Sudentenland, and Chechoslovakia?

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In this photograph, taken in the Sudetenland in October 1938, who are these women greeting?

• American troops who have liberated a Nazi death camp in Czechoslovakia.
• Soviet troops who have driven Nazi forces out of Czechoslovakia.
• German troops who are annexing part of Czechoslovakia.
• Czech resistance fighters who are fighting Soviet invaders.

Why did the invasion of Poland launch World War II?

• It violated Hitler's non-aggression pact with Stalin.
• It led Britain and France to abandon the policy of appeasement.
• It led the United States to abandon the policy of neutrality.
• It was the first time German forces used the blitzkrieg strategy.

Describe the German blitzkrieg military strategy.

Discuss why the Western democracies adopted a policy of appeasement in response to Hitler’s aggression.