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WW2 Beginning

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What country did Japan invaded in 1931?

a)

China

b)

Soviet Union

c)

North Korea

d)

The United States

2.

How did Britain/France react to the invasions of the countries by Japan, Germany, and Italy?

a)

Appeasement

b)

Start WW2 Immediately

c)

Create another treaty

d)

Remove them from the League of Nations

3.

What does the term appeasement mean?

a)

refusal to get involved in any foreign affairs

b)

eating peas for dinner

c)

appealing to a certain status group

d)

•giving in to demands of an aggressor to keep the peace

4.

Why did Britain and France practice appeasement? (Click all that apply)

a)

•Hitler seen less evil than Stalin & communism

b)

•France too weak to fight w/o Britain

c)

•Pacifism - opposition to all war - & disgust w/ WWI destruction

d)

fear of losing sleep

5.

What was Hitler's first violation of the Treaty of Versailles, regarding taking over other territory?

a)

Crossing the River into the Rhineland

b)

Invading Poland

c)

Crossing the Delaware

d)

Attacking London

6.

Which countries made up the Axis Powers? (click all that apply)

a)

Germany

b)

Japan

c)

Soviet Union

d)

Italy

e)

France

7.

The meeting of Germany, France, Britain, and Italy's leaders in Germany, 1938, was called what?

a)

Munich Conference

b)

London Conference

c)

they never met

d)

Berlin Conference

8.

When Hitler tried to invade Poland who did the Poles turn to for help?

a)

Soviet Union

b)

Britain and France

c)

The United States

d)

Norway

9.

Britain and France asked Stalin to join an alliance with them. Stalin did not immediately join, but did this instead.

a)

Signed an agreement with the United States instead

b)

Signed a peace agreement with Hiter

c)

refused to fight in WW2

d)

Refused to work with anyone in WW2

10.

The term "blitz" in regards to military tactics, means what?

a)

end of war

b)

white flag

c)

bombing

d)

sailing

11.

Operation Sea Lion was a failure for Germany, why? (click all that apply)

a)

Britain never gave up

b)

Boosted moral in Britain to try and defeat Hiter

c)

Ended WW2

d)

prevented Germany from entering Russia

12.

Operation Barbarossa was Hitler's plan to invade which country?

a)

Russia

b)

France

c)

Prussia

d)

England

13.

What does Isolationism mean?

a)

•the belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided (most Americans supported this idea)

b)

separating Church from the Government

c)

not getting involved in conflicts with other friends

14.

What stated that the US would not sell war materials or give loans to nations at war?

a)

Neutrality Acts

b)

Lend-Lease Act

c)

Atlantic Charter

15.

What information did the United States receive from cracking Japanese code?

a)

The United States would not be attacked by the Japanese

b)

Japan was going to give up fighting in WW2

c)

There would be an attack in the Pacific somewhere

16.

The Japanese attack here_____________________ led the United States into joining WW2.

a)

New York Bay

b)

Washington D.C

c)

Pearl Harbor