WorksheetsWorld Wars - Rising Threat
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
The stock market crash on Oct. 28th 1929 starts what period in history?
Great Depression
WWII
WWI
Cold War
What country suffered the most during the Great Depression because they owed billions of dollars in reparations after WWI?
Germany
USA
Great Britain
Russia
What event in history caused Germany people to follow Hitler?
WWI
Great Depression
Boom of 1920s
Prohibition
What political party does Hitler build into a large movement?
Nazi Party
Communist Party
Fascist Party
Democratic Party
What was FDR diagnosed with?
Small Pox
Polio
Depression
Tuberculosis
What was the Night of the Long Knives?
Election night in Germany
Elimination of Hitler's politcial opponents
The start of WWII
Assassination of Churchill's politcial enemies
How does FDR pay for the New Deal?
Higher taxes
Eliminating National Parks
Reparations from Germany
Cutting Military Defense funds
What does Great Britain do that is similar to the US?
Raise taxes
Pay war reparations to Germany
Build National Parks
Cut military spending
Who was against cutting military spending in USA?
Churchill
FDR
MacArthur
Hitler
Why did Hitler have to rearm in secrecy?
He didn't want the German people to know
It was against the agreement of the Treaty of Versaille
He was creating a spy organization
Hitler and Churchill were secretly allies
Why was Italy bitter after the Treaty of Versailles?
They lost many men
They were blamed for WWI
They had to pay reparations
They didn't gain extra territory
What country does Mussolini conquer in a matter of weeks?
Germany
France
Turkey
Ethiopia
Who was the FIRST person Hitler makes an alliance with?
Stalin
FDR
Churchill
Mussolini
What area was taken from Germany after WWI and ater invaded by 22,000 Germans?
Rhineland
Austria
Holland
Russia
How did Great Britain and France react when Germany invaded the Rhineland (first area Hitler invaded)
Did Nothing
Started WWII
Defended the area
Japan fought on what side during WWI?
Allied Powers
Central Powers
Neutral
In 1937, Japan invaded what country?
USA (Pearl Harbor)
Russia (Siberia)
China (Manchuria)
Austrailia (outback)
Who does Japan sign a pact with?
Axis Powers (Germany and Italy)
Allied Powers (Great Britain and France)
They stayed neutral
Who is the Prime Minister of Britain during the time Hitler begins annexing (gaining) territory? (The beginning)
Churchill
Mussolini
FDR
Chamberlain
Chamberlain agrees to give Hitler land as long as he promises not to take any more. What was this event called?
Night of the long knives
Start of WWII
Munich Pact
Treaty of Versailles
The Munich Pact is an example of...
Appeasement
Aggression
Annexation
Acrobatics
How long did it take Hitler to violate the terms of appeasement (Munich Pact)
6 months
6 years
6 days
6 hours
Churchill was FOR appeasement
True
False
Hitler makes a pact with what country, and agrees to split Poland secretly?
Soviet Union
Italy
France
Great Britain
Stalin is the dictator of what country?
Germany
Italy
Soviet Union
Great Britain
What country did Hitler invade, that led to Great Britain and France to war. (Caused WWII)
Poland
Czechoslavakia
France
Soviet Union
Who became the new Prime Minister of Great Britaini after Chamberlain?
Churchill
FDR
Eisenhower
Mussolini
Hitler invades Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg before invading France How longn dodes it take Hitler to conquer France?
6 days
6 weeks
6 years
6 hours
After conquering France, who does Hitler plan to invade?
Italy
USA
Great Britain
Spaini
Since Great Britain is an island country, Hitler decides to attack
By sea
By land
By air
By foot
Who are the Axis powers?
Japan, France, Germany
Germany, Italy, USA
Great Britain, France, Soviet Union
Germany, Italy, Japan
Who does the Philippines belong to in 1939?
USA
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Spain
What country did Hitler invade in 1941, which broke the pact signed 3 years earlier?
Great Britain
Italy
USA
Soviet Union
What event caused the US to join WWII?
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union
London Blitz
Italy's invasion of China
What is one reason Japan bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?
US had stopped trade of oil to Japan
Japan planned to annex the United States
Germany had asked Japan to attack the USA
Japan wanted revenge for losing WWI
