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WorksheetsChapter 17 WW II
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A government that controls every part of life and uses terror to force compliance:
Democracy
Theocracy
Totalitarianism
Utilitarianism
This system stresses the importance of a nation and worship of a strong ruler
Fascism
Communism
Theocracy
Democracy
The leader who rose to power in Germany in 1933:
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hidjecki Tojo
Josef Stalin
The leader who rose to power in Italy in 1922:
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hidjecki Tojo
Josef Stalin
The leader who became the military dictator of Japan in 1941:
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hidjecki Tojo
Josef Stalin
The leaderwho took over the Soviet Union and murdered many of his perceived enemies:
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hidjecki Tojo
Josef Stalin
Meaning "My Struggle", this book was the blueprint for Adolf Hitler's takeover of power:
Mein Kampf
Shto Vi Delate
While we Slept
All Quiet on the Western Front
This building was burned down by the Nazi Party which allowed Hitler to seize total power in Germany:
Armory
Brandenburg Gate
Reichstag
Gauleiter
Germany, Italy and Japan formed this military alliance:
Central Powers
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
Triple Entente
Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union and later the U.S. formed this military alliance:
Central Powers
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
Triple Entente
The United States philosophy of avoiding miltary conflict and staying out of European Affairs:
Isolationism
Appeasement
Fascism
Atlantic Charter
European philosophy of giving into the aggressor to avoid military conflicts:
Isolationism
Appeasement
Fascism
Atlantic Charter
A Civil War in this European nation was used by Germany to test it's military strategy of blitzkrieg
France
Russia
Spain
Yugoslavia
The prime minister of Great Britain who practiced appeasement and tried to negotiate with Hilter:
Neville Chamberlin
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Clement Atlee
The prime minister of Great Britain who inspired his people to resist against relentless nightly air raids by Germany:
Neville Chamberlin
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Clement Atlee
In this pact, Great Britain agreed to give Germany the Sudetenland in exchange for promises of no more aggression against it's neighbors:
Berlin
Munich
Warsaw
Paris
Germany agreed to a non-aggression pact with this country in August, 1939:
Soviet Union
Poland
France
Great Britain
Germany invaded this country in September, 1939 beginning World War II:
Soviet Union
Poland
France
Great Britain
Germany invaded and conquered this country in six weeks time in May of I940:
Soviet Union
Poland
France
Great Britain
This country resisted nightly bombing raids by Germany from 1940-41.:
Soviet Union
Poland
France
Great Britain
Meaning lightening war, this German strategy emphasized rapid movement and using it's weapons to target the civilian population:
Blitzkrieg
Einsatzgruppen
Kriegsmarine
Unterseebooten
France construted this giant military fortification to protect itself from German invasion:
West Wall
Maginot LIne
Hindenberg Line
Omega File
The government that took over France after the Nazi takeover and collaborated with the Nazi regime:
Vichy
Free French
America First Committee
Ultra
British forces were rescued from France by civilians using their own boats, preventing Britain from falling to Germany at this French port city
Dunkirk
Le Havre
Normandy
Pas de Calais
The leader of Vichy France:
Henri Petain
Charles DeGaulle
George Clemenceau
Artois Daldier
The leader of the Free French who resisted Nazi occupation:
Henri Petain
Charles DeGaulle
George Clemenceau
Artois Daldier
City in China where Japanese troops murdered survivors and committed attrocities against civilians:
Beijing
Nanjing
Shanghai
Hong Kong
When conquering powers controlled and installed a ruler who acted under their orders:
Buffer state
Puppet state
Lend Lease
Atlantic Charter
Road seized by Japan which led to a U.S. trade embargo against the Japanese
Highway One
Burma Road
Silk Road
Golden Triangle
Japan's program to enslave it's neighbors:
Burma Road
Atlantic Charter
Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Good Neighbor Policy
American hero who sympathized with Hitler and urged American neutrality in World War II
Huey Long
Charles Lindberg
Henry Ford
Babe Ruth
This act banned the U.S. from providing weapons, aid or loans to warring European nations:
Neutrality Acts
Tydings Acts
America First Committee
Atlantic Charter
Led by Charles Lindbergh, they tried to forbid U.S. aid to Great Britain
America First Committee
Atlantic Charter
Neutrality Acts
Lend Lease
This act allowed the U.S. to provide aid to any nation whose defense was vital to American security
America First Committe
Lend Lease
Neutrality Acts
Cash and Carry Laws
This act allowed the U.S. to provide non-military aid to any European nation as long as they paid for it and transported it:
America First Committe
Lend Lease
Neutrality Acts
Cash and Carry Laws
This site was attacked on December 7, 1941:
Pearl Harbor
San Diego
New York
Manilla
Stalin sent his enemies here:
Poland
Labor camps
Ukraine
State run factories
Stalin's program to eliminate his enemies was done through a series of:
Purges
Lightening attacks
Terror
Radio broadcasts
He called himself the Fuhrer or leader:
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hidjeki Tojo
Josef Stalin
He called himself the Il Duce or leader:
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hidjeki Tojo
Josef Stalin
The leader of the Nazi Party:
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hidjeki Tojo
Josef Stalin
The leader of the Fascist Party:
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hidjeki Tojo
Josef Stalin
The leader of the Communist Party:
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Hidjeki Tojo
Josef Stalin
Region of China taken over by Japan:
Manchuria
Korea
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Country that Great Britain allowed Germany to take land from in 1936:
Czechoslovakia
Austria
France
Belgium
Nation invaded and conquered by Germany in 1939 which started World War II:
Austria
Spain
Poland
Russia
This nation fell in 1940 and Hitler forced them to surrender on their Independence Day.
Poland
France
Great Britain
Soviet Union
On December 8,1941. Germany declared war on this nation:
United States
Soviet Union
Japan
Great Britain
The Republican nominee for President in 1940:
Charles Lindbergh
Wendell Wilkie
Thomas Dewey
Herbert Hoover
City targeted by the Germans for a war of annihilation during the battle of Britain:
Covington
Edinborough
London
Birmingham
Italy launched a war against this nation in 1935:
Austria
Ethiopia
Spain
France
This group tried to block aid and convince Americans to abandon it's alliance with Great Britain:
Lend Lease
New Deal
America First Committee
Atlantic Charter
Pablo Picasso painted his masterpiece depicted the German blitzkrieg on this Spanish city:
Madrid
Barcelona
Guernica
Cordova
Stalin took over this country and starved over half of it's population:
Austria
Ukraine
Finland
Germany
This country fought bravely against the Soviets and it led Hitler to believe he could conquer the Soviet Union:
Austria
Ukraine
Finland
Germany
This race was considered superior in Germany:
Aryan
Jewish
Sudetan
Amish
This U.S. athlete angered Hitler by winning 4 Gold Medals during the 1936 Summer Olympics:
Jesse Owens
Max Baer
Max Schmelling
Sam Stoller
In 1936, German troops re-entered this province for the first time since 1919 in violation of the Versailles Treaty:
Rhineland
Palatinate
Hanover
Mecklenberg
British and French policy of giving into German aggression in order to avoid conflict:
Purges
Appeasement
Interventionism
Internationalism
The German panzer was another name for this weapon:
Submarine
Tank
Airplane
Helicopter
Members of the Luftwaffe used this weapon:
Tank
Airplane
Submarine
Amphibious assault
The name of the German code broken by Great Britain:
Ultra
Magic
Radar
Samson
This new invention allowed the British to detect airplane movements over their country:
Magic
Radar
Barbwire
Submarines
The name of the dive bomber used by Germany to terrorize civilians:
Stukka
Sturmer
Panzerfaust
Kreigensfelt
Anti-semitism refers to prejudice against:
Women
Native-Americans
Jews
Catholics
Propaganda tool used by Hitler to attract large audiences:
Radio
Kite
Telegraph
Television
He led an air raid on Tokyo in retaliation for Pearl Harbor:
James Doolittle
Chester Nimitz
Douglas McArthur
George Marshall
This term meant living space in German:
Blitzkrieg
Lebensrum
Fuhrer
Luftwaffe
Francisco France was the Fascist leader of this nation:
Germany
Spain
Italy
Turkey
The phony war referred to lack of action prior to the German invasion of this country:
France
Great Britain
Poland
United States
This term means close cooperation. Countries in Europe did this in regards to the Holocaust against the Jews:
Puppet state
Manchuko
Lebensrum
Collaboration
The Blitz, the RAF and Ultra refer to the German campaign against:
France
Poland
Soviet Union
Great Britain
The rising sun is the symbol of this country. It is on their flag:
Germany
Italy
Russia
Japan
The swaztika was the symbol of this country. It was on their flag:
Germany
Italy
Russia
Japan
This country's flag was red with a gold hammer and sickle emblem:
Germany
Italy
Soviet Union
Japan
Japan's vision of it's master race began during the era of:
Progressives
Imperialism
Democracy
Socialism
World War II in Asia began when Japan invaded this nation:
United Stetes
China
Russia
Australia
FDR's Day of Infamy speech asked Congress to declare war against:
Japan
Germany
Italy
Soviet Union
Pearl Harbor is located in:
Mexico
California
Hawaii
Australia
The Blitz against Great Britain changed when this city became the target of German bombers:
Dublin
Paris
London
New York
This road was cut by Japan which led to a U.S. trade embargo:
Burma
Tokyo
Silk
Berlin
This means to cease or cut off:
Embargo
Tariff
Collaboration
Amendment
World War II started in this year:
1939
1941
1943
1945
The United States involvement in World War II started in this year:
1939
1941
1943
1945
The method of compliance used by dicators:
Collaboration
Cooperation
Compromise
Terror
Tactic of mixing chemicals to create hot temperatures to create massive fires:
Massive bombardment
Firebombing
Radar
Guided missiles
