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WorksheetsWW2 - Causes Review
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 18mins
Joseph Stalin
What was one of the first things Hitler did that violated the Versailles Treaty and was necessary for his later plans?
Take the Sudetenland
(Czechoslovakia)
Rebuild the German army
Unite with Austria
Invade Poland
Which country "united" w/ Germany in 1938? (Whether they really wanted to or not...)
Austria
Poland
France
Hungary
What did Britain and France agree to "give" to Germany in the Munich Agreement in 1938 (in the hope that this would be his last territorial expansion)?
Alsace-Lorraine (part of France)
Austria
Sudetenland
(part of Czechoslovakia)
Poland
What did Hitler do the year after the "Munich Agreement" (where he had promised just the opposite)?
Hitler took over the rest of Czechoslovakia and also invaded Poland
Hitler invaded France
Hitler made a deal with Stalin
Hitler made world peace
Why did Britain and France finally declare war on Germany?
Because Hitler invaded Poland
Because Hitler stopped paying reparations
Because Hitler was persecuting Jewish people
Because Hitler invaded France
What are TWO ways that people justified appeasement?
Securing Britain against social upheaval at home
Strengthening Germany in order to protect Western Europe from communism
Germany had some legitimate complaints after the Treaty of Versailles
Maintaining the balance of power in Europe
Wanted to avoid another devastating war like the "Great War" twenty years earlier
During the mid-to-late 1930s, most people in Britain supported the policy of appeasement because they wanted to avoid war.
True
False
Kindness
Isolationism
Which 3 countries were the primary members o ft he Axis Powers?
American, England, and Russia
Sweden, Germany, and Denmark
Italy, Russia, and Austria
Italy, Germany, and Japan
Japan used convenient (or invented) incidents to justify invading parts of this country...
China
Korea
the U.S.
Vietnam
This group eventually dominated Japanese policy and government by the late-1930 and they were very aggressive in their foreign policy.
The military
The Emperor
The civilian gov't
Foreign Powers
Which type of foreign policy best characterizes Japan in the 1930s?
Territorial Expansion
International Cooperation
Appeasement
Isolationism
TRUE OR FALSE: The League of Nations acted swiftly and strongly to aid their member nations, including China (after Japan's attack) and Ethiopia (after Italy's invasion).
True
False
(Select more than one answer!)
Which of the following were problems that Germany had with the Treaty of Versailles?
Smaller military
Lost territory
Joined League of Nations
Former leader was executed after the war
Admit the war was their fault
