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Causes Of WW2

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The name of the agreement signed at the end of WW1 was
a)
The Treaty of Versailles
b)
The Peace Clause
c)
The League of Nations
d)
The Treaty of Berlin
2.

What was one of the first things Hitler did that violated the Versailles Treaty and was necessary for his later plans?

a)

Take the Sudetenland

(Czechoslovakia)

b)

Rebuild the German army

c)

Unite with Austria

d)

Invade Poland

3.

Why did Britain and France finally declare war on Germany?

a)

Because Hitler invaded Poland

b)

Because Hitler stopped paying reparations

c)

Because Hitler was persecuting Jewish people

d)

Because Hitler invaded France

4.

What are TWO ways that people justified appeasement?

a)

Securing Britain against social upheaval at home

b)

Strengthening Germany in order to protect Western Europe from communism

c)

Germany had some legitimate complaints after the Treaty of Versailles

d)

Maintaining the balance of power in Europe

e)

Wanted to avoid another devastating war like the "Great War" twenty years earlier

5.

The Act that allowed the U.S. to give War supplies to Britain in early WW2?

a)

United Nations

b)

Lend-Lease Act

c)

Manhattan Act

6.

This World War II propaganda poster was probably used by the American government to encourage what for the war effort?

a)

The manufacturing of materials needed for the war effort

b)

Rationing

c)

Enlisting in the military

7.

Why were Japanese-Americans living on the west coast sent to internment camps during World War II?

a)

There was a mistaken belief that they were aiding our enemy, Japan.

b)

Many could not speak English and were being harassed by other Americans.

c)

Evidence was seized from Japanese-American spies.

8.

Q. In order to avoid conflict and another war, European leaders gave in to Hitler's demands because of the policy of ...

a)

containment

b)

Appeasement

c)

Advancement

d)

Internment

9.

Q. A swift, sudden military offensive, usually by combined air and mobile land forces which the Germans used to run through France and Poland in the early parts of WW2 known as the "Lighting War" is called __________..

a)

Kristanllnacht

b)

Final Solution

c)

Genocide

d)

Blitzkrieg

10.

What country bomb the American fleet at Peral Harbor

a)

China

b)

Japan

c)

Italy

d)

Russia

11.

European leaders wanted to avoid another war, resulting in the policy of ...

a)

League of Nations

b)

Appeasement

c)

Total War

d)

Revolution

12.

At the beginning of World War II, the US was adopting a policy of what?

a)
invasion
b)

appaulment

c)
isolationism
d)
aggression
13.

The United States declared war on Japan. As a result a result, which country declared war on the United States?

a)

Germany

b)

Australia

c)

Colombia

14.

a series of acts passed by Congress aimed at keeping the US from entering WWII

a)

Neutrality Acts

b)

Cash and carry

c)

Lend-Lease act

d)

Selective Service and Training Act

15.

permitted the trade of non-military goods to nations involved in the war if they paid cash and transported them themselves

a)

Neutrality Acts

b)

Lend-Lease act

c)

Cash and carry

d)

Selective Service and Training Act

16.

allowed the president to send aid to any country he believed necessary to American security

a)

Neutrality Acts

b)

Lend-Lease act

c)

Cash and carry

d)

Selective Service and Training Act

17.

a set of principles agreed upon by the US and Britain that would become the basis for the United Nations

a)

Atlantic Charter

b)

Anti-Semitism

c)

Lend-Lease act

d)

Neutrality Acts