WorksheetsWorld War II Guided Reading I - The War Begins
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What is totalitarianism?
A system where the government controls nearly every part of citizens’ lives
A system where voters choose laws directly
A system where power is shared by states and a national government
A system with no government at all
Many Europeans accepted strong leaders in the 1920s–1930s mainly because they wanted:
Peace and stability during hard times
More colonies in Africa
Fewer factories and jobs
Stronger kings and queens
Who took control of Italy in 1922?
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Fascism is a political system in which:
The state is seen as more important than individuals
The church controls the government
People vote on every law
Leaders are chosen by lottery
In 1935, Mussolini attacked which country?
Ethiopia
Poland
Japan
Britain
Many Germans were angry about the Treaty of Versailles because it forced Germany to pay:
Reparations
Salaries
Rent
Scholarships
Hitler became chancellor of Germany in:
1933
1919
1928
1941
Hitler blamed Germany’s problems especially on:
Jews and Communists (and other “scapegoats”)
French farmers
British sailors
Italian factory owners
Hitler’s political party was called the:
Nazi Party (National Socialist Party)
League of Nations
Labor Party
Whig Party
By 1928, Joseph Stalin had become dictator of the:
Soviet Union
United States
Germany
France
In the 1930s, Stalin used terror mainly to:
Kill or imprison people he saw as enemies
End all wars in Europe
Create new colonies overseas
Give power to local governments
In early 1900s Japan, power increasingly shifted to:
Military leaders
Student councils
Peace groups
Foreign diplomats
In 1931, Japan invaded which region in northern China?
Manchuria
Siberia
Sudetenland
Rhineland
During 1937–1938, about 360,000 Chinese were killed in the city of:
Nanjing
Paris
Rome
Vienna
In 1936, Germany moved troops into the Rhineland, which violated the:
Treaty of Versailles
Magna Carta
Monroe Doctrine
Bill of Rights
Germany and Italy formed the Axis Powers; later, this country joined:
Japan
Canada
Mexico
Sweden
In 1938, Hitler forced Austria to unite with:
Germany
France
Italy
Poland
The Sudetenland was part of:
Czechoslovakia
Spain
Norway
Greece
Appeasement means:
Avoiding war by giving an aggressive nation what it wants
Refusing all trade with other countries
Building more factories for weapons
Turning colonies into independent nations
In March 1939, Germany seized the rest of:
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Britain
Canada
In August 1939, Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with:
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Franklin Roosevelt
Neville Chamberlain
World War II began in Europe when Germany invaded:
Poland
France
Britain
Ethiopia
Blitzkrieg was a strategy that relied on:
Fast attacks using tanks and airplanes
Long trench lines that barely moved
Submarines only
Cutting off food supplies for years
The French port where many Allied troops escaped was:
Dunkirk
Berlin
Madrid
Moscow
Britain used radar during the Battle of Britain to:
Detect and destroy enemy aircraft
Predict earthquakes
Control ocean tides
Translate foreign languages
