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What best describes the actions of military dictatorships in the late 1930s?
a) They were trying to spread democracy around the world
b) They began openly committing acts of aggression
c) Dictatorships began to have more control of the people
d) These military dictatorships wanted to avoid war at all costs

Benito Mussolini was able to appeal to the emotions of Italians. What best describes why Italians were bitter after WWI?
a) Italy was upset about losing World War I.
b) Italians believed that Germany was not punished harshly enough.
c) Mussolini and other Italians believed that Italy did not receive enough land after World War I.
d) They felt the League of Nations was going to help Germany rebuild.

Germans became angry at the Treaty of Versailles for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
a) Forced to accept reparations from the war through the War Guilt Clause.
b) Forced Germany to pay huge reparations to Britain, France and Russia.
c) Jews were responsible for Germany losing the war.
d) Germans felt it stripped them of territory

Which of the following was not true of Italy during the development of WWII?
a) The League of Nations issued sanctions which controlled Italy.
b) Italy attacked Ethiopia.
c) A totalitarian government was established.
d) Mussolini established a Fascist Party.

Which of the following best describes what Germany, Italy, and Japan established using military aggression prior to WWII?
a) Empires
b) League of Nations
c) European Union
d) Democratic Union

In 1935 the United States Congress passed the ______ to prevent the US from taking sides in the WWII conflict.
a) Neutrality Acts
b) Lend Lease Act
c) Good Neighbor Policy
d) Atlantic Charter

Why did the US decide to stay isolated from foreign affairs?
a) Citizens felt they were dragged into WWI
b) Citizens felt they should concentrate on domestic (US) problems
c) Congress passed neutrality acts preventing the US from taking sides
d) All are true

All of the following were failures of the League of Nations, EXCEPT
a) They protested Mussolini's attack on Ethiopia, but did nothing to stop the Italians.
b) They did not prevent Hitler from militarizing his country and then occupying the Rhineland
c) They could only voice disapproval when Japan invaded Manchuria.
d) They passed Neutrality Acts to keep countries out of war.

Britain and France responded with a policy of appeasement to prevent future world wars. What is appeasement?
a) Warlike acts against other nations.
b) An area of land where no German troops were allowed.
c) To give in to the demands of an unhappy nation to avoid war.
d) It was the unification of Germany and Austria.

When Hitler demanded the Sudetenland, European leaders met and agreed to the Munich Pact. Which statement best describes the Munich Pact?
a) It was an agreement between leaders to declare war on Germany.
b) Hitler promised to give the Rhineland back, in exchange for the Sudetenland.
c) It was an agreement to give Hitler the Sudetenland, if he agreed to stop taking land.
d) In the Munich Pact, Mussolini agreed to turn against Hitler and side with the Allies.

On Sept 1, 1939, Hitler stunned the world by invading Poland. What military strategy did the Germans use for the first time?
a) Trench Warfare
b) Blitzkrieg
c) Appeasement
d) Hand-to- hand combat

As Japan committed acts of aggression in China, the League of Nations condemned them. What was Japan's response to this?
a) They left the League
b) Their military gave up power and turned it over to the people
c) They apologized to the world
d) Japan responded by destroying the League of Nations

Where did Germany suffer their first defeat of the war?
a) The Battle of Britain
b) The Battle of Paris
c) At Normandy
d) Warsaw, Poland

Why did Congress pass the Lend- Lease Act and amend the Neutrality Acts in 1941?
a) To permit landlords to lend or lease housing for American troops overseas.
b) To limit the amount of military equipment and supplies sent overseas.
c) To allow the United States to lend military equipment and supplies to any nation the president said was vital to the defense
d) To allow a means for the United States military to build military bases on foreign soil.

The United States strategy of attacking and invading one Japanese held island at a time was called____?
a) Atoll invasions
b) Island warfare
c) Pacific Strategy
d) Island hopping (leap frogging)

How did Japan respond to President Roosevelt's decision to stop the sale of oil to Japan?
a) They tried to re-join the League of Nations.
b) They launched a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor
c) The Japanese sent troops to help Germany defeat Britain
d) They did not respond

General Dwight Eisenhower led the invasion known as D-Day. What best describes this invasion?
a) The Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, and eventually spread out all over Europe.
b) he Allies landed in the North Africa and began moving towards Italy.
c) The invasion took place in Japan, and was a response to Pearl Harbor.
d) The Allies made the invasion look real, but it really wasn't.

What difficult decision did President Harry Truman have to make regarding the war in Pacific?
a) He had to decide whether or not to surrender to the Japanese.
b) Truman needed to decided whether or not to invade China.
c) He had to decide whether or not to remain allies with Britain and France.
d) The decision Truman faced was whether or not to use the atomic bomb on Japan.

Which WWII battle marked the turning point for fighting in the Pacific against the Japanese?
a) Battle of the Bulge
b) Battle of Stalingrad
c) Battle of Midway
d) Battle of Iwo Jima

What ended the war in the Pacific?
a) The invasion of China by the US
b) The surrender of the Nazis
c) The dropping of the atomic bomb on two Japanese cities
d) D-Day

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