WWII - A quick check for understanding! - Tracy Nondorf | Library

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This is a form of government that is "super nationalistic" - and which often promotes both militarism and expansionism. This kind of government was on the rise in Europe in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Fascism

Socialism

Naziism

Communism

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Match the LEADER to his COUNTRY

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
B. Mussolini		Germany
F. Roosevelt		Italy
A. Hitler		USSR / Russia
J. Stalin		United Kingdom / England
N. Chamberlain		United States of America

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This is a policy that nations used with Hitler as he began to violate the Treaty of Versailles and to expand German territory (as he tried to get back land lost in World War I). Countries like England and France gave into Hitler, hoping that he would stop seeking MORE! This policy is called:

Nationalism

Revolution

Diplomacy

Appeasement

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Hitler was an Authoritarian or Totalitarian leader - another word we might use for this kind of leader is?

Democratic

Socialist

Monarch

Dictator

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In 1938 Hitler was given the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia - at this meeting which included Hitler, as well as representatives from Italy, England and France?

The Fascist Forum

The League of Nations Conference

The Munich Conference

The Sudeten Conference

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England and France allowed Hitler to take Austria and part of Czechoslovakia (as well as moving troops into the Rhineland and remilitarizing), be DECLARED war on Germany when they invaded __ on September 1, 1939.

France

The USSR / Russia

Denmark

Poland

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What was the BLITZ?

The German bombing and attack of France.

The German bombing of England - in preparation for a German invasion.

It was the name of Hitler's German shepherd

The "lightening warfare" used by Germany.

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Which of the following IS NOT TRUE of the United States at the start of World War II.

Congress would pass Neutrality Acts in the 1930s to keep Americans from sailing on European ships, or from selling war goods to nations at war.

Once France fell to the Germans, the USA began shipping food and armaments to England.

Many - including members of Congress had grown more isolationist during the 1930s and did not want to enter the war.

Franklin Roosevelt was sympathetic to the British, and found ways to "work around," congressional actions.

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Charles Lindbergh can be classified as an isolationist?

TRUE

FALSE

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The Lend Lease Act of 1941 allowed the President of the USA to “sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend or otherwise dispose of any such government defense article” whenever he thought it was “necessary in the interest of the defense of the United States.” So he could effectively give the British any "war goods," he thought necessary.

TRUE

FALSE