WWII TEST REVIEW
 The Nye Committee report created the impression that
America’s entry into World War I was influenced by:
 American arms manufacturers.
 Stalin agreed to a nonaggression treaty with Germany
because he believed
 That it would turn Germany against Britain and France and
keep the USSR safe
 That the secret portion of the treaty would give the USSR part
of Poland
 What did the Nuremberg Laws do?
 Took German citizenship away from Jewish Germans.
 Prior to WWII, to get resources, the Japanese military invaded
 Manchuria
 The Neutrality Act of 1935 made it illegal for…
 Americans to sell arms to any country at war
 In the Munich Conference, Britain and France…
 gave in to Hitler’s demands for the Sudetenland
 This policy was known as appeasement
 The Nazi-Soviet nonaggression treaty contained a secret deal
to…
 divide Poland between them
 What happened in the Battle of Britain?
 the Royal Air Force saved Britain from invasion
 Widely seen as the start of the Holocaust, a night of antiJewish violence became known as…
 Kristallnacht
 Two causes of the rise of dictatorships after World War I
were…
 the Treaty of Versailles and economic depression.
 Roosevelt sent destroyers to Britain in exchange for…
 U.S. bases on British-held territory
 The Lend-Lease Act was Roosevelt’s way of getting arms to
Britain without Britain having to…
 pay cash
 Adolf Hitler blamed Germany’s defeat in World War I on the
 Jews (and Bolsheviks)
 One of the new political parties to rise during the political and
economic chaos in Germany after World War I was the
National Socialist German Workers’ Party, also known as the
_____________ party.
 Nazi
 Japan’s goal in attacking Midway was to…
 destroy the American fleet
 Iwo Jima was an important objective for the American military
because…
 U.S. planes could bomb Japan from there
 Where did the Bataan Death March occur?
 the Philippines
 In the case Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court
ruled that relocation of Japanese Americans was
 Constitutional or unconstitutional? Why?
 constitutional because it was based on military urgency
 At the Tehran Conference, Roosevelt and Stalin agreed to…
 divide Germany after the war
 How did the successes of the Tuskegee Airmen and other
African American units influence U.S. military policy?
 President Truman fully integrated the military in 1948
following the war.
 What was a major problem in the Weimar Republic?
 Hyperinflation
 Hitler essentially received unlimited power when the Nazi
party passed what act?
 Enabling Act
 The ideas of the Nazi party were particularly desirable to what
two groups?
 WWI Veterans and the youth