Standards 7-5.5 to 7-5.6
Test Date: January 23, 2009
1. What did Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini,
and Joseph Stalin have in common?
Answer: They were all totalitarian leaders.
2. What is fascism?
• Answer: A system of government that puts
the nation above the individual, glorifies
the military, and supports a strong dictator.
3. What group took control of
Japan in the 1930s?
Answer: military leaders
4. How did Adolf Hitler respond to
the Treaty of Versailles?
Answer: He violated all the terms of the
Treaty of Versailles.
5. Which prime minister led the British
against the Nazis in World War II?
• Answer: Winston Churchill
6. Explain blitzkrieg.
• Answer: Hitler used this war tactic first
against Poland.
7. Hitler used blitzkrieg to conquer
what nation?
• Answer: Poland
8. What event led to the United
States entering World War II?
•
Answer: The attack on Pearl Harbor.
9. What did the U.S. practice
before entering World War II?
• Answer: isolationism
10. What did Great Britain and France use to give in to
Hitler’s demands for the control of the Sudetenland?
• Answer: appeasement
11. Which nation gave great support to the
United States in the Pacific Theater of War?
•
Answer: The United Kingdom (Great
Britain)
12. What was D-Day?
• Answer: United States stormed the
beaches of France to help free them from
German control.
13. What were the Nuremberg
Laws?
•
Answer: Jews were robbed of the
citizenships in European nations that had
been taken over by the Nazis.
14. Where were the atomic bombs dropped
in Japan by the United States? (2 cities)
• Answer: Nagasaki and Hiroshima
15. Where were the Nuremberg
Trials located?
• Answer: Nuremberg, Germany
16. What was Hitler’s “final
solution”?
•
Answer: This was known as the
complete destruction of the Jews.
17. What period of economic hardship was
one of the causes of World War II?
• Answer: The Great Depression
18. How did President Roosevelt
communicate with Americans during World
War II?
• Answer: Radio speeches called fireside
chats.
19. What happened to JapaneseAmericans during World War II?
•
Answer: They were placed in internment
camps.
20. What nations made up the Axis
Powers during World War II?
•
Answer: Italy, Germany, and Japan.
21. Which battle was the turning point for
fighting in the Pacific during World War II?
• Answer: Battle of Iwo Jima
22. How did the United States end
up at war with Germany?
•
Answer: After the United States declared
war on Japan, Germany declared war on
the US.