Vocabulary
Define each of the following as you read.
• Munich Pact
• Nazism
• Spanish Civil War
• Neutrality acts
• Blitzkrieg
• Lend-Lease Act
Section 1 Reading Questions
Use clues from the photograph and the reading to answer the following questions and explain
what you think appeasement means.
1. Who are these men?
2. What are their attitudes toward each other in the photograph?
3. What does the reading reveal about how these two men might have really felt about each other
4. What does this photograph tell you about what appeasement means?
Section 2 Reading Notes
Soviet Union
Italy
Germany
Japan
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hideki Tojo
Totalitarianism
Fascism
Nazism
Militarism
Tactics
Tactics
Tactics
Tactics
Describe one or more decisions by the US or other countries that might have prevented one (or more)
of these leaders rise to power. Why did the US and others not act at the time?
Sections 3-5 Reading Notes
Action
1935-1936 Germany remilitarizes
1935 Italy invades Ethiopia
1936-1939 Germany and Italy aid nationalists in
Spanish Civil War
1937 Japanese troops massacre civilians in
Nanjing
1938 German Anschluss (union) with Austria
Reaction from Britain, France, or US
Action
1939 Germany invades Czechoslovakia
1939 Germany attacks Poland
1940 Germany invades Low Countries and
France
1940 Germany attacks Britain (Battle of Britain)
1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Reaction from Britain, France, or US