US History
Chapter 17 Study Guide
1. What caused France and Great Britain to declare war on Germany?
2. What did the US and Great Britain promise not to do in the Atlantic Charter?
3. What date will “live in infamy”.
4. What was the US’s policy toward involvement in European affairs in the 20’s and 30’s?
5. What was the name of France’s underground movement against the Germans?
6. What agreement did China violate in 1931?
7. What was the Maginot Line?
8. What happened on December 7, 1941?
9. What did the Soviet’s (Russians) call their army?
10. How many of his own people did Stalin send to their death?
11. What African nation did Italy invade in 1935?
12. Besides the Jews, who did Hitler blame for Germany’s loss in WW1?
13. What is fascism?
14. Using a color in your answer, what was another name for Nazi storm troopers?
15. What British politician was not in favor of appeasing Hitler?
16. What American led an effort in naval disarmament?
17. Nazi was an abbreviation for what?
18. What important book did Hitler write while in prison?
19. What leader did Stalin replace in the Soviet Union?\
20. What country were the blackshirts the fascist soldiers for?
21. What country was Franco the fascist leader for?
22. What does it mean to nationalize in a country?
23. Who did Germany invade when it violated the nonaggression pact?
24. What did the Nuremburg Laws do to the Jews?
25. To what country did many of the leading Jewish intellectuals flee to?
26. What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact attempt to do?
27. What was the focus of the Four-Power Treaty?
28. Who was Italy’s fascist leader?
29. Whose government was called the Third Reich?
30. What did Orson Welles do that scared many Americans?
31. What were the names of the two sides in the Spanish Civil War?
32. What Chinese city was occupied by the Japanese in November of 1937?
33. What British Prime Minister wanted to appease Hitler?
34. What is anti-Semitism?
35. What did the Munich Conference give Hitler?
36. Who wrote The Sun Also Rises?
37. What was the Popular Front?
38. What does the German term blitzkrieg mean?
39. What were German payments to the Allies after WW1 called?
40. What was the Lend-Lease Act?
41. What areas did Japanese troops occupy in July of 1941?