Ch 20 Study Guide

True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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1. Fascists were strongly anticommunist.

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2. To gain the resources Japan needed, the Japanese government ordered the military to invade Manchuria.

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3. When he first took office, Franklin Roosevelt supported isolationism.

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4. Franklin Roosevelt allowed the sale of arms to China when Japan invaded China, claiming that the Neutrality
Act did not apply because the countries had not declared war.

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5. Supporters of appeasement believed that Hitler had a few limited demands and that they could avoid war if
they satisfied these demands.

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6. As German forces closed in on Dunkirk, Hitler ordered them to annihilate the British and French soldiers
there.

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7. Kristallnacht was a night of spontaneous rioting by the German people, enraged over the killing of a German
diplomat by a Jewish refugee.

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8. The America First Committee was an isolationist group.

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9. Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States blocked the sale of airplane fuel and scrap iron to Japan.

____ 10. American commanders at the Pearl Harbor naval base received a war warning, but Hawaii was not mentioned
as a possible target.
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 11. Two causes of the rise of dictatorships after World War I were
a. the peace treaty and economic depression.
b. new political ideas and economic depression.
c. the peace treaty and lack of strong leadership after the war.
d. new political ideas and lack of strong leadership after the war.
____ 12. Adolf Hitler blamed Germanys defeat in World War I on the
a. weak German ruler.
c. Jews.
b. democratic form of government.
d. Slavs.
____ 13. The Nye Committee report created the impression that Americas entry into World War I was influenced by
a. attacks on American merchant ships.
b. militarism in Europe.
c. American arms manufacturers.
d. the American Communist Party.
____ 14. The British and French realized that appeasement had failed when Hitler
a. invaded Czechoslovakia.
b. invaded Austria.
c. invaded Poland.
d. made demands for territory in Poland.
____ 15. The Nuremberg Laws

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a. took citizenship away from Jewish Germans.

b. required all Jewish Germans to move to concentration camps.
c. required all Jewish Germans to leave the country.
d. authorized German police to shoot Jewish Germans.
Many of the Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis
a. immigrated to the U.S.
c. were given refuge in Mexico.
b. disembarked in Cuba.
d. died in the Nazis final solution.
The Nazis final solution referred to their plans to
a. defeat France.
c. exterminate Europes Jews.
b. conquer Britain.
d. rule Europe after conquering it.
To get resources, the Japanese military invaded
a. Taiwan.
c. Tibet.
b. Korea.
d. Manchuria.
The Neutrality Act of 1935 made it illegal for
a. American citizens to join another countrys military.
b. Americans to sell arms to any country at war.
c. Congress to declare war on any country.
d. Americans to join the Communist or Fascist Party.
The first area that Hitler unified with Germany was
a. the Sudetenland.
c. Poland.
b. Czechoslovakia.
d. Austria.
In the Munich Conference, Britain and France
a. told Hitler that they would declare war if he invaded Czechoslovakia.
b. gave in to Hitlers demands for the Sudetenland.
c. allowed Czechoslovakia to become a German protectorate.
d. told Hitler they would declare war if he invaded Poland.
The Nazi-Soviet nonaggression treaty contained a secret deal to
a. divide Poland between them.
c. not fight each other.
b. divide France between them.
d. fight France and Britain.
In the Battle of Britain,
a. British troops defeated the German ground invasion.
b. the British sunk most of the German ships that crossed the English Channel.
c. the German air force destroyed the Royal Air Force.
d. the Royal Air Force saved Britain from invasion.
A night of anti-Jewish violence became known as
a. blitzkrieg.
c. Kristallnacht.
b. Anschluss.
d. Gestapo.
In the Wannsee Conference, Nazi leaders
a. planned the invasion of Poland.
b. negotiated with Britain and France for the Sudetenland.
c. planned the final solution.
d. negotiated a nonaggression treaty with the Soviet Union.
Roosevelt sent destroyers to Britain in exchange for
a. cash.
c. U.S. bases on British-held territory.
b. a promise to pay at wars end.
d. manufactured British goods.
The Lend-Lease Act was Roosevelts way of getting arms to Britain without Britain having to
a. pick them up.
c. take out loans to pay for them.
b. return them after the war.
d. pay cash.

____ 28. Members of the Fascist militia that backed Mussolini were known as
a. storm troopers.
c. kamikazes.
b. the Gestapo.
d. Blackshirts.
____ 29. Although the city of Danzig was more than 90 percent German, since World War I it had been a part of
a. Austria.
c. Czechoslovakia.
b. Poland.
d. France.
____ 30. By focusing on bombing London, Hitler hoped to
a. destroy radar stations along the British coast.
b. conquer land that Germany had lost in World War I.
c. terrorize the British people into surrendering.
d. draw the United States into the war.
____ 31. The Hebrew term for the Holocaust is
a. Shoah.
c. Wannsee.
b. Gestapo.
d. Kristallnacht.
____ 32. At Auschwitz, elderly or disabled people, the sick, and mothers and children were immediately
a. forced to work as slave laborers.
c. deported to Germany.
b. sent to another concentration camp.
d. sent to the gas chambers.
____ 33. In 1940, Roosevelt disregarded the tradition George Washington had set by
a. intervening in a foreign war.
b. lending weapons and other supplies to the Allies.
c. running for a third term.
d. calling Congress into a special session.
____ 34. Roosevelt developed the idea of a hemispheric defense zone in order to
a. protect British cargo ships in the Atlantic from German submarines.
b. allow the transfer of old American destroyers to Britain.
c. prevent Japan from seizing Britains colonial possessions in Asia.
d. enable China to regain the land that Japan had conquered.
____ 35. In order to exterminate Jews more quickly, the Nazis built extermination facilities in a number of
concentration camps, mostly in
a. Germany.
c. France.
b. Poland.
d. Austria.
____ 36. At first, Britain and France gave in to Hitlers demands, a policy known as
a. sitzkrieg.
c. Anschluss.
b. internationalism.
d. appeasement.
____ 37. Mussolini exploited the publics fears by portraying fascism as a bulwark against
a. Nazism.
c. communism.
b. democracy.
d. appeasement.
Completion
Complete each statement.
38. The Fascist militia that supported Mussolini was known as the ____________________.
39. The Nazi paramilitary units called _________________________ intimidated voters, helping the Nazi Party
gain power.
40. In his book, Adolf Hitler claimed that blond, blue-eyed Germans were descendents of a "master race" called
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41. As Hitler began to claim lands for Germany, other nations followed a policy of ____________________, or
giving in to his demands in exchange for peace.
42. Hitler demanded the return of ____________________, a Baltic Sea port that had been separated from
Germany and added to Poland at the end of World War I.
43. Britain and France declared war on Germany when Germany invaded ____________________.
44. The Hebrew term for the Holocaust is ____________________, meaning "catastrophe."
45. The ____________________ Act allowed the United States to send weapons to Britain if Britain promised to
return them or pay rent for them when the war ended.
46. Talks between Roosevelt and Churchill on ships near Newfoundland in 1941 resulted in the
_________________________, which committed the two leaders to a postwar world of democracy, nonaggression, and free trade.
47. Japans attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on the date _________________________ (month, day, and year).
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a. blitzkrieg
f.
b. Benito Mussolini
g.
c. Neville Chamberlain
h.
d. Holocaust
i.
e. Auschwitz
j.
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Adolf Hitler
Anschluss
cash and carry
Gestapo
sitzkrieg

unification
Nazi extermination camp
Der Fhrer
period when Britain and France waited for the Germans to attack
Nazi government secret police
Il Duce
mass killing of millions of European Jews by the Nazis
requirement imposed by the Neutrality Act of 1937 for the purchase of nonmilitary supplies from the U.S.
used a large number of tanks and aircraft to encircle enemies and cut off supply lines
leader who promised peace in our time
Match the World War II leaders with their countries.
a. Spain
c. Italy
b. Germany
d. USSR

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Joseph Stalin
Francisco Franco
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a. Aryans
d. Luftwaffe
b. internationalism
e. Mein Kampf
c. Buchenwald
f. embargo

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believed by Hitler to be a master race

one of the first and largest Nazi concentration camps
idea that trade between nations helps to prevent war
stopped the sale of oil from the United States to Japan
Hitlers autobiography
German air force
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a. Maginot Line
d. Atlantic Charter
b. internationalism
e. collective
c. strategic materials
f. America First Committee

____ 68. French fortifications along the German border

____ 69. agreement that committed the U.S. and Britain to a postwar world of democracy, nonaggression, and free
trade
____ 70. things that a country needs to fight a war
____ 71. staunchly isolationist group that opposed any American intervention or aid to the Allies
____ 72. idea that trade between nations creates prosperity and helps prevent war
____ 73. government-owned farms organized during one of Stalins Five-Year Plans