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World War II Erupts WWII Review

Directions: ON A SEPARATE piece of notebook paper, answer the questions below. Use your textbook beginning Chapter 13, pg. 455 and Chapter 14, ending in page 525 to answer the following questions.

1. In what year did Germany invade Poland? 2. What American runner was living proof that Hitler’s racist ideals were wrong in the 1936 Olympics? 3. What was France’s opinion of the Treaty of Versailles? 4. Who suffered the most from the Treaty of Versailles? 5. Define inflation: 6. What was Germany’s democratic government called? 7. Name 2 weaknesses of Germany’s democratic government? 8. What dictator rose to power in Italy? 9. What political party was he affiliated with? 10. Define dictatorship: 11. What did “Il Duce” mean? 12. Where was Hitler born? 13. What was the title of Hitler’s book? 14. What did the title of Hitler’s book mean? 15. What political party was Hitler affiliated with? 16. How did Hitler defend his attempts to expand German boundaries to the French and British? 17. Who took power in the Soviet Union in the mid 1920s? 18. What was a political problem facing Japan in the 1920s? 19. What was the response of the United States to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria? 20. Define Appeasement: 21. What is blitzkrieg? 22. Who were the Tuskegee Airmen? (Chapter 14) 23. What new British technology allowed the British Royal Air force to survive during the Battle of Britain? 24. What was the name of the German air force? 25. What was Kristallnacht? Explain what happened. 26. Who was blamed for Kristallnacht? 27. Which 3 countries were known as the “Axis powers”? 28. Which 3 countries AFTER France was eliminated from the war were known as the “Allied Powers”? 29. Who were the Gestapo? 30. What was Adolf Hitler’s “final solution”?