Axis Powers
Question: What country's Prime Minister famously promised to "never surrender" to Germany during the war?
Answer: Great Britain (or the United Kingdom)
Question: After WWI, this treaty punished Germany harshly, causing anger and economic problems that helped Hitler rise to power.
Answer: The Treaty of Versailles
Question: Who was the leader (dictator) of Germany during World War II?
Question: Who was the President of the United States for most of the war, leading the country out of the Great Depression?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
Question: Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers believed in taking over other countries to gain more land and power. What is this idea called?
Answer: Expansionism (or aggression, or imperialism)
Japan
Question: What major country, now Russia, joined the Allies after Germany broke their non-aggression pact and invaded them?
Answer: The Soviet Union (USSR)
Question: The official start of World War II in Europe was when Germany invaded what neighboring country on September 1, 1939?
Answer: Poland
Question: Who was the leader of Italy, the third main Axis power, who wanted to create a new Roman Empire?
Question: What Asian country was fighting against Japan even before the major war started and became one of the "Big Four" Allies?
Answer: China
Question: What surprise attack by Japan in 1941 finally caused the United States to enter World War II?
Answer: The attack on Pearl Harbor
Question: What agreement signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan officially created the Axis alliance in 1940?
Question: Name the two main leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States who met with Joseph Stalin to plan the end of the war.
Answer: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt (or Harry S. Truman later in the war)
Question: Besides wanting land, what other terrible plan did Hitler have to get rid of people he thought were "inferior," like Jewish people?
Answer: The Holocaust (or the "Final Solution")