WWII Leaders
WWII Geography
Pre-War Aggression
WWII Politics
Treaties, Acts & Pacts
100
This man was the military leader and premier of Japan during WWII.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
100
Tokyo, Berlin and Rome
What are the national capitals of Japan, Germany and Italy respectively?
100
Known as Abyssinia at that time, Italy took over this African nation in 1935.
What is Ethiopia?
100
A form of totalitarian government which is is characterized by extreme nationalism and militarism. It first came into power in Italy in 1922.
What is fascism?
100
This 1941 Act moved the U. S. away from isolationism by allowing the U. S. to send aid to nations whose defense was vital to U. S. national security.
What is the Lend-Lease Act of 1941?
200
He was the communist dictator of the Soviet Union before, during and after WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
200
London, Moscow and Paris
What are the capitals of Great Britain, the USSR and France respectively?
200
Refered to as Anschluss, Germany annexed this German-speaking nation into the greater-German Reich in 1938.
What is Austria?
200
This is the German style of fascism. Also known as the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
What is Nazism?
200
This 1935 Act prohibited the U. S. from selling weapons to nations at war
What is the Neutrality Act?
300
This man was the 31st President of the U.S. and led the U.S. during WWII. He died in office before the end of the war.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
300
The name for the combined forces of the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the U. S. during WWII.
What is the Allies?
300
On December 7, 1941, this event caused the U. S. to enter WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
300
When a nation remains neutral in foreign conflicts and focuses more attention on domestic issues.
What is Isolationism?
300
This 1939 agreement between Hitler and Stalin stated Germany and the USSR would agree not to attach each other, and it also divided Poland between the two European superpowers.
What is the German/Soviet Non-Agression Pact?
400
Fascist leaders and advocates of territorial expansion, these two men led Germany and Italy respectively before and during WWII.
Who were Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini?
400
This area of Germay was de-militarized as a punishment to Germany in the Treaty of Versailles. In 1936, Germany sent troops into the area. This was the first major incident of German territorial aggression in Europe.
What is the invasion of the Rhineland?
400
On September 1, 1939 this event triggered WWII and is considered the immediate cause of WWII in Europe.
What is the German invasion of Poland?
400
When a nation develops a strong military and aggressively uses it to promote national interests.
What is Militarism?
400
An act of appeasement by Great Britain and France, this Pact allowed Germany to absorb the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in 1938.
What is the Munich Pact?
500
The leader of Great Britain during WWII, this man critized the past policies of appeasement with Germany and readied his nation for eventual war.
Who was Sir Winston Churchill?
500
The Tripartite Alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan during WWII.
What are the Axis Powers?
500
This is a policy of giving in to an agressor in the hope that the aggressor will be satisfied and future conflicts will be avoided.
What is Appeasement?
500
A German word meaning "living space", this socio-economic concept dealt with aggressively expanding German territory.
What is Lebenstraum?
500
The Treaty which ended WWI that unfairly blamed & punished Germany for the Great War.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
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