Chapter 26 - The Second World War (1933-1945)

Italy

In ________, Benito Mussolini assumed control by promising law and order.

Adolf Hitler

________ rearmed Germany in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles.

Soviet Union

The ________ and the United States emerged from the war as global superpowers, with the United States possessing the worlds strongest economy.

Hitler

________ then invaded Poland with the blitzkrieg strategy in September 1939, after signing a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union.

Benito Mussolini

In Italy, ________ assumed control by promising law and order.

Czechoslovakia

By March 1939, Nazi Germany had annexed Austria and seized ________.

Lend-Lease Act

The United States issued “neutrality laws” to avoid being drawn into wars in Europe and Asia, but with the fall of France, Roosevelt accelerated military aid to Great Britain through the ________.

War Production Board

The federal government, through agencies such as the ________, took control of managing the economy.

Yalta Conference

The “Big Three” Allied leaders—Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin—met at the ________ in February 1945, where they decided that a conquered Germany would be divided into four occupation zones.

Battle of Midway

he Japanese advance across the Pacific was halted in June 1942 with the ________.