7.1 - World War II

The date that marked the beginning of World War II

September 1st 1939

Fascist dictator of Italy also known as “Il Duce” who ruled from the 1920s to the 1940s

Benito Mussolini

The date that marked the beginning of World War II

September 1st 1939

Fascist dictator of Italy also known as “Il Duce” who ruled from the 1920s to the 1940s

Benito Mussolini

Fuhrer of Germany from the 1930s to the 1940s

Adolf Hitler

Who painted the mural, ‘Guernica’?

Pablo Picasso

What was the name of the small Basque town that was attacked by Italian and German air forces on April 26th 1937

Guernica

What event marked the beginning of World War II

The Nazi Germany invasion of Poland

What is the name of the policy the U.S. used to avoid war?

Isolationism / Neutrality Acts

Last dictator of Spain who ruled from the 1930s to the 1970s

Francisco Franco

Hitler sent his troops into this “demilitarized” area in 1936…

Rhineland

What was the official name of the Nazi Party?

National Socialist German Workers Party

What country did Italy invade in 1935

Ethiopia

At the Munich Conference in 1938, what did Hitler assure Britain and France in exchange for the Sudetenland and who was the Prime Minister who went on to appease Hitler?

Hitler assured Britain and France that he wouldn't make any more territorial demands in Europe in exchange for the Sudetenland. Prime Minister of Britain, Chamberlain, appeased Hitler.

What was the reason for the development of the policy of appeasement?

Fascism was considered less of a threat that communism

What was the result of the civil war in Spain?

Francisco Franco came into power and created a fascist dictatorship

Hitler justified Germany's aggression by stating that...

Germans had the right to conquer inferior peoples

What did Hitler do involving the Munich Pact?

Hitler broke his promises

Who made up the Axis Powers?

Germany, Italy, and Japan

What was the Anschluss?

The union of Austria and Germany

What does pacifism mean?

opposition to all war

What does appeasement mean?

To give in to the demands of an aggressor

German term for "living space"

Lebensraum

This world organization was created after World War I to prevent future conflicts...

League of Nations

What is Anti-Semitism?

Hostility to or prejudice against Jews.

What nation was not invited to the Munich Conference other than Russia?

Czechoslovakia

In 1939 Hitler invaded and annexed ___________ in order to unite all German speaking people

Austria

What event occurred first in Hitler's expansion?

Marching into the Rhineland

What event followed the Marching into the Rhineland?

Austria and the Anschluss

What event came after the Anschluss?

Sudetenland

What event occurred after the Sudetenland?

Take over of Czechoslovakia

What was the final event in the sequence before World War II?

Invasion of Poland