World War II

The unofficial start to World War II is

• when Hitler invaded Poland

• when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

• when Hitler annexed Austria

• when Japan invaded Manchuria

The League of Nations voted sanctions against which country for invading Ethiopia in 1935?

• Italy

• Germany

• Greece

• The Soviet Union

What did Stalin and Hitler agree to do when they signed the Nazi Soviet Pact?

• Agreed to not go to war with Poland

• Split Poland between them

• Agreed to attack the United States

• None of the above

The U.S. military strategy that brought them closer to Japan was called ________.

• guerrilla warfare

• Leap frogging

• Island Hopping

• Blitzkrieg

The ______ allowed the U.S. president to aid American Allies during the war.

• Marshall Plan

• Neutrality Acts

• Truman Doctrine

• Lend-Lease Act

What was the name of the secret assignment to create the atom bomb?

• the New York Project

• Operation Overlord

• the Manhattan Project

• Operation Barbarossa

How did the aircraft carrier change naval battles?

• Naval battles could be fought with greater intensity

• Naval battles could be fought without the ships ever seeing one another

• Aircraft carriers were virtually impossible to sink

• Naval battles were no longer waged

Great Britain and France adopted a policy of ______ to deal with Hitler.

• Appeasement

• Tolerance

• Indifference

• Isolation

The big 3 met in the city of ______ in 1945 to discuss how to divide Germany at the end of the war.

• Tehran

• Moscow

• Yalta

• Berlin

After the battle of _______ the Japanese navy was unable to launch anymore offensive operations.

• Iwo Jima

• Okinawa

• Coral Sea

• Midway