World War 2

How would you describe an authoritarian state?

• A democracy

• It holds power and makes policy without consent of the people it rules

• It is a communist regime

• It gives power to the people

What role did Franklin D. Roosevelt play during World War 2?

• He fought alongside Germany

• He placed emphasis on the defeat of Germany while monitoring Japan

• He allowed Germany to win the war.

• He remained neutral and asked to England to do so as well

What fueled fascism in Italy during WW2?

• Hitler gaining power

• Inflation, unemployment and the "Great Depression" of the 1930s.

• Mussolini's government

• Argentina's love for fascism

Following the signing of the Peace Treaty of 1919, where did the term "nazi" originate?

• The National Socialist German Worker's Party

• Mein Kampf

• The Treaty of Versailles

• The people of Germany

Mao Zedong decided not to join forces with Joseph Stalin because...

• He felt that China wasn't strong enough to work alongside the U.S.S.R.

• China had already invested military resources on Japan

• China begin to create a dictatorship after ousting Chiang Kai-shek leader of the Republic of China

• China was strong enough to mobilize its own country and simply wanted a seat at the table

What does "Mein Kampf" mean?

• Faith, Hope and Charity

• Power to the People

• My Struggle

• My Forgiveness

What beliefs did Hitler share with his right-wing political group in 1919?

• To overturn the Peace Treaty and combat communism

• To punish Mussolini

• Declare war on the United States of America

• Join forces with Italy

What was Joseph Stalin's role during WW2?

• He denied China a seat at the table

• He industrialized the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and forcibly collectivized its agriculture

• He followed the policies of Vladimir Lenin

• He defeated Hitler's military in Poland

Joseph Stalin also...

• Used extreme police terror and helped to defeat Germany between 1941-45

• Saved parts of Poland and Romania

• decided not to invade Finland

• Fought alongside Germany

Francisco Franco became dictator to which country?

• Ecuador

• San Salvador

• Portugal

• Spain