Intro to WWII Quiz

______ transformed the Soviet Union into an industrial power, while also starving its people.

• Vladimir Putin
• Benito Mussolini

• Joseph Stalin
• Mikhail Gorbachev

Which politician was famous for his use of appeasement prior to WWII?

• Joseph Stalin
• Adolf Hitler
• Neville Chamberlain
• Winston Churchill

The policy of appeasement stated __________

• to give in to the demands of an aggressor in order to maintain peace
• to ignore the demands of the aggressor
• to declare war on the aggressor
• to negotiate a peace treaty with the aggressor

______ was the dictator of Italy during World War II.

• Adolf Hitler

• Benito Mussolini

• Joseph Stalin

• Winston Churchill

The United States retreated to its policy of ________ after WWI.

• colonialism
• interventionism
• internationalism
• isolationism

The "Anschluss" refers to ______

• Annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
• The division of Germany
• The independence of Austria
• The unification of Italy

Nazi Germany gained land in THIS order ______

• Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Rhineland

• Czechoslovakia, Rhineland, Sudetenland, Austria

• Austria, Rhineland, Czechoslovakia, Sudetenland

• Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia

The Nye Committee was _______

• a committee that regulated the food industry during World War I
• a United States Senate committee that investigated the munitions industry during World War I
• a committee that investigated the entertainment industry during World War I
• a committee that focused on environmental issues during World War I

Kristallnacht refers to _______

• A set of laws introduced in 1935 that took away Jewish political rights.

• A peace treaty between Germany and Austria
• A religious holiday in Nazi Germany
• A series of coordinated attacks against Jewish people throughout Nazi Germany.

These two laws made up the Nuremberg Laws

• The Holocaust Law & The Law for the Protection of German Blood and Germany Honor.

• Law for the Protection of Italian Blood and Italian Honor, and the Reich Citizenship Law

• The Anti-Jewish Law and the Kristallnacht Law.

• Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, and the Reich Citizenship Law