World War II - Causes

This list highlights some acts of aggression by a European dictator in the 1930s. - invaded and annexed Austria - demanded Czechoslovakia hand over the Sudetenland - invaded Poland in 1939 Which European leader is associated with these acts that led to World War II?

• Benito Mussolini

• Adolf Hitler

• Francisco Franco

• Joseph Stalin

Which title correctly replaces the question mark?

• Events That Encouraged the United States to Join NATO

• Events That Inspired U.S. Nationalism during World War I

• Events That Contributed to U.S. Rejection of the League of Nations

• Events That Led to U.S. Involvement in World War II

Which statement correctly summarizes the reason for this speech?

• Axis violations of international law caused the United States to hold criminal trials.

• German expansion in Western Europe caused the United States to assist France.

• Japanese aggression in the Pacific caused the United States to declare war.

• Allied defeats on the battlefield caused the United States to develop new weapons.

Which event prompted the United States to enter World War II?

• The German annexation of Austria

• The Soviet occupation of Germany

• The landing of Allied soldiers on Normandy Beach

• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Which action replaces the question mark on this cause-and-effect diagram?

• implements an embargo against Japan

• sends ground troops to fight the Chinese

• bans the sale of weapons to China

• appeases Japanese demands for new territory

The event reported in this dispatch led directly to —

• the implementation of sanctions against Japan

• U.S. entry into World War II

• the establishment of the Truman Doctrine

• U.S. annexation of Hawaii

Which action prompted the United States to officially enter World War II?

• The German use of blitzkrieg tactics in Europe

• Japanese military actions in Indochina

• German submarine attacks on U.S. merchant ships

• The Japanese bombing of a U.S. military base

What was one reason Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor?

• The U.S. strategy of island hopping had disturbed Pacific trade routes.

• The Japanese naval fleet had been defeated at the Battle of Midway.

• Japanese Americans had been relocated to internment camps.

• U.S. trade sanctions had caused shortages of oil, gas, and rubber.

There is a solidarity and interdependence about the modern world . . . which makes it impossible for any nation completely to isolate itself from economic and political upheavals in the rest of the world, especially when such upheavals appear to be spreading and not declining. . . . International anarchy destroys every foundation for peace. It jeopardizes . . . the future security of every nation, large or small. It is, therefore, a matter of vital interest and concern to the people of the United States that the sanctity of international treaties and the maintenance of international morality be restored. —President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937. President Roosevelt later used similar reasoning as one justification for —

• the implementation of the Marshall Plan

• dropping atomic bombs on Japan

• U.S. involvement in World War II

• U.S. participation in the League of Nations

What was the ultimate result of the situation President Roosevelt refers to in this excerpt?

• A) A surge of social unrest in South America

• B) The outbreak of World War II

• C) A shift in favor of the policy of appeasement

• D) The overthrow of the monarchy in Russia.