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A World in Flames

Quiz by Paul Bachman

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  • Q1
    staunchly isolationist group that opposed any American intervention or aid to the Allies
    internationalism
    cash-and-carry
    America First Committee
    Atlantic Charter
    30s
  • Q2
    Nazi extermination camp where an estimated 1,600,000 people died
    Atlantic Charter
    Manzanar
    Auschwitz
    Anschluss
    30s
  • Q3
    dictator who rose to power in Germany in the 1930s
    Adolf Hitler
    Benito Mussolini
    America First Committee
    Neville Chamberlain
    30s
  • Q4
    idea that trade between nations creates prosperity and helps prevent war
    America First Committee
    internationalism
    Anschluss
    embargo
    30s
  • Q5
    unification, used specifically to describe Germany’s takeover of Austria
    cash-and-carry
    embargo
    internationalism
    Anschluss
    30s
  • Q6
    Fascist leader who established a dictatorship in Italy
    Woodrow Wilson
    Neville Chamberlain
    Benito Mussolini
    Adolf Hitler
    30s
  • Q7
    agreement that committed the signing nations to a postwar world of democracy, nonaggression, and free trade
    internationalism
    America First Committee
    embargo
    Atlantic Charter
    30s
  • Q8
    basis on which warring nations could buy arms from the United States under the Neutrality Act of 1939
    give-and-take
    cash only
    give-and-go
    cash-and-carry
    30s
  • Q9
    policy that stopped all sales of fuel and scrap iron from the United States to Japan
    Atlantic Charter
    internationalism
    Anschluss
    embargo
    30s
  • Q10
    British leader who promised “peace for our time” after meeting with Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    Neville Chamberlain
    Benito Mussolini
    Winston Churchill
    30s
  • Q11
    Two major causes of the rise of dictatorships after World War I were
    the emergence of new political ideas and economic depression.
    the Treaty of Versailles and a lack of strong leadership after the war.
    the Treaty of Versailles and economic depression.
    the emergence of new political ideas and a lack of strong leadership after the war.
    30s
  • Q12
    How did Adolf Hitler strengthen the Nazi Party after he was released from prison?
    He sent Jews and others to concentration camps.
    He tried to seize power by marching on the city hall in Munich.
    He accepted the peace terms between the Allies and the German government.
    He focused on getting Nazis elected to the lower house of the German parliament.
    30s
  • Q13
    At the Munich Conference in 1938, Britain and France
    told Hitler they would declare war if Germany invaded Czechoslovakia.
    told Hitler they would declare war if Germany invaded Poland.
    gave in to Hitler’s demands for the Sudetenland.
    allowed Czechoslovakia to become a German protectorate.
    30s
  • Q14
    In 1934 the Nye Committee report created the impression that America’s entry into World War I was influenced by
    militarism in Europe.
    American arms manufacturers.
    attacks on American merchant ships.
    European Communists.
    30s
  • Q15
    President Franklin Roosevelt believed the United States should try to preserve peace in the world, but many Americans supported_______________ and wanted the United States to avoid involvement in international conflicts.
    isolationism
    fascism
    internationalism
    communism
    30s

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