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HAPTER 24
CHAPTER ASSESSMENT
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OOMS
1937
Japan invades
China.
Nov. 1938
Kristallnacht, Night of
Broken Glass, Nazis
destroy property and
arrest over 20,000
Jews.
1931
Japan invades
Manchuria.
1932
Nazi Party becomes
the most powerful
in Germany.
Mar. 1933
First concentration
camp opens at
Oranienburg.
Adolf Hitler becomes
dictator of Germany.
Sept. 1935
Nuremberg Laws
instituted against
Jews in Germany.
Oct. 1935
Italian troops
invade Ethiopia.
Mar. 1936
Germany occupies
Rhineland.
Jul. 1936
Spanish Civil War
begins.
Oct. 1936
Germany and Italy
form Axis.
Mar. 1941
Roosevelt signs the
Lend-Lease Act.
Jun. 1941
Nazis begin mass
murder of the Jews.
Dec. 1941
Pearl Harbor is
bombed. U.S.
declares war.
Mar. 1939
Germany invades the
Sudetenland.
Sept. 1939
Germany invades
Poland. Britain and
France declare war
on Germany and
World War II begins.
June 1940
France surrenders.
Sept. 1940
Japan signs
tripartite pact with
Germany and Italy.
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
VISUAL SUMMARY
TERMS & NAMES
For each term or name below, write a sentence explaining its
significance in U.S. foreign affairs between 1931 and 1941.
1. fascism 6. Charles de Gaulle
2. Adolf Hitler 7. Holocaust
3. Nazism 8. genocide
4. Winston Churchill 9. Axis powers
5. appeasement 10. Allies
MAIN IDEAS
Use your notes and the information in the chapter to answer
the following questions about the early years of World War II.
Dictators Threaten World Peace (pages 734–741)
1. What were Stalin’s goals and what steps did he take to
achieve them?
2. How did Germany’s and Italy’s involvement affect the out-
come of the Spanish Civil War?
War in Europe (pages 742–747)
3. Why was the blitzkrieg effective?
4. What terms of surrender did Hitler demand of the French
after the fall of France in 1940? What was General Charles
de Gaulle’s reaction?
The Holocaust (pages 748–755)
5. What groups did Nazis deem unfit to belong to the Aryan
“master race”?
6. How did some Europeans show their resistance to Nazi
persecution of the Jews?
America Moves Toward War (pages 756–763)
7. What congressional measures paved the way for the U.S.
entry into World War II?
8. Why did the United States enter World War II?
CRITICAL THINKING
1. USING YOUR NOTES In a chart like the one shown, identify
the effects of each of these early events of World War II.
2. COMPARING Compare the ways in which Hitler, Churchill, and
Roosevelt used their powers as gifted speakers to accomplish
their political aims during World War II. Use details from the
chapter text.
3. INTERPRETING MAPS Look at the map of German advances
on page 744. How might Poland’s location have influenced the
secret pact that Germany and the Soviet Union signed on
August 23, 1939?
Cause Effect
First blitzkrieg
Allies stranded at Dunkirk
British radar detects German aircraft
Lend-Lease Act