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HAPTER 24
CHAPTER ASSESSMENT
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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
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ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT
1. Recall your discussion of
the question on page 733:
Why might the United States try
to remain neutral?
As a political cartoonist for a major newspaper,
your work is seen by millions of Americans. Draw
a political cartoon that supports or opposes the
policy of neutrality.
2. LEARNING FROM MEDIA View the
American Stories video, “Escaping the
Final Solution: Kurt Klein and Gerda Weissmann
Klein Remember the Holocaust.”
• What conditions that Gerda faced would be most
difficult for you to endure?
Cooperative Learning Activity It has been said,
“Those who cannot remember the past are con-
demned to repeat it.”
As a group, collect quotations and historical data
about the Holocaust. Then write a book introduction
about the Holocaust that incorporates quotations
and the importance of the first-person accounts of
survivors, such as the Kleins.
INTERACT
INTERACT
WITH HISTORY
WITH HISTORY
Standardized Test Practice
Use the cartoon and your knowledge of U.S. history
to answer questions 1 and 2.
1. All of the following are true of F.D.R.’s neutrality
policy except —
A Roosevelt found it hard to keep the United
States neutral.
B Roosevelt did not always enforce the Neutrality
Acts.
C Roosevelt promoted the Neutrality Policy of the
United States throughout the war.
D Roosevelt spoke out against isolationism.
2. President Wilson’s image rises above President
Roosevelt to wish him luck for —
F helping to pass the bill he is signing.
G keeping the United States out of a war.
H winning the next presidential election.
J gaining greater revenues from Europe.
Use the quotation and your knowledge of U.S. history
to answer question 3.
In the future days, which we seek to make secure,
we look forward to a world founded upon four
essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of
speech and expression. —everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship
God in his own way. —everywhere in the world. The
third is freedom from want. . . . The fourth is freedom
from fear.
Franklin Roosevelt, Address to Congress, 1941
3. The “four freedoms” speech helped gain wide-
spread support in the United States for —
A increasing aid to the Allies.
B decreasing immigration.
C a military and arms buildup.
D a presidential election.
ADDITIONAL TEST PRACTICE, pages S1–S33.
ITEST PRACTICE
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