US History – Chapter 11 Review

Lesson 1

  1. In 1919 Italy, ______founded the Fascist Movement.
  2. An aggressive nationalistic movement that considered the nation more important than the individual was called ______.
  3. In Communist Russia, now called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or Soviet Union, Lenin was succeeded by ______.
  4. As many as 10 million Russians died when Stalin turned family farms into ______, government-owned farms.
  5. After WWI, Hitler became the leader of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, or the ______Party.
  6. Hitler was imprisoned after trying to overthrow the German government. While in prison, Hitler wrote a book entitled ______(My Struggle).
  7. In his book, Hitler claimed that the Germans belonged to a master race called ______.
  8. Hitler and the Nazi Party gained power through elections and he became president of Germany in 1934. He came to be called ______, or “The Leader.”
  9. In 1931, Japan invaded ______, wanting it for its rich mineral resources.
  10. Japan eventually came under the command of the ______.
  11. In 1937, Japan committed genocide by killing over 300,000 Chinese in the city of

______.

  1. In 1938, Hitler pushed troops into neighboring Austria and unified it with Germany called the ______.
  2. Hitler then laid claim to areas of Czechoslovakia containing large numbers of ethnic Germans called the ______.
  3. Germany’s claims resulted in the Munich Conference where Britain and France gave in to Hitler’s demands that came to be known as ______.
  4. Hitler next demanded the free-city of ______located in Poland.
  5. Knowing that if Germany invaded Poland there would be war with Britain and France, Hitler signed a Non-Aggression Pact with ______.
  6. On September 1, 1939, World War II began when Germany invaded ______.
  7. Germany invaded other Western European countries using a new mobile style of warfare called ______, or “lightning war.”
  8. Defeated by the Germans, surviving British and French forces were evacuated to England at the Belgian city of ______.
  9. The German Air Force, or Luftwaffe, began a war in the air over Britain that came to be called the ______.

Lesson 2

  1. Despite the war in Europe, most Americans supported the policy of ______.
  2. Congress kept the US out of war with the passage of several ______

Acts which restricted or prohibited the shipment of supplies to countries at war.

  1. The first clash of Fascism and the forces of Western Democracy was the ______

______in 1936.

  1. Despite America’s policy of neutrality, President Roosevelt supported ______.
  2. Some Americans wanted to help fight Germany and japan. In China, an American volunteer air force, called the ______, was established.
  3. FDR got around neutrality laws as best he could. One way was trading ______

______in return for British bases in the Atlantic.

  1. Roosevelt gave a speech before Congress in which he said America stood for the Four Freedoms: ______, ______,

______, and ______.

  1. FDR could finally get weapons of war to Britain and China when Congress passed the

______Act of 1940.

  1. FDR declared the western half of the Atlantic Ocean a ______

______that would be patrolled by the US Navy.

  1. The US was unhappy with Japan’s attacks on China and in 1940 Congress gave the president the power to restrict the sale of ______.
  2. To get the resources they needed, the Japanese needed the US Navy out of their way and decided to attack the US fleet at ______.
  3. The attack occurred on ______1941.

Lesson 3

  1. Hatred and discrimination against Jews is called ______.
  2. When the Nazis took power in Germany, they deprived the Jews of basic rights by enacting the ______in 1935.
  3. On November 9, 1938, called ______, the Nazis attacked Jews and their property.
  4. Many Jews tried to flee Germany but were not able to immigrate to America due to

______laws.

  1. One boatload of Jews, on the ______, were not allowed into either Cuba or the US and eventually returned to Germany where most eventually perished.
  2. To detain political opponents, Jews, and other undesirables, Germany constructed

______, where the prisoners were used for labor.

  1. Other prisoners, who could not perform any labor deemed helpful, were sent to

______camps.

  1. The decision to exterminate Jews and other prisoners (called the Final Solution) was made at the ______.