World War II The rise of dictators

Question 1

Hitler

Answer 1

Hitler joined the Nazi party when he was still very young and quickly climbed the ranks, eventually becoming the party’s leader. Hitler eventually became chancellor of Germany and was given executive power over the entire nation after the burning of the Reichstag building

Question 2

Mussolini

Answer 2

Fascist leader of Italy and ally to Adolf Hitler, Mussolini took control of Italy and turned it into a Fascist state, giving him complete control over it and its army and industries.

Question 3

Emperor Hirohito

Answer 3

Hirohito was born into power, and dedicated his life to expanding Japanese territory into China.

Question 4

Joseph Stalin

Answer 4

Joseph Stalin was the leader of Russia, also known as the U.S.S.R. (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics)
They were a self proclaimed communist state, but Joseph Stalin held executive powers like that of a Fascist leader

Question 5

Winston Churchill

Answer 5

Prime Minister of Great Britain during WW2.
Winston Churchill declined Hitler’s offer of peace.

Question 6

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Answer 6

Prime Minister of Canada during WW2.
Supported recruitment efforts in Canada and raised money to support the War effort.

Question 7

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 7

President of the United States for the majority of World War II.
Helped fundamentally change the US through his New Deal during the Great Depression.
Led the US to victory in Europe and the Pacific.

Question 8

Japanese invasion of China

Answer 8

the Japanese army killed over 14 million Chinese, and mass atrocities were frequent during which the Japanse soldigers would rape and murder mass amounts of Chinese civilians.

Question 9

Hitler’s Rise to Power

Answer 9

Hitler joined the Nazi party when he was still very young. He was imprisoned, where he would write his book Mein Kampf, in which he blamed all of Germany’s struggles on the communists and the Jewish people.
Once released, he once more rose to power during the Great Depression, and the Nazi party became the leading party in Germany’s Weimar Republic; they had their own uniforms, salutes, songs and even their own symbol: the swastika.

Question 10

Germany takes back territory (Rhineland, Czechoslovakia, Austria)

Answer 10

• Little by little, Hitler began taking back territory that Germany had lost after World War l, such as Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Question 11

Chamberlain and appeasement

Answer 11

Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Britain, had failed to Stop Hitler’s aggression with the Munich Agreement and his policy of appeasement, it was clear that he could do nothing to stop Germany’s expansion.

Question 12

Germany and the USSR invade Poland

Answer 12

They struck hard and fast with all the tanks (Panzers) and planes (Luftwaffe) that they had.

• They took the country of Poland by surprise, and within days had taken over most of the country.

Question 13

Germany invades France

Answer 13

They soon after invaded France, who was equally unprepared, and it was not long before the French army was forced to surrender.

Question 14

Evacuation at Dunkirk

Answer 14

300 000 British and French troops managed to escape from the port of Dunkirk as the Germans closed in. Shortly after, France officially surrendered.