Ch. 8 sec. 1

Question 1

Benito Mussolini

Answer 1

Italian dictator

Question 2

facism

Answer 2

dictatorship way of government

Question 3

Adolf Hitler

Answer 3

German dictator, Nazi Party head

Question 4

Joseph Stalin

Answer 4

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union 1924-1953

Question 5

Hideki Tojo

Answer 5

Prime Minister of Japan 1941-1944

Question 6

The Axis

Answer 6

The Rome-Berlin Axis, the alliance between Mussolini and Hitler, later joined by Japan. The Soviet Union were the first to join.

Question 7

The Munich Agreement

Answer 7

a settlement permitting Nazi Germany’s invasion of portions of Czechoslovakia

Question 8

German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

Answer 8

August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union were to take no military action against each other for 10 years. Germany broke the Pact by attacking the Soviet Union.

Question 9

blitzkrieg

Answer 9

German war tactic where speed and surprise in use of tanks, troops, and planes.

Question 10

Battle of Britain

Answer 10

the Luft Waffe attacked Great Britain, but Britain did not surrender

Question 11

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 11

Allowed U.S. to lend weapons to Allies, Roosevelt supported

Question 12

Pearl Harbor

Answer 12

U.S. naval base attacked by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941