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| 9650168852 | How did global conflict begin in 1931? | Japanese invasion Manchuria | 0 | |
| 9650168853 | Who did Japan launch a full scale invasion on in 1937? | China | 1 | |
| 9650168854 | What was the Rape of Nanjing? | characterized war waged against civilians, aerial bombing of Shanghai, in Nanjing, widespread rape and slaughter | 2 | |
| 9650168855 | How did the Chinese resist Japanese attack? | Nationalists and communists formed "united front" against Japanese, unable to effectively work together, they conducted guerilla attacks, communists gained popular support throughout war | 3 | |
| 9650168856 | Who did Japan make a triple pact with? | Germany and Italy | 4 | |
| 9650168857 | Who did Japan make a neutrality pact with? | The Soviet Union | 5 | |
| 9650168858 | What happened to Italy after WWI? | Italians felt slighted at the Paris Peace Conference, Italian losses high in World War I; economy never recovered, Mussolini promised national glory, empire, annexed Libya; invaded Ethiopia (1935-1936), killed 250,000 Ethiopians | 6 | |
| 9650168859 | What happened to Germany after WWI? | deep resentment at Treaty of Versailles, harsh terms: reparations, economic restrictions, former Allies inclined not to object when Hitler violated terms of the treaty, Hitler blamed Jews, communists, liberals for losing the war and accepting the treaty | 7 | |
| 9650168860 | What does Anschluss mean? | Union | 8 | |
| 9650168861 | What did Hitler refer to the signing of the 1918 armistice as? | The November Crime | 9 | |
| 9650168862 | How did Hitler ignore the peace settlement? | Rebuilt military, air force; reinstated draft, took back the Rhineland, 1936, then annexed Austria, 1938 Reclaimed Sudetenland from western Czechoslovakia, 1938 | 10 | |
| 9650168863 | How did Germany violate the Munich Conference? | Hitler seized most of Czechoslovakia | 11 | |
| 9650168864 | What were the agreements of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact? | Both nations agreed not to attack each other and to maintain neutrality if either of them went to war with a third party | 12 | |
| 9650168865 | What does panzer mean? | armored | 13 | |
| 9650168866 | What does Blitzkrieg mean? | Lightening war | 14 | |
| 9650168867 | What is the strategy of Blitzkrieg? | unannounced, surprise attacks | 15 | |
| 9650168868 | What happened in the Nazi invasion of Poland? | Poland defeated in one month, divided between Germany and Soviet Union | 16 | |
| 9650168869 | What was the Battle of Britain? | Germans' strategy to defeat Britain solely through air attacks, aerial bombing killed forty thousand British civilians; Royal Air Force prevented defeat | 17 | |
| 9650168870 | What was the German air force called? | Luftwaffe | 18 | |
| 9650168871 | What does Lebensraum mean? | Living space | 19 | |
| 9650168872 | What was Operation Barbarossa? | German surprise invasion of Soviet Union, June 1941, wanted eastern land on which to resettle Germans, captured Russian heartland; Leningrad under siege; troops outside Moscow | 20 | |
| 9650168873 | Why were Blitzkrieg strategies less effective on Russia? | Soviets drew on tremendous reserves: 360 Soviet divisions against 150 German | 21 | |
| 9650168874 | What happened as the Japanese expanded in to Southeast Asia? | United States responded by freezing Japanese assets, implementing oil embargo, demanded withdrawal from China and southeast Asia, Prime minister Tojo Hikedi developed plan of attack | 22 | |
| 9650168875 | What happened after the attack on Pearl Harbor? | U.S. naval power in Pacific devastated, United States declared war on Japan; Germany and Italy declared war on United States | 23 | |
| 9650168876 | What were Japanese victories after Pearl Harbor? | Conquered Philippines, Dutch East Indies, Indochina, Burma, Singapore | 24 | |
| 9650168877 | What slogan of the Japanese masked Japanese imperialism against fellow Asians? | Asia for Asia | 25 | |
| 9650168878 | What was the impact of the US and Soviet Union entry to WWII? | Brought vital personnel and industry to Allies, German subs sank 2,452 merchants ships, but U.S. shipyards built more | 26 | |
| 9650168879 | What events led up to the Allied victories? | Russians defeated the Germans at Stalingrad, pushed them back, British-U.S. troops invaded North Africa and then Italy, British-U.S. forces invaded northern France at Normandy, overwhelmed Germans on coast of Normandy, 6 June 1944,Round-the-clock strategic bombing by United States and Britain leveled German cities, Germans surrendered unconditionally 8 May 1945; Hitler committed suicide | 27 | |
| 9650168880 | What was the turning point of war in the Pacific? | Battle of Midway | 28 | |
| 9650168881 | On what two islands of Japan was fighting most savage? | Iwo Jima and Okinawa | 29 | |
| 9650168882 | What events led up to Japanese surrender? | U.S. firebombing raids devastated Japanese cities: in Tokyo, one hundred thousand killed, August 1945: atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed two hundred thousand, The Soviet Union declared war on Japan, 8 August, Japanese emperor surrendered unconditionally 15 August, ending WWII | 30 | |
| 9650168883 | Who was the emperor during Japan's surrender? | Hirohito | 31 |
