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9th Grade Study Guide for World War 2 Test.
1. The United States threatened to impose economic _________, or restrictions intended to enforce international law, on Japan if it did not withdrawfrom China. Sanctions
2. Hitler believed Germans belonged to the ________ race, which was superior to all other races and nationalities. Aryan
3. At the Yalta Conference, the issue of _______ inEastern Europe caused a serious split between the Soviets and the Americans. free elections
4. One of the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles made the Rhineland a ________ area, or an areawhere Germany was forbidden to have weapons or fortifications. Demilitarized
5. The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was a community of nations under the direction of ____________________.Japan6. The Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy in the country of ____________________ on D-Day. France
7. Benito Mussolini took an aggressive military stance and allied himself with Hitlerin order to create a new, powerful _____________________ Empire. Roma
8. After the British air force inflicted major losses on the German Luftwaffe bombers, Hitler postponed the invasion of Britainindefinitely and turned his attention to the Soviet Union.
9. What prevented the United States from taking sides or becoming involved in World War I at the beginning? a series of neutrality actspassed in the 1930s
10. The Germans responded to the French construction the heavily fortified Maginot Line along its border with Germany by going around it.
11. As part of the ___________,Hitler promised Stalin control of eastern Poland and the Baltic states. Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
12. The London Blitz was known as “London’s finest hour” because the morale of Londonersremained strong despite heavy destruction.
13. In 1945 and 1946, trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, condemned Nazi leaders for crimes against humanity.
14. Roosevelt favored the idea of _______...