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=**Questions you should be able to answer**=


 * 1) When did WWII start in Europe?
 * 2) Which port city in Poland did Hitler want to control?
 * 3) Who fought in the Winter War?
 * 4) Why did American isolationists believe there was a phony war?
 * 5) Where did Hitler invade, which ended the idea of a phony war?
 * 6) Why were Denmark and Norway important to Hitler to control?
 * 7) Which four nations would Hitler invade in Plan Yellow?
 * 8) What were the Dunkirk Evacuations?
 * 9) What was the name of the northern part of France under Hitler's control?
 * 10) What was the name of the southeastern part of France that was loyal to Hitler?
 * 11) Who led the French Resistance in Britain?
 * 12) What nation would Hitler invade in Operation Sea Lion?
 * 13) What technology helped keep Hitler from being successful?
 * 14) Which nations did Hitler turn his attention to when he saw he couldn't take this nation?
 * 15) Which nation did Hitler attack in Operation Barbarrossa.
 * 16) What was the Destroyers for Bases Deal?
 * 17) What was the Lend-Lease Act?
 * 18) How would the U.S. be the Arsenal of Democracy?
 * 19) What were the four freedoms FDR wanted to protect?
 * 20) What was the Atlantic Charter?
 * 21) Who was the British Prime Minister who pushed for U.S. involvement?
 * 22) FDR's decision not to build the military to ensure his re-election would hurt the nation. How?

ANSWERS:
 * 1) Germany invaded Poland September 1, 1939
 * 2) Danzig
 * 3) USSR and Finland
 * 4) There wasn't any fighting over the winter of 1939 into 1940.
 * 5) Scandinavia (Denmark and Norway)
 * 6) Denmark would give him added control of the coastline and Norway would give him a strategic point in the Northern Atlantic.
 * 7) Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France
 * 8) Narrow escape of the French and British soldiers from France to Britain.
 * 9) Occupied France
 * 10) Vichy France
 * 11) Charles de Gaulle
 * 12) Britain
 * 13) Radar and Barrage Balloons
 * 14) Yugoslavia, Greece, Romania, Hungaria, Bulgaria
 * 15) USSR
 * 16) Britain got 50 old U.S. destroyers and the U.S. got leases on British naval bases.
 * 17) U.S. would be the "Arsenal for Democracy and give weapons to the Allies and they could pay later.
 * 18) The U.S. would give supplies to Britain and they would fight the Axis.
 * 19) Freedom of speech, or worship, from fear, from want
 * 20) Basic statement of war aims and common principles.
 * 21) Winston Churchill
 * 22) It ensured that the U.S. military would take a beating somewhere at some point.

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