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Which groups were engaged in a civil war in China beginning in 1927?
Communists and Nationalists
What is the name of the military defense agreement signed by Germany, Japan, and Italy in 1940?
Tripartite Pact
What does Manchukuo refer to?
the puppet state established by Japan in Manchuria, China
Which was the mass killing of Chinese citizens by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1937?
Nanking Massacre
Who were the two warring parties in the Spanish Civil War?
Fascist Nationalists, who wanted conservative authoritarian rule, and left-leaning Republicans, who wanted liberal democratic rule
Which is a key aspect of fascism?
intense Nationalism
Which identifies the term used for the German air force?
Luftwaffe
The unified armed forces of Germany were known as the _[blank]_.
Wehrmacht
Adolf Hitler adopted which philosophy as the core reason to conquer other lands?
lebensraum
The Pact of Steel refers to the military and political alliance between Germany and _[blank]_.
Italy
What was the US policy of not intervening in world conflicts and avoiding foreign alliances in the 1920s-1930s?
isolationism
Which event forced the United States to end its policy of isolationism during WWII?
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Who were the major leaders of the Axis powers?
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Hideki Tojo
Who were the major leaders of the Allied powers?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin
Which conflict served as a testing ground for Nazi weapons during the 1930s?
Spanish Civil War