THE WORLD WARS
PARTIl: A RISING THREAT
Directions: While watching the video,
answer each of the following questions. It is
helpful to read one question ahead so you know what to listen for.
(example completed)1. After a decade of post-World War One prosperty, the New York Stock Exchange suffers the most catastrophic crash it will ever see, losing over 14 billion dollars in Just
one day. The crash launches a heartoreaking era for America: [the
The great deor]
2. 4,000 miles away (from Germany) the American people are despcrate for hopc and
new Icadership, and in a pivotal election year, they look to a candidate who promises to pull them from the edge of collapse:_________
3. In what will become known as the night of the long
enemies_______,Hitler eliminates nearly 100 of his political.
4. By 1934. Churchil is back in the British_______in the trenches of the western front have changed him.
5. His (Mussolini s) first target is_____
a key entryway into the Middle East.
7. In 1937, the Emperor of Japan approves an dedicated soldier is chosen toll ead the troons. His name is Hideki______
8.Chamberlain believes that to stop Hitler in his tracks and save Europe from another
war. he'll have to exercise_____
9. Six months after he swore his conquest was over, Hitler marches his army past the Sudenteland borders into the heart of Czechoslovakia. And once again without resistance
strom the Allies. the country is an______
10. He may be an ocean away, but President_______ is closely
monitoring the situation in Europe, and like Churchill, he knows that Adolf Hitler isn't
someone to be ignored.
11. Hitler knows taking Poland will provoke the only man who intimidates him, a tyrant
who rules his country with an iron fist______
is one of the most violent leaders the world will ever know.
12. On September 1st, 1939 Hitler orders one million troops into Poland who fight using a
new method of warfare the world has never seen before:_______
13. Even after declaring war, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain still does absolutely
nothing to stop Hitler for______long months.
14. What Germany failed to do in the first war, Hitler accomplishes in just________weeks.
15. On September 7th, 1940__________
is the largest city in the world,
home to nine million people who have no idea what's about to hit them.
16. While Hitler continues his terror bombing, Churchill shifts his focus from the navy to
the Royal___________.
17. To protect the American territory, Roosevelt sends a division of the U.S. Army
directly to the Philippines. To command the operation, he picks a legendary general who
has proven himself on the battlefield, while also proving to be a thorn in Roosevelt's side:________.
18. The world is at war for the second time this century. Adolf Hitler has the advantage,
but in an incredible act of ego, he's betrayed his ally, ____________launching an invasion of the Soviet Union.
19. On December 7h 1941 the Japanese military launches a massive preemptive strike, sending hundreds of Japanese fighter planes armed with thousands of deadly explosives across the ocean. Their target: the entire U.S. Pacific Fleet, currently stationed at a base on the Hawaiian Islands known as_________.