| A | B |
| Britain | This nation won the Battle of Britain. |
| Neville Chamberlain | This British prime minister signed the Munich Pact. |
| Charles de Gaulle | After the fall of France, he set up a government in exile in Britain. |
| Battle of Britain | The result of this led Hitler to call off the invasion of Britain indefinitely. |
| blitzkrieg | This German military strategy of "lightning war" was first used in Poland. |
| Austria | In 1938, this country was Germany's first target. |
| Nonaggression pact | Prior to the invasion of Poland, this is what Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to. |
| Poland | This nation ceased to exist after it was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union. |
| Germany | This country invaded Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. |
| appeasement | By signing the Munich Pact, Britain and France agreed to take this policy toward German aggression. |
| Winston Churchill | About the Munich Pact, he said, "Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor. They will have war." |
| France | The terms of surrender forced on this nation included German occupation of the northern part of the country and the establishment of a Nazi-controlled puppet government in the southern part. |
| Hideki Tojo | After promising his emperor that he would try to maintain peace, Japanese Prime Minister ___ ordered the Japanese navy to prepare for attack on the United States. |
| Axis | Germany, Italy, and Japan were called the ___ powers. |
| draft | Congress boosted defense spending and created the first peacetime ___ in U.S. history. |
| Lend-Lease Act | The ___ passed, allowing the president to lend or lease arms and other supplies to "any country whose defense was vital to the United States." |
| the Soviet Union | Germany invaded ___ in spite of the peace treaty signed between the two nations just prior to the invasion of Poland. |
| Pearl Harbor | Japan launched a surprise attack on the naval base at ___. |
| trade embargo | Japan took over French military bases in Indochina. In response, the United States placed a(n) ___ on Japan. |
| Atlantic Charter | Churchill and Roosevelt met secretly aboard the U.S.S. Augusta. Together, they drafted the ___. |