In September 1931 Japanese officers blew up a railway they guarded and used it as grounds to seize a whole region of China and set up a puppet state there. Which region was it?

Which country did Mussolini's Italy invade in October 1935, prompting the League of Nations to vote sanctions that never stopped the conquest?

In March 1936 Hitler sent troops into the demilitarized zone along Germany's western border, breaking the Treaty of Versailles, and Britain and France did nothing. Which zone was it?

Which country did German forces invade on September 1, 1939, bringing British and French declarations of war two days later?

German troops marched into and occupied a neighboring country in March 1939, months after taking its border regions at Munich. Which country was it?

Japanese forces moved into which territory in July 1941, after which the United States froze Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments to Japan?

From 1936 Germany and Italy sent aircraft, pilots and troops to help General Franco's Nationalists defeat a republican government, and German bombers destroyed the town of Guernica in April 1937. Which conflict was this?

On September 30, 1938 Britain, France, Germany and Italy signed a settlement handing Czechoslovakia's German-speaking border region to Germany. No Czechoslovak representative was allowed to take part. Which agreement was it?

In August 1939 two governments that had spent years denouncing each other agreed not to attack one another, and secretly agreed to divide eastern Europe between them. Which agreement was it?

On September 27, 1940 Germany, Italy and Japan signed a treaty in Berlin promising to assist one another if any of them were attacked by a power not already fighting in the war. Which agreement was it?

Which leader's Blackshirts marched on Rome in October 1922, after which the king appointed him prime minister and he built a one-party fascist state?

In March 1933, weeks after Hitler became chancellor, the German parliament passed a law allowing his cabinet to issue laws on its own, without the legislature. What was that law called?

A clash between Japanese and Chinese troops at a bridge outside Beijing in July 1937 grew within weeks into full-scale war between the two countries. What is that clash called?

On the night of November 9-10, 1938 Nazi organizations across Germany and Austria burned synagogues, smashed Jewish-owned shops and arrested tens of thousands of Jewish men. What is that night called?

Once the president found that a war existed abroad, what did the Neutrality Act of 1935 require him to do?

The Neutrality Act of 1936 renewed the arms embargo and added one new prohibition. What else did it forbid Americans to do?

The Neutrality Act of 1937 let Americans sell nonmilitary goods to nations at war only on "cash and carry" terms. What did that require of the buyer?

Two months after war broke out in Europe, Congress revised the neutrality law in November 1939. What was the main change?

In September 1940 Roosevelt transferred fifty aging American destroyers to Britain. What did the United States get in exchange?

The Selective Training and Service Act, signed in September 1940, required men aged 21 to 35 to register for military service. What made it unprecedented?

The Lend-Lease Act of March 1941 let the president "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend" war supplies to any country whose defense he judged vital to the United States. What did it do away with?

In August 1941 Roosevelt and Churchill met aboard warships off Newfoundland and issued a joint statement of principles. What did that statement do?

In Chicago on October 5, 1937 Roosevelt said "the epidemic of world lawlessness is spreading" and that when disease spreads, a community "joins in a quarantine of the patients." What was he proposing?

In a radio address on December 29, 1940 Roosevelt told the country, "We must be the great arsenal of democracy." What role was he assigning the United States?

In his message to Congress on January 6, 1941 Roosevelt described a world founded on four freedoms: speech, worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. What did he ask Congress for in that same message?

Returning to London from a conference with Hitler on September 30, 1938, Neville Chamberlain told a crowd, "I believe it is peace for our time." What was he claiming?

The America First Committee, founded in September 1940, held that the United States could not be defeated if it built an impregnable defense at home, and that aid to Britain drained that defense. What did it press Congress to do?

Place these three German moves in the order they happened.

Put these three steps of German expansion in the order Germany took them.

Place these three events in the order they happened.