WWII Quest Review

The two sides that fought in World War II were the

• Allied & Central Powers
• Allied & Axis Powers
• Central & Axis Powers
• Allied & Associated Powers

What were the two U.S. Presidents during World War II?

• Eisenhower and Truman
• FDR and Eisenhower
• Trump and Washington
• FDR and Truman

This is the name remembered for the Allied attack on France on June 6, 1944.

• Operation Dumbo Drop
• Operation Torch
• D-Day
• Omaha

What was the Allied strategy in the Pacific known as? 

• island-hopping 
• island-jumping 
• appeasement
• rationing 

Which battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

• Battle of Singapore
• Battle of the Coral Sea
• Battle of Guadalcanal
• Battle of Midway

Which two Japanese cities were destroyed by atom bombs?

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Kyoto and Tokyo
• Nagasaki and Kyoto
• Tokyo and Hiroshima

Which statement describes the Marshall Plan?

• An alliance designed to combine the forces of all democratic nations in Western Europe
• An economic plan to spend 12.5 billion dollars on reconstructing Western Europe
• A failed military plan to cripple communist influence in Western Europe
• A peace treaty with the Soviet Union that was ultimately rejected

What event prompted the Soviet Union to form the Warsaw Pact?

• the formation of NATO
• the Cuban Missile Crisis
• the Korean War
• the launch of Sputnik

V-E Day is Which Date?

• May 8, 1945
• August 14, 1945
• June 6, 1944
• December 7, 1941

Hitler's Final Solution 

• exterminate all undesireables
• make them useful citizens of Germany
• place them in ghettos to live
• experiment on Jews and others