The Great Depression & World War II Quiz

What was the Allied strategy in the Pacific known as? 

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

Where did the largest land-sea-air invasion in world history take place? 

• Hiroshima, Japan
• Normandy, France
• Nagasaki, Japan
• Berlin, Germany 

What was rationing? 

• growing a garden to help with food supplies in your backyard
• donating money to the government to help in the war effort
• a practice of limiting the amount of food or resources people could buy
• used to show support of the war effort (usually posters or movies) 

What was the Manhattan Project? 

• radio beams used to determine location of objects
• the world's first computer 
• effort by the US to build the first atomic bomb
• a complicated code machine used by German military 

What was the Holocaust? 

• a relocation camp for Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor
• a relocation camp for Muslims after the 9/11 terrorist attacks
• the widespread killing of Jews by Nazis
• the time period following WWII

What event led to the US joining WWII? 

• Germany invaded Poland. 
• Germany sent Mexico a secret telegram. 
• Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
• Germany bombed Pearl Harbor. 

The battle at Normandy is referred to as ___

• Manhattan Project

• D-Day

• VJ Day

• Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor happened on what day?

• December 7,1945

• December 25, 1945

• December 7, 1941

• December 13, 1941

Which ethnic group was sent to internment camps?

• Japanese

• Chinese

• Russians

• Germans

Which president gave the order to drop atomic bombs Japan in August, 1945?

• FDR

• Truman

• Stalin

• Churchill