World War 2 Quiz

Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany after forming the ___________ Party

• Nazi

• Gestapo

• Bolshevik

• Whig

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini both advocated a government system called _________________.

• Commmunism

• Democracy

• Fascism

• Anarchism

The United States joined the war after the Japanese attacked the Hawaiian naval base of ___________________.

• San Francisco

• Pearl Harbor

• Midway

• Dutch Harbor

Nazi Germany commenced with a genocide known as the ________________ or the Final Solution designed to exterminate all Jewish people from Europe.

• Holodomor

• Blitzkrieg

• Vernichtungsschlacht

• Holocaust

The German army used a strategy called ________________, or "lightning war," to quickly invade Poland using a combination of fast moving bombers, tanks, and infantry.

• Kesselschlacht

• Blitzkrieg

• Bewegungskrieg

• Lightning-Warren-Gurken

The American Navy won a decisive victory against the Japanese navy in 1942 at the Battle of ______________.

• Pearl Harbor

• Denmark Strait

• Coral Sea

• Midway

The United States used a strategy called ______________ in the Pacific, moving from island to island and taking them from the Japanese occupiers.

• Blitzkrieg

• Point to point

• Island hopping

• Search and destroy

The German army suffered a crushing defeat after being surrounded and cut off in the Battle of ________________.

• Stalingrad

• Moscow

• Leningrad

• Kursk

The Yalta Conference was a meeting between the Allied leaders, ________________________, to discuss the future of Europe after the war was over.

• Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo

• Kaiser Wilhelm, Woodrow Wilson, and King George V

• Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin

• Neville Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier, and Edvard Benes

World War 2 came to an end after the fall of Berlin and the atomic bombings of __________________ in Japan.

• Tokyo and Kyoto

• Nagasaki and Hiroshima

• Dresden and Leipzieg

• London and Birmingham