037 QUIZZIZ World War 2 Quiz 2

Why did the United States seize Pacific islands during World War 2?

• to gain access to natural resource

• to honor commitments to military alliances

• to protect shipping routes for neutral countries

• establish military bases for use in further attacks

Who liberated the concentration camps of the Holocaust?

• Allied forces led by Hitler

• Allied forces led by Eisenhower

• British forces led by Churchill

• Allied forces led by MacArthur

Why did the American government want Americans to plant Victory Gardens?

• create agricultural projects to relieve an economic depression

• encouraging a healthy diet for future soldiers

• lowering the cost of living by creating a surplus of food

• supporting the war effort by reducing demand for commercially grown food

What action prompted the US to enter the World War 2?

• German blitzkrieg tactics

• Japan military actions in Indochina

• German submarine attacks on US merchant ships

• Japan attacking an American military base

What did the Navajo Code Talkers do during the war?

• pilots that defended China

• transmitted secret military information

• African American military aviators

• invaded Normandy with tanks

Which of the following was NOT a dictator?

• Winston Churchill

• Hideki Tojo

• Adolf Hitler

• Benito Mussolini

Which commander believed the defeat of Japan would come from taking over one Pacific Ocean island at a time?

• Eisenhower

• MacArthur

• Bradley

• Nimitz

Operation Overload

• gain French ports for Allied troops to use in the battle against Germany

• recapture France and increase the size of the Allied forces through the addition of French troops

• open a second war front so German forces would be split

• demonstrate the power of the Allied air force and convince Germany to surrender unconditionally

On September 1, 1939, World War II began when...

• Italy invaded North Africa

• Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

• Russia signed a Non agression pact with Germany

• Germany invaded Poland

The Nazis did not like the Treaty of Versailles because

• Germany was not allowed entry to the League of Nations

• the United States was given political control of the German government and economy

• Germany was forced to accept full blame for World War I and pay war reparations

• Great Britain was given German territory and rights to German natural resources