World History - World War II

At the beginning of World War II, Germany signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union.

• True

• False

The Atlantic Charter was an agreement between Great Britain and the Soviet Union that all countries had the right to make their own governments.

• True

• False

Warfare using fast-moving planes and tanks followed by mass infantry to overwhelm an enemy is called ____________ or "lightning war."

• the final solution

• mass effect

• blitzkrieg

• lebensraum

The British victory in the Battle of Britain cause Hitler to stop the planned invasion of the British Isles.

• True

• False

Japan's greatest military strategist was Isoroku Yamamoto.

• True

• False

Early a Japanese victories in the Pacific saw them conquering which territories?

• The Philippines

• Singapore

• Burma

• All of the above

Did the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor suceed in keeping the United States out of World War II?

• Yes

• No

The Battle of Midway was the turning point in the War in the Pacific because

• the Japanese defeated the Unites States.

• the US sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers, severely crippling Japan's naval power.

• The US forced Japan out of the war.

• the US lost the island of Midway allowing the Japanese to retain power in the Pacific.

The Allied campaign to re-take the Pacific territories from Japan was called

• Island hopping

• Base jumping

• blitkrieg

• naval warfare

The Holocaust was the term given to the mass extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany.

• True

• False