WWII History Assessment 2

The Nazis practiced genocide toward Jews, Gypsies, and other “undesirable” peoples in Europe. What does the term “genocide” mean?

• A. Acting out of anti-Semetic beliefs.
• B. Deliberate extermination of a specific group of people.
• C. Terrorizing of the citizens of a nation by a government.
• D. Killing of people for the express purpose of creating terror.

What is Anti-semitism?

• A. Opposition and discrimination that is targeted against Jews
• B. Opposition and discrimination that is targeted against Japanese Americans
• C. Opposition and discrimination that is targeted against Germans
• D. Opposition and discrimination that is targeted against Italian Americans

Which statement is correct about the progression the Nazi Germans used to persecute and annihilate the Jews?

• A. It was quick - almost immediately Jewish people were sent to concentration camps.
• B. It was a gradual process - that started with laws and restrictions on Jewish people
• C. There was a slow progression - taking over 40 years before Jewish people were targeted
• D. It was rapid - Jewish people were put to death almost immediately after Hitler gained power.

What American government program is illustrated on the poster?

• A. Deathcamps
• B. Resource conservation
• C. Military draft
• D. Internment camps

When Japanese Americans had to report to the camps what did most of the families have to do?

• A. Sell or store all of their belongings because they could only take what they could carry in a suitcase
• B. Find a neighbor or family member to leave their children with
• C. Give all of their money and property to the US government
• D. Enlist in the US Army

What event caused Roosevelt to sign Executive Order 9066?

• A. Germany invading Poland
• B. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
• C. Germany bombed London
• D. Japan invaded China

How did the Allied forces plan to regain control of Europe?

• Using a Blitzkrieg strategy in the capital of Germany

• Invading through Africa and into Italy

• Attacking Germany through the Soviet Union

• Start a Blockade to limit supplies

Why did the Nazi army fall so quickly after the invasion in Normandy?

• Hitler was killed in the invasion
• Hitler and other leaders of the Nazi's abandoned the war errort
• The Nazi's were forced to fight a two-front war in Europe
• The American army cut off the supply line to the Nazi party

9. Operation Overlord, know as D-Day, was the Allies' attack on ________ to begin to take back_______

• German beaches , Asia

• English beaches, Europe

• French beaches, Europe

• Italian beaches, Africa

At the Yalta Accords (treaty), Allied Nations agreed to which TWO ideas ..

• to divide Germany into four parts
• a plan the invasion of Japan
• to create the United Nations
• to punish Italy for their role in the war