World War II Quiz

What was the role of the War Production Board during World War II?

• Transforming the nation's factories to create military supplies

• Limit the amount you can buy in a store

• Find Hitler and defeat the Nazis

• Invade Japan and win the war

Why was the Battle of Midway significant?

• Japan destroyed the US navy

• US destroyed several aircraft carriers that ended Japanese expansion

• Japanese expansion was sped up because of the German Navy

• US surrended several aircraft carriers to Japan

What caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany?

• Germany invaded France

• Germany invaded Poland

• Germany invaded Italy

• Germany invaded the Balkins

What led to Japan's surrender at the end of the Pacific Campaign?

• The Battle of Stalingrad

• The Kamikazi fights in the Pacific

• The dropping of the atomic bombs

• The Battle of the Buldge

What happened to many Japanese Americans on the Pacific coast during the war?

• They were forced to internment camps

• They were forced to work in factories

• They were forced to move to the East Coast

• They were forced to give up their businesses

Why did President Truman drop the atomic bomb on Japan?

• To save American lives from a costly invasion of Japan

• To end the war quickly

• To force Japan to surrender unconditionally

• All of the choices

Anti-Semitism is

• Prejudice against the Jews

• Germany's mass murder of Jews and other groups in Europe.

• Victory over discrimination and dictators

• Capturing islands in the Pacific

Stalingrad was a turning point of the war because

• Germans stopped retreating and started advancing

• Germans stopped fighting in Poland and started fighting in Stalingrad

• Germans stopped advancing and started retreating

What was the goal of the government's Manhattan Project?

• Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

• Germany's mass murder of Jews and other groups in Europe

• Capturing less well defended islands to set up bases

• Developing the atomic bomb

What was the Holocaust?

• Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

• Germany's mass murder of Jews and other groups in Europe

• Capturing less well defended islands to set up bases

• Developing the atomic bomb