Level 10 Events of World War II

•“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked. . . . “—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, address to Congress, December 8, 1941

Which statement correctly summarizes the reason for this speech?

• Axis violations of international law caused the United States to hold criminal trials.

• German expansion in Western Europe caused the United States to assist France.

• Japanese aggression in the Pacific caused the United States to declare war.

• Allied defeats on the battlefield caused the United States to develop new weapons

Which event prompted the United States to enter World War II?

• The German annexation of Austria

• The Soviet occupation of Germany

• The landing of Allied soldiers on Normandy Beach

• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

What occurred on June 6, 1944, in which over 150,000 Allied soldiers invaded Normandy, France? It is officially called Operation Overlord.

• Operation Barbarossa

• D-Day

• Battle of Britain

• Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

Which phrase best defines the Holocaust?

• The U.S. plan to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps

• The Allied plan to liberate concentration camps in Eastern Europe

• The Nazi campaign to use genocide to eliminate European Jews

• The Japanese military strategy to destroy U.S. aircraft carriers

Which of the following would best complete the graphic organizer below?

• A. D-Day, the Allied landing in Normandy

• B. Operation Barbarossa

• C. V-E Day, Germany surrenders

• D. Attack on Pearl Harbor

What event led to the United Kingdom and France to declare war on Germany?

• Germany firebombing Dresden

• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• The German occupation of Northern France

• Germany invading Poland

The pictures represent the U.S. and British belief during WWII that:

• Only men can help in fighting the war

• The role of a woman is to be in the home

• The war was going very well for Germany

• Women could play a role in the war effort

The books pictured above are first-hand accounts of the Jewish experience during WWII and focus on the

• The invasion of Poland

• The Holocaust

• The attack on Pearl Harbor

• The firebombing of Dresden

Concentration camps and gas chambers during The Holocaust was part of Hitler’s

• Marshall Plan

• Final Solution

• New Deal

• Treat of Paris

The location indicated on the map represents the Japanese surprise attack on

• Pearl Harbor

• Midway

• Iwa Jima

• Normandy