WorksheetsWW II Basics
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was the leader of Great Britain for the majority of WW II in Europe?
a)
Eisenhower
b)
Churchill
c)
Chamberlain
2.
Who was known as the "angel of death"...
a)
Hitler
b)
Mengele
c)
Stalin
d)
Chairman Mao
3.
What year and location do most historians state as the start of WW II in Europe?
a)
1935; Czechoslovakia
b)
1941; U.S.
c)
1942; Japan
d)
1939; Poland
4.
Which U.S. President ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan?
a)
Eisenhower
b)
FDR
c)
Truman
d)
Hoover
5.
What was the name given to the camps that FDR ordered the Japanese-American citizens into as a means to protect our nation from a possible invasion by Japan?
a)
concentration camps
b)
Gulags
c)
internment camps
d)
labor camps
6.
What country was invaded by the Allies on June 6, 1944?
a)
Great Britain
b)
Germany
c)
USSR
d)
France
7.
Which set of countries made the Allies?
a)
Great Britain, France, U.S., Italy
b)
Germany, USSR, Japan, France
c)
Germany, Japan, Italy
d)
U.S., Great Britain, France, USSR
8.
Which set of countries made up the Axis Powers?
a)
Italy, Japan, France, Germany
b)
Great Britain, France, U.S., USSR
c)
Japan, Germany, Italy
d)
France, Great Britain, U.S., Canada
9.
Which of the following countries liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp?
a)
Poland
b)
USSR aka: Soviet Union
c)
Great Brtiain
d)
United States
10.
With whom did Hitler sign a "non-aggression" pact in 1939?
a)
Winston Churchill
b)
FDR
c)
Josef Stalin
11.
Who provided information that helped initiate the American atomic bomb project?
a)
Neville Chamberlain
b)
Albert Einstein
c)
Harry S. Truman
12.
Which famous American general stated "I Shall Return" as he retreated from the Philippines at the beginning of the Pacific conflict during WW II?
a)
George S. Patton
b)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
c)
Douglas MacArthur
13.
Which of the following cities was the location of the dropping of the first atomic bomb?
a)
Tokyo
b)
Hiroshima
c)
Nagasaki
14.
Which of the following countries experienced the MOST casualties of any of the combatants?
a)
Japan
b)
Germany
c)
USSR
15.
What physicist was responsible for leading the Manhattan Project?
a)
Josef Mengele
b)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
c)
Henry Stimson
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