WorksheetsCh. 11 Benchmark
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Two years after Hitler's invasion of ____, Britain, and France declared war on Germany.
a)
Poland
b)
Yugoslavia
c)
Austria
d)
Slovakia
2.
Great Britain's policy of Appeasement toward Germany was based on?
a)
Weak demands of a Treaty
b)
Efforts to maintain peace and stability
c)
Contract Engagement
d)
Policy of aggression
3.
Why did Truman use the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
a)
As a front to invading Japan with ground troops
b)
To prepare to invade Russia
c)
To avoid continued heavy casualties in the Pacific, and end the war
d)
To get Germany to surrender
4.
After France fell, how did Hitler plan to defeat the British?
a)
Full and total invasion
b)
Attack by German air force on British ports, cities, bases, and factories
c)
Using Soviet tanks to distract British
d)
Establishing a secret treaty w/Ireland
5.
What country suffered the most casualties in WWII?
a)
Russia/USSR
b)
Poland
c)
Yugoslavia
d)
Germany
6.
What happened to Hitler?
a)
He was killed by a U.S. soldier
b)
He escaped to Argentina
c)
He came to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip
d)
He killed himself
7.
Which are concentration camps?
a)
Switzerland, Austria, Belguim
b)
Balkans, Czech, Estonia
c)
Musen, Dreblin, Erichton
d)
Dachau, Treblinka, Auschwitz
8.
A move made by Hitler prior to WWII
a)
Putting troops in Canada
b)
Sending Jews to Switzerland
c)
Breaking up Austria and Germany
d)
Demanding the Sudetenland
9.
Axis Powers WWII
a)
Ukraine, Germany, Britain
b)
Britain, France, Soviet UnionItaly, Germany, Japan
c)
Britain, France, Soviet Union
d)
Japan, China, Germany
10.
Rape of Nanking (Nanjing)
a)
Japanese conquest of China 1937; rape, torture, and kill civilians
b)
When China took control over Japan
c)
Japanese civil war
d)
Violence over the role of women in Japan
11.
Hitler's Blitzkrieg
a)
Exclusive air warfare
b)
form of attack using tank divisions supported by air attack, Lightning War
c)
constant combat to wear out an enemy
d)
A song written by the Ramones about Hitler
12.
Battle of Stalingrad
a)
Germany took over the Western Front
b)
Germany withdrew to the Soviet Union
c)
A great victory for Germany on the Eastern Front
d)
Germany forced to surrender, pushed back east, one of the bloodiest battles in human history
13.
The Allies WWII
a)
U.S., Britain, France, Soviet Union
b)
Italy, Germany, Japan
c)
China, Germany, Soviet Union
d)
France, Japan, U.S.
14.
What allied leader was in charge of military forces in Europe?
a)
Douglass MacArthur
b)
Bernard Montgomery
c)
Dwight Eisenhower
d)
General Patton
15.
U.S. isolationism was ended when?
a)
German Invasion of Poland
b)
Attack on Pearl Harbor
c)
Battle of Iwo Jima
d)
Sinking of the USS Maine
16.
The Holocaust
a)
Approximately half million killed
b)
Hitler was aware of the Final Plan; extermination
c)
Strengthened the German army with slave labor
d)
The greatest number of Jews were killed in Spain
17.
War Conferences 1941-1945
a)
Created a united Germany
b)
Established Russian superiority
c)
Established the United Nations, freely elected govts. in Europe
d)
Created the realignment of Italy and reparations for Germany
18.
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
a)
Hitler wanted to gain Stalin as an ally
b)
Hitler wanted to avoid a two front war
c)
To secure Siberia
d)
In pursuit of a route to Japan
19.
Kristallnacht
a)
The German ghettos for Jews
b)
Word for glass in German
c)
Destructive Nazi rampage against the Jews
d)
Set of racial laws against the Jews
20.
Turning point of WWII in the Pacific
a)
Battle of Midway
b)
Iwo Jima
c)
Battle of the Bulge
d)
Stalingrad
21.
Nuremberg laws
a)
Legally established the concentration camps
b)
Written law of the Final Solution
c)
Jewish exclusion from German citizenship, no Jewish/German marraiges
d)
Official ban of all Jewish books, and Jewish religion
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