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WorksheetsChap19: A World in Flames
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the name of the man who became dictator in Italy?
a)
Benito Mussolini
b)
Joseph Stalin
c)
Adolf Hitler
d)
Francisco Franco
2.
Who became dictator of the Soviet Union after Lenin's death?
a)
Czar Nicholas II
b)
Joseph Stalin
c)
Benito Mussolini
d)
Francisco Franco
3.
What was the name of Hitler's autobiography?
a)
Anschluss
b)
Ich bin ein Berliner
c)
Lebensraum
d)
Mein Kampf
4.
Which race did Hitler believe was a “master race” destined to rule the world?
a)
Visigoths
b)
Germans
c)
Aryans
d)
Caucasians
5.
Who was the leader of the 1936 rebellion in Spain that quickly became a civil war?
a)
Benito Mussolini
b)
Francisco Franco
c)
King Vittorio Emmanuel
d)
Juan Carlos
6.
Which countries became known as the Axis Powers?
a)
Japan, Germany, France
b)
Britain, France, Soviet Union
c)
Germany, Italy, Japan
d)
Germany, Italy, Soviet Union
7.
"Blitzkrieg" means
a)
phony war
b)
world war
c)
lightning war
d)
guerrilla war
8.
What was the name of the German air force?
a)
Anschluss
b)
Army Air Force
c)
RAF
d)
Luftwaffe
9.
What did the night of anti-Jewish violence in Germany come to be called?
a)
Wannsee Conference
b)
Kristallnacht
c)
sitzkrieg
d)
blietzkrieg
10.
Who became prime minister of Great Britain after the fall of France?
a)
Neville Chamberlain
b)
Winston Churchill
c)
Benito Mussolini
d)
Bernard Montgomery
11.
What is the policy of giving concessions in exchange for peace called?
a)
appeasement
b)
concession
c)
aggression
d)
reconciliation
12.
The Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact contained a secret deal to divide _________ between Germany and the Soviet Union.
a)
Austria
b)
Poland
c)
Britain
d)
Czechoslovakia
13.
What was the name of the infamous extermination camp in Poland that could gas 12,000 Jews a day?
a)
Buchenwald
b)
Auschwitz
c)
Treblinka
d)
Bergen-Belsen
14.
What was the meeting held by Nazi leaders to determine the “final solution of the Jewish question” called?
a)
Berlin Meetings
b)
Munich Conference
c)
Wannsee Conference
d)
Nuremberg Conference
15.
What is the Hebrew term for Holocaust, meaning “catastrophe”?
a)
Shoah
b)
Armageddon
c)
Apocalypse
d)
Cataclysm
16.
Which group firmly opposed any American intervention or aid to the Allies?
a)
Fight for Freedom Committee
b)
America First Committee
c)
Nye Committee
d)
Defend American by Defending the Allies Committee
17.
Roosevelt sent destroyers to Britain in exchange for
a)
cash
b)
manufactured British goods
c)
U.S. bases on British-held territory
d)
a promise to pay at war's end
18.
In June 1941, Hitler invaded which country in violation of the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
a)
Poland
b)
France
c)
Britain
d)
Soviet Union
19.
What finally brought the US into World War II?
a)
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
b)
sinking of the Reuben James
c)
the Atlantic Charter
d)
Americans' horror at the persecution of people by the Nazis
20.
The Lend-Lease Act was Roosevelt's way of getting arms to Britain with Britain having to
a)
pick them up
b)
return them after the war
c)
take out loans to pay for them
d)
pay cash
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