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WorksheetsWWII-The Pacific Theater
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How did WWI lead to WWII?
a)
Germany did not pay debt so they were invaded
b)
League of Nations declared war on Germany
c)
War debt caused political and economical instability in Europe
d)
Great Britain took blame for WWI
2.
What happened December 7th 1941?
a)
Attack on Pearl Harbor
b)
Sinking of the Titanic
c)
WWI
d)
Battle of Britain
3.
Japanese Americans were sent where after Pearl Harbor?
a)
Ellis Island
b)
They stayed at their farms
c)
Internment camps
d)
Japan
4.
How did the US get Japan to Surrender?
a)
Dropping 1 atomic bomb
b)
Dropping 2 atomic bombs
c)
fighting on land
d)
Conditional Surrender
5.
Who was Gen D. MacArthur?
a)
U.S. General in pacific, who got a slow start
b)
Journalist who was bias towards the U.S.
c)
The Vice President
d)
Secretary of War
6.
In 1942 what was the Bataan Death March?
a)
March to the US Ships to take surrendered soldiers home
b)
March to prison camps in the Philippines
c)
Death march through Germany
d)
March through China led by Bataan
7.
Truman asked this man to leave the Philippines and he said, "I shall return." Who was this man?
a)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
b)
Gen. D. MacArthur
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
Hirohito
8.
What was the Manhattan Project?
a)
Secret project by the US to develop tanks
b)
Secret project by the US To develop Kamikaze pilots
c)
Secret project implemented by the US to develop atomic weapons
d)
Secret project by the US to develop biological weapons
9.
Who decided to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing WWII to an end in August of 1945?
a)
Tojo
b)
Truman
c)
Stalin
d)
Churchill
10.
The day after the war ended in Japan is known as...
a)
V-E Day
b)
V-J Day
c)
Victory Day
d)
Domination Day
11.
Which of the following statements about the Code Talkers is FALSE?
a)
They were Navajo Indians.
b)
They used their language for a code since about 30 people in the world who weren't Navajo spoke it.
c)
The code was never broken.
d)
It was used primarily in Europe.
12.
A Japanese suicide pilot is a
a)
Kamikaze
b)
Edamame
c)
Sake
d)
Miso
13.
Truman decided to use the atomic bomb against Japan because
a)
He was unaware of the amount of destruction and suffering the bomb would cause
b)
He hoped to avoid an invasion that would result in massive Allied casualties and firebombing had not yet forced Japan to surrender
c)
He wanted to punish Japanese civilians for refusing to surrender
d)
He hoped to force Hitler to surrender alive
14.
The Battle of Coral Sea was significant because ______________.
a)
It was the first time Allied forces had stopped a Japanese advance
b)
It represented the first time that Allied naval strength exceeded Japanese naval strength
c)
It was the first time that the Allies fought a land, sea, and air battle
d)
It represented the first major Allied defeat in the Pacific
15.
Government control of what is printed, read, aired on TV and radio is called
a)
Rationing
b)
Segregation
c)
Censorship
d)
Propaganda
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