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WorksheetsWorld War II
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 25mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
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
2.
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
3.
Which country did Hitler invade that triggered the all-out conflict in Europe?
a)
Spain
b)
Greece
c)
Poland
d)
Great Britain
4.
_____ is a ruler who has complete power over a country
a)
appeasers
b)
dictator
c)
aggressors
d)
isolationist
5.
I became President after FDR, and I ordered the use of the atomic bomb.
a)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
b)
Harry Truman
c)
Joseph Stalin
d)
Adolf Hitler
6.
The name given to the killing of millions of Jewish and others by the Nazis.
a)
Hiroshima
b)
Holocaust
c)
Auswitz
d)
Concentration Camps
7.
Which event caused the United States to join World War II?
a)
Hiroshima
b)
Iwo Jima
c)
Pearl Harbor
d)
V-J Day
8.
The Allied attack and landing at Normandy, France and the turning point of the war in Europe.
a)
V-E Day
b)
v-J Day
c)
Landing Day
d)
D-Day
9.
Why was rationing used during WWII?
a)
What's rationing?
b)
The US didn't ration anything.
c)
So that there were more soldiers.
d)
To make sure that the Army had the supplies needed.
10.
This poster was an icon for
a)
women factory workers during WWII
b)
housewives
c)
transgender soldiers
d)
suffragettes
11.
Which U.S. President ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan?
a)
Eisenhower
b)
FDR
c)
Truman
d)
Hoover
12.
Germany used what type of strategy to quickly overwhelm their opponents?
a)
Sitzkrieg
b)
Total War
c)
Blitzkrieg
d)
Appeasment
13.
Women began working where during World War II?
a)
home
b)
factories
c)
schools
d)
offices
14.
German dictator from 1934-1945. Referred to the Fuhrer. He is associated with Nazism, WWII, and the Holocaust.
a)
Joseph Stalin
b)
Adolf Hitler
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
Benito Mussolini
15.
His army stopped the Nazis in Moscow and Stalingrad, and eventually captured in Berlin in 1945. The estimated number of victims under his regime is about 20 million, though some believe it to be much higher.
a)
Joseph Stalin
b)
Adolph Hitler
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
Benito Mussolini
16.
The second city to suffer an attack by a nuclear weapon on August 9, 1945. A nuclear weapon has not been used as an attack since. The name of the bomb used was Fat Man. The bomb killed about 80,000 people, most instantaneously, although a lot died from the radiation sickness and other causes. Japan surrendered following this strike on VJ Day (9/2/45).
a)
Nagasaki
b)
Hiroshima
c)
Berlin
d)
Tokyo
17.
Much of the work happened at Los Alamos, New Mexico under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The researchers created bombs based on the fission of uranium-235 and plutonium-239 that were capable of an explosion equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.
a)
Manhattan Project
b)
Project Oppenheimer
c)
Los Alamos Hide away
d)
Da Bomb Digity
18.
In what year did the war in Europe begin?
a)
1935
b)
1941
c)
1942
d)
1939
19.
Payment for war damages are called
a)
reparations
b)
appeasement
c)
aggression
d)
blitzkrieg
20.
Which event involved the trial and punishment of the major war criminals of the Axis Powers?
a)
The Yalta Conference
b)
The Atlantic Charter
c)
The Nuremberg Trials
d)
The Versailles Conference
21.
Peace organization that was formed after World War II
a)
League of Nations
b)
Warsaw Pact
c)
United Nations
d)
Atlantic Charter
22.
General who lead Operation Torch and D-Day for the Allies
a)
Dwight Eisenhower
b)
A. Philip Randolph
c)
Erwin Rommel
d)
Harry Truman
23.
Strategy for capturing strategic Pacific islands
a)
Genocide
b)
"Europe First" Strategy
c)
United Nations
d)
Island Hopping
24.
Stalin
a)
Germany
b)
Italy
c)
United States
d)
Soviet Union
25.
Benito Mussolini
a)
Germany
b)
Italy
c)
United States
d)
Soviet Union
26.
Tojo
a)
Germany
b)
Japan
c)
United States
d)
Soviet Union
27.
Dwight Eisenhower
a)
Germany
b)
Japan
c)
United States
d)
Soviet Union
28.
Adolf Hitler
a)
Germany
b)
Italy
c)
United States
d)
Soviet Union
29.
Winston Churchill
a)
Germany
b)
Italy
c)
United States
d)
Great Britain
30.
Kamikaze Pilot
a)
Germany
b)
Italy
c)
United States
d)
Japan
31.
George Patton
a)
Germany
b)
Italy
c)
United States
d)
Japan
32.
The United States president at the beginning of WWII was
a)
Eisenhower
b)
Harry Truman
c)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
d)
Winston Churchill
33.
Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in...
a)
1930
b)
1931
c)
1932
d)
1933
34.
Appeasement was...
a)
Accepting the invasion of an independent country
b)
Giving countries what they want to avoid a war
c)
Trapping countries in a conflict
d)
Giving some countries land in return for food
35.
What demilitarized zone of Germany did Hitler invade violating the Treaty of Versailles? (think Euro conference)
a)
Rhineland
b)
Sudetenland
c)
Anschluss
d)
Munich
36.
What group of people was used as the scapegoats for all of Germany's problems by the Nazi party?
a)
Muslims
b)
Communists
c)
African Americans
d)
Jews
37.
What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
a)
End of WWI
b)
Dawes Plan
c)
Stock Market Crash of 1929
d)
The election of Franklin Roosevelt
38.
The European leaders practiced what policy when dealing with Hitler and his aggression in which they compromised to his demands in order to avoid war?
a)
isolation
b)
diplomacy
c)
military mobilization
d)
appeasement
39.
Lebensraum is
a)
living space desired by Stalin for a more powerful USSR
b)
living space desired by Hitler for an Aryan Germany
c)
a financial plan submitted by the League of Nations to end the Great Depression
40.
Which of these is NOT a droid?
a)
BB-8
b)
R2-D2
c)
FN-2187
d)
C3PO
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