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WorksheetsWWII
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe.
a)
George Patton
b)
Dwight Eisenhower
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
Douglas MacArthur
2.
Commander of Allied forces in the Pacific.
a)
George Patton
b)
Dwight Eisenhower
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
Douglas MacArthur
3.
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII.
a)
Franklin Roosevelt
b)
Dwight Eisenhower
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
Douglas MacArthur
4.
Joseph Stalin was the leader of?
a)
Great Britain
b)
France
c)
Italy
d)
Soviet Union
5.
Benito Mussolini was the leader of?
a)
Great Britain
b)
France
c)
Italy
d)
Soviet Union
6.
Turning point of the war in Europe.
a)
Midway
b)
Poland
c)
Normandy
d)
Pearl Harbor
7.
Turning point of the war in the Pacific.
a)
Iwo Jima
b)
Pearl Harbor
c)
Midway
d)
Normandy
8.
a)
Pearl Harbor
b)
Iwo Jima
c)
D-Day
d)
Okinawa
9.
Invasion of France.
a)
Normandy
b)
Stalingrad
c)
Battle of Britain
d)
Poland
10.
Battle where all but about 200 of their 22,000 soldiers Japanese were killed on this 5 mile long island.
a)
Iwo Jima
b)
Stalingrad
c)
Okinawa
d)
Midway
11.
150,000 Allied troops invaded Europe in June, 1944.
a)
D-Day
b)
Stalingrad
c)
Iwo Jima
d)
Pearl Harbor
12.
Policy of giving in to demands in hopes to keep peace
a)
Lend Lease
b)
Appeasement
c)
America First
d)
Japanese Internment
13.
Strategy to defeat the Japanese
a)
Island Hopping
b)
D-Day invasion
c)
Internment
d)
Barbarossa
14.
1945 Pacific Battle, 400 miles from Japan, over 100,00 Japanese soldiers, 100,00 island civilians and 12,000 Americans died.
a)
Iwo Jima
b)
Okinawa
c)
Philippines
d)
Midway
15.
This country was blamed for World War I and forced to pay huge war reparations to the Allies.
a)
France
b)
Great Britain
c)
Germany
d)
United States
16.
Who said this: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
a)
Franklin Roosevelt
b)
Winston Churchill
c)
Charles Lindbergh
d)
Joseph Stalin
17.
Hitler was appeased at the Munich Conference with a portion of this country called the Sudetenland.
a)
Germany
b)
Czechoslovakia
c)
Soviet Union
d)
Great Britain
18.
WWII was fought from:
a)
1941-1947
b)
1939-1941
c)
1939-1945
d)
1933-1941
19.
The invasion of _________ by Germany sparked the official beginning of World War II.
a)
Poland
b)
Belgium
c)
France
d)
Soviet Union
20.
Beginning in September 1942, which battle ended Germany’s eastward expansion in the Soviet Union in February 1943?
a)
The Battle of Midway
b)
The Battle of Berlin
c)
The Battle of Stalingrad
d)
The Battle of the Bulge
21.
On June 6, 1944 General Eisenhower directed the largest combined land-sea-air invasion in history known as __________.
a)
V-E Day
b)
Battle of Stalingrad
c)
Battle of the Bulge
d)
D-Day
22.
Operation Overlord enabled the Allied forces to
a)
establish a base from which they swept the Germans out of France.
b)
increase their bombing raids in Germany.
c)
wage a fierce propaganda campaign warning that the troops would hit the beaches at Normandy.
d)
capture Stalingrad.
23.
Blitzkrieg was a German military tactic that used their air force and tanks to quickly conquer territories.
a)
True
b)
False
24.
What country signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union in 1939?
a)
Germany
b)
Spain
c)
Great Britain
d)
The United States
25.
One similarity between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini is that both
a)
supported communism
b)
led Fascist governments
c)
remained in power after WWII
d)
rejected militarism
26.
All of the following were part of the Axis Powers EXCEPT:
a)
Japan
b)
Germany
c)
Italy
d)
Soviet Union
27.
During the _________, the Nazis burned synagogues, broke into Jewish homes, destroyed Jewish businesses, arrested Jewish people, and killed some of the Jewish people.
a)
Radar
b)
Inflation
c)
Kristallnacht
d)
Blitzkrieg
28.
Which of the following countries WAS NOT taken over by a dictator after the depression of the 1930's?
a)
Japan
b)
Germany
c)
Italy
d)
France
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