WorksheetsWW2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the nickname given to women who worked in jobs that only men had held before?
a)
War Women
b)
Transformers
c)
Rosie the Riveter
d)
Handy Women
2.
What does mobilized mean?
a)
to get ready to fight
b)
To talk on the phone
c)
to declare war
d)
to gather soldiers
3.
How did the United Stated help the military prepare for war?
a)
exercised
b)
trained
c)
practiced shooting
d)
made war supplies
4.
Who were forced to leave their homes and move to internment camps?
a)
African Americans
b)
Native Americans
c)
Japanese Americans
d)
Jews
5.
Was the United States prepared for a big war?
a)
Yes
b)
No
c)
A little bit
6.
To limit the buying of goods is to
a)
spare
b)
ration
c)
barter
d)
discount
7.
What was the name given to a group of African American pilots that flew successful missions over Italy?
a)
The Great Airmen
b)
Tuskegee Airmen
c)
Airmen of America
d)
They did not have a name.
8.
Why was D-Day important?
a)
Germany surrendered
b)
The Allied powers were unsuccessful
c)
Adolf Hitler passed away
d)
Nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers invaded northern France
9.
In May 1945 when Soviet soldiers forced Germany to surrender is called _____?
a)
V-E Day
b)
Independence Day
c)
Victory Day
d)
D-Day
10.
The two different strategies the Allies used to defeat Japan, were
a)
island skipping and code talkers
b)
island capturing and decoding
c)
spies and island to island
d)
island hoppers and code markers
11.
What was one of the islands Japan capture while island hopping?
a)
Iwo Jima
b)
Hawaii
c)
Pacific
d)
Germany
12.
What president decided to use the atomic bombs?
a)
Harry Truman
b)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
Thomas Jefferson
13.
What was Emperor Hirohito's response to the Allied bombing Japan?
a)
He became angry
b)
He fled Japan
c)
He bombed America
d)
He surrendered
14.
What were the names of the two cities that were destroyed by the atomic bombs?
a)
Pearl Harbor and Hawaii
b)
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
c)
France and Italy
d)
Washington D.C and New York City
15.
August 14, 1945, when Japan surrender is it known as _____.
a)
D-Day
b)
V-J Day
c)
Independence Day
d)
V-E Day
16.
Who did Adolf Hitler blame for Germany's problems?
a)
Jews
b)
Americans
c)
African Americans
d)
Women and children
17.
A camp that Jewish people were sent to
a)
internment camps
b)
Jewish camps
c)
concentration camps
d)
war camps
18.
The mass murder of about 12 million people, including six million Jews, died or were killed in concentration camps was called ________.
a)
The Holocaust
b)
World War 2
c)
World War 1
d)
D Day
19.
What was the Cold War?
a)
a war about the freeing of slaves
b)
a war fought with guns
c)
a war between china and japan
d)
a war of words and ideas
20.
In what war did the United States enter to stop the spread of communism?
a)
World War 1
b)
World War 2
c)
Korean War
d)
Spanish-American War
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