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WWII #4: Fighting WWII European Theater

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The turning point on the Eastern Front.
a)
Midway
b)
Invasion of Sicily
c)
El Alamein
d)
Stalingrad
2.
___ led to the liberation of Rome.
a)
Stalingrad
b)
Invasion of Normandy
c)
Midway
d)
Invasion of Sicily
3.
The invasion of Normandy is also known as ___.
a)
Battle of the Bulge
b)
Midway
c)
V-E Day
d)
D-Day
4.
This was Germany's last major attempt to stop the Allies' progress in the West.
a)
Invasion of Normandy
b)
El Alamein
c)
Kursk
d)
Battle of the Bulge
5.
The successful Allied invasion of France was known as
a)
Battle of Midway
b)
Battle of the Bulge
c)
D-Day
d)
Battle of El Alamein 
6.
The end of WW2 in Europe was celebrated as...
a)
V-E Day
b)
V-J Day
c)
Memorial Day
d)
Armistice Day
7.
In Dec 1944, German forces counterattack allied lines creating a "bulge" in these front lines. 
a)
D-Day
b)
Battle of the Bulge
c)
Battle for Berlin
d)
Battle of the Falkland Gap
8.
Hitler was responsible for the murder of more than six million Jews between 1933 and 1945.  This terrible period of history is known as the ...
a)
Holocaust
b)
Death Valley
c)
attack on Pearl Harbor
d)
Iwo Jima
9.
Germany had invaded and taken over France.  The U.S. and Allied troops defeated Germany and ran them out of France.  The day Germany surrendered to the Allies is known as ________.  People sang and danced in the streets all over Europe and the United States.
a)
VJ Day
b)
D-Day
c)
VE Day
d)
the Holocaust
10.
On June 6, 1944, 60,000 American and Allied troops gathered in southern England, crossed the English Channel, arrived on the beaches of Normandy, France and surprised the Germans.  This operation was known as...
a)
VE Day
b)
D-Day
c)
 VJ Day
d)
the Holocaust
11.
Hitler's plan to systematically kill are Jews was called ____ .
a)
Night of Broken Glass
b)
Kristallnacht
c)
The Final Solution
d)
Holocaust
12.
What was the name of the largest death camp located in Poland?
a)
Auschwitz
b)
Bergen-Belsen
c)
Belzec
d)
Treblinka