WorksheetsWWII
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1. Which two cities in Japan were attacked with the atomic bomb?
a)
Hiroshima and Tokyo
b)
Tokyo and Nagasaki
c)
Nagoya and Kyoto
d)
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
2.
Which president made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?
a)
President Truman
b)
President Roosevelt (FDR)
c)
President Eisenhower
d)
President Hoover
3.
The turning front on the Pacific front was the:
a)
Battle of Midway
b)
Battle of the Bulge
c)
Attack on Pearl Harbor
d)
Battle of the Bulge
4.
The Nazis attempted a complete genocide of:
a)
Chinese people
b)
Jewish people
c)
Muslim people
d)
Polish people
5.
The Allied D-Day invasion of Normancy to liberate France and Europe occurred under the command of which American general?
a)
General George Patton
b)
General Douglas MacArthur
c)
General Vernon Baker
d)
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
6.
Executive Order 9066 required:
a)
All men to register immediately for the military draft
b)
All Japanese-Americans to move to internment camps
c)
The military to be immediately desegregated
d)
All African-American males to join register for the draft
7.
The Tuskegee Airmen were:
a)
Native Americans who used their language as a secret code
b)
African-Americans who served in the military as pilots
c)
Mexican-Americans who refused to enlist in any military branch and wore zoot-suits
d)
Japanese-Americans who were interned in camps during the war
8.
Americans on the home front supported the war effort through all of the following except
a)
Rationing
b)
Buying war bonds
c)
Requiring men and women to register for the draft
d)
Planting Victory Gardens
9.
On December 7, 1941:
a)
The Germans built their first concentration camp
b)
The French underground revolutionaries overthrew the Nazis
c)
The British surrendered to the Nazi blitzkrieg
d)
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
10.
The US supported certain nations by selling or renting them war materials through the:
a)
Lend-Lease Act
b)
Neutrality Acts
c)
Quarantine Act
d)
Atlantic Charter
11.
Britain and France finally declared war on Germany when Hitler invaded:
a)
Austria
b)
Poland
c)
France
d)
Czechoslovakia
12.
The United States was a member of the League of Nations.
a)
True
b)
False
13.
The Neutrality Acts prohibited Americans from traveling on ships of nations at war or from selling arms to countries at war.
a)
True
b)
False
14.
The main purpose of government ordered rationing during WWII was to
a)
increase foreign trade
b)
limit the growth of industry
c)
conserve raw materials for the war effort
d)
encourage women to enter the workforce
15.
The Manhattan Project
a)
developed the atomic bomb
b)
increase economic production of tanks
c)
defending New York against an attack
d)
was the US propaganda machine
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