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WWII Vocab

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Giving Hitler what he wanted in hopes he would stop.

a)

blitzkrieg

b)

appeasement

c)

isolationism

d)

cooperation

2.

Limits on food, tires, metals, etc during WWII.

a)

rationing

b)

limitations

c)

coupons

d)

sacrifices

3.
not wanting to get into the problems of other countries
a)
isolationism
b)
Adolf Hitler
c)
kamikaze
d)
ghettos
4.
Prime Minister of Great Britain
a)
Winston Churchill
b)
Emperor Hirohito
c)
Benito Mussolini
d)
isolationism
5.
President of U.S. at the beginning of WWII
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
liberate
c)
Franklin Roosevelt
d)
atomic bomb
6.
France, Poland, United Kingdom
a)
liberate
b)
Allied Powers
c)
Axis Powers
d)
atomic bomb
7.
Germany, Japan, Italy
a)
Axis Powers
b)
kamikaze
c)
atomic bomb
d)
Allied Powers
8.
powerful nuclear weapon that can destroy a whole city
a)
atomic bomb
b)
ghettos
c)
kamikaze
d)
Axis Powers
9.

First city on which the US dropped the atomic bomb.

a)

Dresden

b)

Nagasaki

c)

Hiroshima

d)

Stalingrad

10.

Allied amphibious invasion of German occupied France in 1944.

a)

D Day

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Midway

d)

Dunkirk

11.

The day that Germany surrendered.

a)

VJ Day

b)

VE Day

c)

D Day

d)

Celebration Day

12.

Which group of Americans were forced in to relocation or internment camps in WWII?

a)

Japanese

b)

Italian

c)

German

d)

draft dodgers

13.

Who were known as the Big Three?

a)

Truman, Eisenhower, and Bradley

b)

Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt

c)

Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo

d)

Fat Man, Little Boy, and Manhattan

14.

Germany, Italy, Japan and their allies in WWII were known as the

a)

Allies

b)

Tripartite Pact

c)

Axis

d)

Triple Entente

15.

The Nazi Party stands for the Nationalist Socialist German _____ Party.

a)

Empire

b)

Superior

c)

Fascist

d)

Workers

16.

The effort to of the US to get closer to the Japanese mainland is called

a)

appeasement

b)

aggression

c)

expansion

d)

island hopping

17.

The raising of this flag in a famous battle occurred at

a)

Okinawa

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

Midway Island

d)

Iwo Jima

18.
President of U.S. at the end of WWII
a)
Harry Truman
b)
Axis Powers
c)
Aryan supremacy
d)
kamikaze
19.

Rosie the Riveter and similar propaganda campaigns encouraged women to support the war by

a)

growing victory gardens

b)

making sacrifices in the home and doing without

c)

working in factories

d)

writing letters to soldiers

20.

Pearl Harbor was a target of the Japanese due to the US position on

a)

German expansion in Europe

b)

Japanese expansion in Asia

c)

Japanese withdrawal from the League of Nations

d)

the creation of the Axis alliance