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WorksheetsWW2--part 2
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 44mins
Hitler invaded this country and officially began WW2 on this date:
Poland; September 1, 1939
Czechslovakia; September 1, 1939
Poland; December 1939
France; June 6, 1944
The Japanese attacked us at this naval base on _________________ and officially brought us into war
Pearl Harbor; December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor; September 1, 1939
Normandy; June 6, 1944
Dunkirk; June 6, 1944
The Allied invasion at Normandy that liberated France and eventually Europe occurred on ____________ and is known as _____________.
June 6, 1944; D-Day
June 6, 1944; Pearl Harbor Day
December 7, 1941; Dunkirk Day
July 4, 1944; Paris Day
This battle occurred in Belgium in December 1944. The Germans pushed into Allied lines but never broke through. It was cold and brutal and was the last Nazi offensive.
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Marne
Battle of Bunker Hill
Hitler's Last Stand
FDR didn't see the end of the war because he died on ______________ of a stroke at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia.
April 12, 1945
April 30, 1945
December 7, 1941
June 6, 1944
Hitler shot himself in a Berlin bunker on ________________ so that he would not have to surrender, be tortured, or humiliated.
April 30, 1945
April 12, 1945
May 8, 1945
September 2, 1945
May 8, 1945 is
Victory in Europe Day
Victory in Japan Day
The day Hitler died
D-Day
V-J Day is ______________ and means _______________.
September 2, 1945; Victory in Japan
September 2, 1945; Victory in Jesus
May 8, 1945; Victory in Europe
April 8, 1945; Victory in Japan
August 6 and 9, 1945 are significant because
we dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
we bombed the Germans at Berlin and Nuremberg
The Japanese were bombed on the 6th and surrendered on the 9th.
We won the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
British and French soldiers were driven to the English Channel by the Germans and rescued by private boats of the British at:
Dunkirk
London
Stalingrad
Paris
The Germans bombed these people for months. Citizens were hiding in subways and basements for safety. The Royal Air Force was down to the last bit of fuel and held off the Luftwaffe.
Battle of Britain
Dunkirk
Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
The Germans captured 90% of this city but after winter set in, the Soviets were able to trap them and starve them out. The Soviets won but lost 1.1 million people in this battle alone.
Stalingrad
Leningrad
Warsaw
Moscow
The Japanese began using Kamikaze pilots in this battle, situated in a body of water in the Philippine Islands. The Allies were victorious.
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Manila
The Navajo Indians played a strategic role because
they created a code the Japanese couldn't break
they used ancient Navajo recipes to create poisons that killed many Japanese
they opened reservations to use a training centers
they were excellent pilots and won many awards, especially in Italy.
This group of people were interned in detention centers in the US for the duration of the war.
Japanese
Germans
Italians
Navajo
June 6, 1944 is
D-Day
Pearl Harbor Day
V-E Day
V-J Day
Battle of the Bulge took place in
December 1944
September 1939
December 1941
June 1944
Pearl Harbor was bombed on
December 7, 1941
December 7, 1944
June 6, 1944
May 8, 1945
WW2 officially began when Hitler invaded Poland on
September 1, 1939
June 6, 1944
May 8, 1945
December 7, 1941
The final island before the Japanese mainland was _____________________. The fighting here was brutal and was seen as a glimpse of how hard the Japanese would defend their home islands.
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
After the war, Germany was divided into 4 parts, each controlled by an Allied country, and the intent to set up a UN was determined at:
the Yalta Conference
the Geneva Convention
the Nuremberg trials
the Appeasement seminar
The US, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union are the main countries in
the Allies
the Axis powers
the Central Powers
the Triple Entente
