WorksheetsCh 11 WWII
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 49mins
The Allies adopted a "Europe First" strategy because:
Japan's victory at the Battle of Coral Sea had frustrated Allied objectives.
Germany, Italy and Japan developed a coordinated strategy for victory
Italy threatened to conquer from the eastern Adriatic to East Africa
only Germany was considered a serious long-term threat.
Which best describes the significance of the Battle of Midway?
Admiral Yamamoto wanted to force US defenses back to the California coast.
Armed ships faced one another directly instead of using planes and bombers.
Japan lost four aircraft carriers and never again threatened the US mainland.
The United States lost several aircraft carriers in the victory.
Japanese Americans generally faced more restrictions than Italian or German Americans during World War II because they
held more political power in the United States.
greatly outnumbered other immigrant groups.
were more isolated from other Americans and faced systemic racism.
lived along the West Coast
Why did Stalin want Britain and the United States to open a second front in France?
He wanted Germany to be forced to divide its troops between two fronts.
Soviet forces were losing ground in Eastern Europe and in the South.
He recalled the slaughter of troops along the Western Front in World War I.
His advisers told him the German U-boat presence in the English Channel was dangerous.
President Truman's chief priority in using the atomic bomb against Japan was to
become a superpower.
save American lives.
prepare for a U.S. invasion of Japan.
protect the lives of Japanese civilians.
Which group did Nazi ideology consider superior to other people?
Zionists
Gypsies
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Aryans
At the 1942 Wannsee Conference, Reinhard Heydrich
decided to invade large territories that were home to millions of Jews.
planned to carry out bogus medical experiments on prisoners.
determined the need to build additional concentration camps.
outlined the “Final Solution” to the Jewish question, a plan to exterminate about 11,000,000 Jews.
Use the quotation and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question.
“. . .disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous [cruel] acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent [beginning] of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration [aim] of the common people, . . . .”
—Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
What does this quotation from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaim?
The conscience of mankind wants to begin a new country.
People should try to ensure freedom and happiness for all humans.
Barbarous acts will never happen on Earth again.
People should work toward becoming wealthy.
What is one result of World War II?
Britain, France, and Spain began to seek new territories.
General Douglas MacArthur supervised the rebuilding of Germany.
Colonial peoples renewed their drive for independence from European powers.
Japan remained a colonial power.
Following the battle of Stalingrad,
German troops continued their blitzkrieg eastward.
Hitler controlled the Caucasus oil fields.
Stalin pulled the Soviets from the war.
Hitler’s plans of dominating Europe had ended.
Allied bombing of Germany in 1942 changed the war because it
helped pave the way for a later all-out offensive, and made civilians a target.
allowed the Allies to avoid fighting in Italy.
permitted German forces to occupy the best defensive positions.
placed additional pressure on Soviet troops.
Executive Order 9066 affected civil liberties in the United States because it
forced hundreds of Italian Americans into camps.
removed Germans and Italians from the enemy aliens list.
designated war zones from which anyone could be removed.
allowed Japanese Americans to enlist in the armed forces.
Which of the following took place at the Tehran Conference?
Roosevelt deferred to Churchill in all discussions with Stalin.
Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to attack Germany on the Western Front.
The leaders agreed that the German U-boat presence was small in the Atlantic.
Stalin asked for more landing craft, more equipment, and better-trained soldiers.
One of the effects of the Battle of the Bulge was that
Germany used its reserves and demoralized its troops in the battle.
British and American troops had little difficulty approaching Berlin.
Germany prolonged the time before its surrender to the Allies.
Soviet troops avoided the Oder River outside Berlin.
As American forces approached Japan, Japanese forces
won an important victory in the Philippines.
conquered every island the United States held.
surrendered quickly and joined the Allied forces.
fought to the end, preferring to kill themselves rather than surrender.
Who made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Leslie Groves
Enrico Fermi
Many Jews were prevented from leaving Germany because
they refused to leave their homes and businesses.
transportation to other countries was too expensive.
many countries refused to accept them during the Great Depression.
they needed to stay to protect their businesses and families.
During the 1945 conference in Potsdam,
Churchill replaced Clement Atlee as prime minister of Britain.
Stalin reneged on his pledge to enter the war against Japan in the Pacific.
the Big Three decided that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would be independent.
the Big Three formalized the plan to divide Germany into four zones of occupation.
How did Japan change politically after World War II?
A long-standing civil war resumed.
Communist and non-communist interests clashed.
Japan was divided into two different countries.
A new constitution enacted democratic reforms.
Which two nations emerged as the strongest following World War II?
Britain and France
the Soviet Union and the United States
China and Japan
Germany and Poland
Which battle on the Russian Front ended Hitler’s plans for dominating Europe?
Moscow
Leningrad
Stalingrad
Warsaw
Use the excerpt and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions.
“Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they’re sending all the Jews. . . . If it’s that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they’re being gassed.”
—Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank, Oct. 9, 1942
What was the Westerbork to which Frank referred?
a concentration camp
a military outpost
the codename for an Allied invasion
the name of a mission to free Jews from Germany
