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World War 2 Review

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the exact date of the start of World War 2?

a)

September 1st, 1939

b)

August 28th, 1940

c)

December 7th, 1941

d)

May 4th, 1945

2.

What was one of the main causes of World War 2?

a)

Nazi takeover of Austria and the Sudetenland

b)

The unfair Versailles Treaty

c)

U.S. attack of German shipping

d)

Japanese aggression towards China

3.

Who declared war on Germany in 1933, 6 years before the start of World War 2?

a)

The United States

b)

England

c)

World Jewish Organizations

d)

The Soviet Union

4.

Which President orchestrated a total naval blockade around the island of Japan, prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor?

a)

Roosevelt

b)

Eisenhower

c)

Truman

d)

Hoover

5.

What was the city where over 300,000 civilians, soldiers and refugees were deliberately bombed with illegal phosphorous incendiary explosives that burned inhabitants alive, creating a massive fire-storm?

a)

Moscow

b)

Warsaw

c)

Dresden

d)

London

6.

What country, in cooperation with Soviet NKVD, murdered approximately 58,000 innocent German civilians living in their country, prior to the start of World War 2?

a)

Poland

b)

France

c)

Hungary

d)

Austria

7.

Which army was denied protection under the Geneva Convention and imprisoned and enslaved AFTER the end of the war?

a)

Soviet

b)

German

c)

British

d)

French

8.

What U.S. General ordered the imprisonment of German soldiers after the war, causing the deaths of approximately 1.5 million soldiers at the Rhine Meadows Death Camps?

a)

Patton

b)

Bradley

c)

Eisenhower

d)

Montgomery

9.

What Western leader ordered the civilian bombing of Freiburg, Germany, killing 57 inhabitants, on the first day he took power on May 10th, 1940?

a)

Churchill

b)

Chamberlin

c)

Roosevelt

d)

Stalin

10.

A world leader by the name of Bernard Lacache, stated prior to the start of World War 2 that, "Germany is our public enemy number one. It is our object to declare war without mercy against her.’ What organization was he in?

a)

The United Nations

b)

The League of Nations

c)

The Council on Foreign Relations

d)

The World Jewish League

11.

The book "Germany Must Perish", written by Jewish journalist Theodore Kaufmann, advocated forced sterilization of Germans and the destruction of the German nation. What year was it published?

a)

1939, at the beginning of World War 2

b)

1941, before U.S. involvement in World War 2 and the Holocaust

c)

1943, after the start of the Holocaust

d)

1945, at the end of the war

12.

Who massacred over 12,000 Polish intellectuals, politicians, and military officers in the forest of Katyn and blamed it on the Germans?

a)

England

b)

United States

c)

Finland

d)

Soviet Union

13.

Who stated the following in 1934, 5 years before the start of World War 2? "We shall start a spiritual and material war of the whole world against Germany. Germany is striving to become once again a great nation, and to recover her lost territories as well as her colonies. But our Jewish interests call for the complete destruction of Germany.”

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Vladimir Jabotinsky

c)

Samuel Untermeyer

d)

Barnard Baruch

14.

In what country were more inhabitants killed AFTER World War 2 than during?

a)

Germany

b)

Poland

c)

The Soviet Union

d)

Romania

15.

The U.S., England, France and the Soviet Union were:

a)

NATO

b)

Warsaw Pact

c)

Axis

d)

All-Lies

16.

What country held a plebiscite and voted almost unanimously (98%), to be part of the Third Reich?

a)

Switzerland

b)

Austria

c)

czechoslovakia

d)

Poland

17.

Which World War 2 leader was a vegetarian, did not smoke or drink, was a gifted artist, won several medals in combat during World War 1, and was self-taught with an extensive library of over 3000 books?

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

18.

Which navy sunk a German ship named the Wilhelm Gustloff which was loaded with refugees, women and children, killing over 10,000 people, making it the worst naval disaster ever.

a)

British

b)

U.S.

c)

French

d)

Soviet

19.

In June of 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, why do you think he did this?

a)

He hated all slavic people and wanted to take their land

b)

It was a pre-emptive strike: the Soviets were about to launch a major offensive on all of Europe with the hopes of conquering Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and England

c)

He had a dream of world conquest like Napoleon

d)

Italy and Japan advised him to attack