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WorksheetsWorld War 2
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 30mins
The granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace
appeasement
atlantic charter
non-aggression pact
deficit
Nazi dictator of Germany
Adolf Hitler
Hideki Tojo
Neville Chamberlain
Joseph Stalin
Prime minister of Britain during the START of WWII
Adolf Hitler
Hideki Tojo
Neville Chamberlain
Joseph Stalin
Fascist dictator of Italy
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Neville Chamberlain
Joseph Stalin
Prime Minister of Great Britain during later parts of WWII
Winston Churchill
Benito Mussolini
Neville Chamberlain
Joseph Stalin
War strategy used by Germany against Poland
blitzkrieg
tripartite pact
kristallnacht
holocaust
lightening war
blitzkrieg
tripartite pact
kristallnacht
holocaust
made use of fast tanks and more powerful aircraft to take the enemy by surprise then quickly overwhelm the opposition
blitzkrieg
tripartite pact
kristallnacht
holocaust
Agreement between Germany and USSR not to fight each other
nonagression pact
tripartite pact
kristallnacht
munich agreement
Germany, italy, japan
Axis powers
Allied powers
Communist Dictator of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Hideki Tojo
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
US, Britain, and the Soviet Union
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
The night of November 9th,1938, when Nazis in Germany attack Jewish people, their businesses and their synagogues.
Kristallnacht
Blitkrieg
Genocide
Kamikaze
Laws passed by congress to ban the sale of arms or loans to nations at war, later extended to ban sales to nations engaged in civil wars
lend lease
neutrality acts
nazism
appeasement
Agreement signed by British prime minister, signing Sudetenland over to Germany without a single shot being fired.
Munich agreement
non agression pact
tripartite pact
neutrality acts
Treaty forming the Axis powers. The intention of this treaty was to prevent the US from joining, because of the threat of a two-ocean war
Munich agreement
non agression pact
tripartite pact
neutrality acts
Trying to pacify an aggressor in order to keep the peace
appeasement
kamikaze
genocide
agression
Law that allowed lending or leasing of arms to any nation “whose defense was vital to the US”
lend-lease act
neutrality act
genocide
German brand of totalitarianism; was based on extreme nationalism and racism
Nazism
Facism
Dictatorship
Genocide
Political system based on a strong centralized government headed by a dictator. It stresses nationalism and placed the interest of the state above those of individuals.
Nazism
Fascism
Genocide
Totalitarianism
Government that has complete control over its citizens and puts down all opposition; individuals have no rights.
Nazism
Fascism
Genocide
Totalitarianism
Segregated Jewish areas in certain Polish cities.
Ghetto
Genocide
Concentration Camps
Kristallnacht
Laws passed by congress to ban the sale of arms or loans to nations at war, later extended to ban sales to nations engaged in civil wars
Neutrality acts
lend-lease
totalitarian
appeasement
Prison camps operated by the Nazis
concentration camps
genocide
ghetto
holocaust
Systematic murder of 11 million Jewish and other people in Europe by the Nazis
Holocaust
genocide
Kristallnacht
Blitzkreig
The Deliberate and systematic act of killing of an entire population of people
Holocaust
genocide
Kristallnacht
Blitzkreig
Most of Germany’s aggression and resentment during World War II stemmed from what result of World War I?
The treaty of Paris
The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Treaty of Versailles
What was Neville Chamberlain’s goal while meeting with Adolf Hitler for the Munich Agreement?
avoid war at all costs
form and alliance with Japan
Create a treaty to end the war
Allow Great Britain to reclaim Sudetenland
pacifying an agressor in order to avoid war at any cost is called
appeasement
alliance
agression
neutrality
Roosevelt referred to which event as "a date that will live with infamy"?
the bombing of pearl harbor
d day
the bombing of Hiroshima
the discovery of the the Holocaust
In 1944, the supreme court upheld the internment of Japanese Americans residing on the West coast by ruling that the actions were
part of an agreement with the allies
approved by both houses of congress
allowed under the 4th amendment
necessary for national security
What was the main reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?
The US dropped an atomic bomb on two cities in Japan
The US prohibited Asian immigrants
The US imposed oil embargos on Japan
Japanese Americans were held in internment camps
Following the 1941 Oil embargo imposed by the US on Japan, Japan reacted by
attacking Pearl Harbor
US attacks Nagasaki
US prohibits Japanese Americans
Japanese internment camps are constructed
Propaganda encouraged women to contribute to the war effort by indicating...
military service was a profitable career for women
protecting the home front was a public obligation for women
political participation was a citizenship requirement for women
assisting the military mission was a patriotic action for women
The American Navy attacked islands held by the Japanese in the Pacific ocean through this strategy
island hopping
blitzkrig
kamikaze
guerrilla warfare
The US program to develop an atomic bomb for use in WWII
Manhattan Project
Project 54
Monroe Project
Nuremberg Trials
The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the allied powers. Here they discussed the future of Europe, but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold war
postdam conference
Tehran conference
Yalta conference
Munich agreement
The attack of Pearl Harbor was referred to by FDR in his speech to congress as
"A date which will live in infamy"
"A treacherous disaster"
"A call to arms"
"An arsenal of democracy"
The U.S. Congress passed a series of neutrality acts beginning in August 1935 in response to
British blockades of German ports
American anti-war sentiment
the German invasion of Poland
the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor
Which of the following is the BEST example of appeasement?
Kristallnacht
The Munich Agreement
The Manhattan project
The Tehran Conference
The US congress passed a series of Neutrality acts because of
American anti-war sentiment
British request to blockade German ports
The German invasion of Poland
the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor
