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World War II

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In what month of 1941 did Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union start?

a)

March

b)

August

c)

July

d)

June

2.

Was the Soviet Union part of the Axis Powers during World War II?

a)

YES

b)

NO

3.

During World War II, Japan was one of the Axis powers.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Where did the D-Day invasion occur?

a)

Warsaw

b)

Minsk

c)

Cherbourg

d)

Normandy

5.

In what month in 1945 did Japan surrender to the US?

a)

December

b)

October

c)

January

d)

September

6.

Winston Churchill made the following statement about the battle that occurred between October 23 and November 3, 1942: "Now this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Name the battle.

a)

First Battle of El Alamein

b)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

c)

Operation Anthropoid

d)

Second Battle of El Alamein

7.

Until which event did the US remain neutral in the Second World War?

a)

The Pearl Harbor attack

b)

The battle of Kursk

c)

Operation Barbarossa

d)

The Siege of Leningrad

8.

Which organization did the Allies create in 1945 in order to maintain peace after World War II?

a)

The European Union

b)

The League of Nations

c)

The United Nations

d)

The North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

9.

Which event provoked the Second Sino-Japanese War?

a)

The Battle of Shanghai

b)

The Nanking Massacre

c)

Japan's occupation of Manchuria

d)

Japan's attack on Beijing

10.

In 1945, Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt made arrangements for post-war Europe. Where did the conference take place?

a)

Yalta

b)

Warsaw

c)

Hawaii

d)

Versailles