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The Second World War

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when WW2 started

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Neville Chamberlain

c)

Oswald Mosley

d)

King Arthur

2.

What were Japanese Kamikazes?

a)

Guards for the Emperor of Japan

b)

Japanese elite

c)

American Japanese soldiers

d)

Airmen in Japanese planes that did suicide attacks

3.

When did WW2 start?

a)

Depends on historian

b)

1937

c)

1939

d)

1941

4.

Leader of The Soviet Union during WW2

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Khrushchev

c)

Gorbachev

d)

Tsar Nicolas

5.

Who won the battle of Midway?

a)

UK

b)

Japan

c)

Nazi Germany

d)

USA

6.

"A day that will live in infamy"

a)

FDR-Pearl Harbor

b)

Truman-Pearl Harbor

c)

George W. Bush-9/11

d)

Donald Trump-9/11

7.

What was the Munich agreement?

a)

Agreement for Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland

b)

Treaty after WW1

c)

Treaty between France and Prussia (Germany)

8.

What was the Danzig corridor

a)

Polish military base

b)

Water in the Baltic sea

c)

Polish occupied territory separating Germany from East Prussia

d)

A city similar to Berlin in the Cold War

9.

Did the Soviet Union invade the Baltic states?

a)

Yes

b)

No

10.

US leader during late WW2

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

Harry S. Truman

d)

Henry A. Wallace

11.

"Not a step back!"

a)

Soviet Order No. 227

b)

-Adolf Hitler

c)

Japanese military motto

d)

-United States Filipino Garrison

12.

Which nation discovered the holocaust first?

a)

Soviet Union

b)

United States

c)

France

d)

UK

13.

What was Lebensraum?

a)

German plan to provide living space for the "Aryan" people

b)

Manifest destiny in German

c)

Adolf Hitlers book

d)

Soviet plan to rape and kill early German settlers

14.

What was the Great Depression?

a)

When the New York stock exchange collapsed

b)

What Hitler called Germany under the Wiemar Republic

c)

Soviet Union under Stalin

d)

When Indians were starved by the UK

15.

When did the US enter WW2?

a)

1861

b)

1931

c)

1941

d)

1944

16.

Who was the monarch of the United Kingdom when WW2 started?

a)

Edward VIII

b)

George VI

c)

Elizabeth II

d)

George V

17.

The Emperor of Japan was treated like a god

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Were the Nazis the ones using concentration camps?

a)

Yes

b)

No, The US and The Soviet Union

c)

No, The Soviet Union

19.

Who "created" fascism?

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Josef Stalin

d)

Heinrich Himmler

20.

Who created communism?

a)

Karl Mark

b)

Fredric Engles

c)

Karl Mark and Fredric Engles

d)

Vladimir Lenin

21.

Who were the main fighters at D-Day?

a)

Americans, Canadians, and the British

b)

Americans, Canadians, the British, and the Germans

c)

Japanese, Australians, Americans, and Chinese

d)

Soviets, the British, and Italians

22.

Who was the supreme Allied commander in Europe?

a)

Bernard Montgomery

b)

George S. Patton

c)

Omar Bradly

d)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

23.

Who was the British Prime Minister before Neville Chamberlain

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Herbert Hoover

c)

Stanley Baldwin

d)

Margaret Thatcher

24.

D-Day was the biggest naval invasion

a)

True

b)

False

25.

U.S. Army only had volunteers

a)

True

b)

False