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World War II

Total questions: 66

Worksheet time: 7mins

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Class
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1.

What was significant about the Spanish Civil War?

a)

It was a role model for post World War II politics.

b)

It was the dress rehearsal for World War II.

c)

It's where Franco became a major player in the world.

d)

George Orwell found his writing voice.

2.

Why did the Japanese feel the need to expand?

a)

To be a true Empire.

b)

It honored the bushido code.

c)

Because they hated the Chinese government.

d)

It lacked resources.

3.

Why were the Japanese unhappy with the Treaty of Versailles?

a)

They were promised land and didn't get it.

b)

It was not a document that expressed the views of the modern world.

c)

The United States drafted it and that was their mortal enemy.

d)

It lacked thought and creativity.

4.

Mein Kampf was written by this person:

a)

Franco

b)

Stalin

c)

FDR

d)

Hitler

5.

What was the Samurai Bushido Code?

a)

The post World War II plan that would inspire Gen. Marshall.

b)

Life, meaning, and Happiness

c)

Duty, Self-Sacrifice, loyalty, devotion, honor to death.

d)

Death to anybody that crosses you.

6.

Where did Japan invade first?

a)

China

b)

North Korea

c)

The Philippines

d)

Manchuria

7.

At __________ was were Japanese troops killed thousands of civilians, raped women, and killed children.

a)

The Philippines

b)

Nanking

c)

Iwo Jima

d)

Okinawa

8.

Advocating or pursuing an aggressive military policy; War hawkish.

a)

Chauvinistic

b)

Militaristic

c)

Big Stick Dipolmacy

d)

Post World War I policy.

9.

To promote isolationism, the US passed this law that forbade the sale of weapons to warring countries and also outlawed lending money to them.

a)

Lend Lease

b)

The New Deal

c)

Executive Order 9066

d)

The Neutrality Acts

10.

The following is NOT an example of how Hitler violated The Treaty of Versailles:

a)

Remilitarizing the Rhineland.

b)

The Dawes Plan

c)

Building a strong Military

d)

Creation of the Luftwaffe

11.

An agreement between two countries to not fight each other and split Poland down the middle.

a)

The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggressive Pact.

b)

English-Soviet Peace agreemant

c)

The Potsdam accord

d)

The Yalta deal

12.

Who were apart of the Tripartite pact?

a)

England, USA, Soviet Union

b)

Spain, Italy, Germany, Soviet Union

c)

Japan, Germany, Italy

d)

Spain, Germany, Italy

13.

Who were the Allied Powers

a)

Japan, Germany, Italy

b)

France, Spain, Greece

c)

USA, France, Italy

d)

USA, Soviet Union, Great Britain

14.

Who were the Axis Powers?

a)

Germany, Italy, Japan

b)

USA, Great Britain, France

c)

Spain, Italy, Germany

d)

China, Soviet Union, North Korea

15.

A large evacuation that saved thousands of British soldiers.

a)

Dunkirk

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

D-Day

d)

Schindler's Plan

16.

How was World War II different for France than World War I

a)

They pushed the Germans around this time.

b)

They pulled all the weight for most of the war.

c)

They were wiped out within a month in WWII.

d)

Trick Question France has never been in a war.

17.

The bombing of London was:

a)

Blitzkrieg

b)

The Battle of the Bulge

c)

The Great Blitz

d)

The Great Cat Massacre

18.

The Nazi's mass invasion of the Soviet Union was know as...

a)

Stalingrad

b)

Operation Barbarossa

c)

The Russian Revolution

d)

The Great Purge

19.

This battle was the turning point in Eastern Europe and the war in Europe in general.

a)

Midway

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Stalingrad

d)

Operation Barbarossa

20.

What was the main objective for the invasion of Normandy?

a)

To kill Hitler.

b)

To put pressure on the Japanese.

c)

Create a diversion.

d)

To liberate France.

21.

What country had the most casualties after WWII?

a)

USA

b)

Great Britain

c)

The Soviet Union

d)

Japan

22.

What country was the Sudetenland in?

a)

Poland

b)

Austria

c)

Czechoslovakia

d)

The Soviet Union

23.

Giving into aggressive demands to maintain peace.

a)

Neutrality Acts

b)

Appeasement

c)

Lend Lease

d)

Laissez-faire

24.

The RAF was?

a)

The British Navy

b)

The German Air-force

c)

The US Navy

d)

The British Air-Force

25.

The Luftwaffe was?

a)

The German Laws

b)

The German Air-Force

c)

The German Navy

d)

The German Police

26.

Who was the commander of the Pacific?

a)

Eisenhower

b)

Patton

c)

FDR

d)

MacArthur

27.

Who was the commander of the Europe

a)

Eisenhower

b)

MacArthur

c)

Patton

d)

Montgomery

28.

Who was the Dessert Fox?

a)

Patton

b)

Rommel

c)

James Bond

d)

Eisenhower

29.

Germany's last offensive

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

Battle of Midway

c)

D-Day

d)

Stalingrad

30.

The Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII

a)

FDR

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Nevill Chamberlain

d)

Alec Guinness

31.

He was the US President during the majority of WWII:

a)

Harry Truman

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

Woodrow Wilson

32.

He was the US President that made the decision to drop two Atomic Bombs:

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Douglas MacArthur

c)

Harry Truman

d)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

33.

He was the dictator of Germany during WWII:

a)

Hitler

b)

Mussolini

c)

Franco

d)

Stalin

34.

He was the leader of the Nationalist during the Spanish Civil War:

a)

Francisco Franco

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Joseph Stalin

35.

A former journalist and socialist that later create the fascist party

a)

Peter Jennings

b)

Francisco Franco

c)

V.I. Lenin

d)

Benito Mussolini

36.

Was the star of a campaign in the US aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II:

a)

Uncle Sam

b)

Rosie the Riveter

c)

James Cagney

d)

Frank Sinatra

37.

Was an extensive system of coastal defense and fortifications built by Nazi Germany to keep out an anticipated Allied invasion.

a)

The Atlantic Wall

b)

The Maginot Line

c)

The D-Day Defense System

d)

Hitler's Wall

38.

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause of point of view.

a)

Propaganda

b)

Fake News

c)

Nazi Message

d)

Communism

39.

A surprise attack in the pacific that started the pacific theater campaign in World War II.

a)

Pearl Harbor

b)

Iwo Jima

c)

Midway

d)

The Philippines

40.

A strategy that the US used in the war in the pacific against the Japanese:

a)

Total War

b)

Island-Hopping

c)

Carpet Bombing

d)

Japanese Blitzkrieg

41.

The bloodiest battle in the war in the Pacific:

a)

The Philipines

b)

Midway

c)

Iwo Jima

d)

Pearl Harbor

42.

This battle was the first naval battle where the enemy battleships didn't even see each other, because of technology and weather.

a)

Midway

b)

Battle of the Coral Sea

c)

Iwo Jima

d)

Battle of the English Channel

43.

This battle was the turning point in the war in the pacific.

a)

Iwo Jima

b)

Battle of Midway

c)

The Philipines

d)

Battle of Tokyo

44.

Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.

a)

Suicide Bomber

b)

Kamikaze

c)

Bushido Fighters

d)

Japanese Missile Planes

45.

Was a research and development project during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

a)

The Philadelphia Experiment

b)

Manhattan Project

c)

Oppenheimer Project

d)

Atomic Bomb Project

46.

The American physicist that helped make the first nuclear weapon.

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Robert Oppenhiemer

c)

Wernher von Braun

d)

Alan Touring

47.

The first Atomic Bomb was dropped on this location

a)

Nagasaki

b)

Hiroshima

c)

Iwo Jima

d)

Tokoyo

48.

After the first Atomic bomb was dropped a few days later a second Atomic Bomb was dropped on this location.

a)

Nagasaki

b)

Hiroshima

c)

Iwo Jima

d)

Okanawa

49.

The genocide during World War II that saw the systematic murder of six million Jews

a)

The Jewish genocide

b)

The Holocaust

c)

The Armenian genocide

d)

Final Solution

50.

Stripped Jews of their citizenship and rights

a)

Nuremberg Trails

b)

Nuremberg Laws

c)

The Holocaust

d)

Propaganda

51.

On this night Germans torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.

a)

Kristallnacht

b)

The Triumph of the Will

c)

The Great Jewish Massacre

d)

The Nuremberg March

52.

At First in order to segregate the Jews from the other population. The Jews were moved to this area.

a)

Gulag

b)

Ghettos

c)

Internment Camps

d)

Auschwitz

53.

The deliberate killing of a large group of people especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

a)

Homicide

b)

Gendercide

c)

Nazism

d)

Genocide

54.

The Nuremberg Trials were:

a)

When 200 Germans and Austrians were tried for crimes against humanity.

b)

The trials for German Jews who violated the Nuremberg Laws.

c)

A rally held in Nuremberg

d)

The Trail that was held before Jews were sent off to Auschwitz.

55.

This battle for the first time in World War II saw the RAF face the Luftwaffe. It was a battle that would later be seen as a moral victory for the British.

a)

The Battle of Stalingrad

b)

The Battle of Britain

c)

The Battle of Midway

d)

The Battle of The Bulge

56.

In February of 1945 this conference top priorities was the reorganization of Germany and Europe in a Post World War II world.

a)

Yalta Conference

b)

Potsdam Conference

c)

Tehran Conference

d)

Casablanca Conference

57.

In June of 1945 this Conference's main focus was ending the war against the Japanese and resurrecting Germany and Eastern Europe.

a)

Yalta Conference

b)

Potsdam Conference

c)

Tehran Conference

d)

The Cold War Conference

58.

This act was a way around the Neutrality Acts and made it okay to lend money and trade war goods to countries that were vital to the survival of American Democracy.

a)

The Franco-Anglo Act

b)

Lend Lease

c)

The Phony War Policy

d)

The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggressive Pact

59.

This event ended the United States Isolationism and brought them into World War II.

a)

The Attack of Pearl Harbor

b)

The Invasion of Poland

c)

The Battle of Britain

d)

The Battle of France

60.

It replaced the Neutrality Acts of 1937, by countries could purchase only nonmilitary goods from the United States as long as the recipients paid immediately in cash and assumed all risk in transportation using their own ships.

a)

Cash and Carry Policy

b)

The Neutrality Acts II

c)

The Good Neighbor Policy

d)

The War Acts of 1937

61.

Executive Order 9066 was:

a)

The Elimination of all Jedi's

b)

The Elimination of all Jews

c)

People of Japanese decent had to relocate to Internment Camps

d)

The order to declare war on Japan

62.

This replaced the League of Nations

a)

NATO

b)

The New League of Nations

c)

The United Nations

d)

The Warsaw Pact

63.

The League of Nations failed because:

a)

It was weak and failed to enforce its sanctions.

b)

The United States didn't join.

c)

Hitler destroyed it when he invaded France.

d)

It was corrupt and bought out by capitalist.

64.

Hitler and Mussolini supported this leader

a)

Stalin

b)

Franco

c)

Franklin Roosevelt

d)

Winston Churchill

65.

The Nazi's considered this the master race:

a)

Jews

b)

Aryans

c)

Slavs

d)

Poles

66.

The final answer to the question of the Jewish problem. It was the Nazi plan for the genocide of the Jews during World War II.

a)

The Final Solution

b)

The Final Plan

c)

The Nuremberg Plan

d)

The Jewish Problem Resolution