WorksheetsWorld War II
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
On December 7, 1941, which country invaded American airfields in the Philippines as well as Pearl Harbor?
Japan
Germany
Italy
China
Where did the Japanese force prisoners to make a "death march" to a prison camp?
Manila
Corregidor
Guam
Bataan
American troops in the Pacific were under the command of American general _____________________.
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Patton
David Petraeus
The Japanese were using a military strategy called "island hopping".
True
False
A kamikaze was a ___________________.
Japanese battleship
Japanese pilot
Japanese soldier
An American code talker
The Manhattan Project was a plan to station more U.S. troops in New York City.
True
False
The war with Japan ended when the United States ___________
used suicide pilots to attack naval vessels
started an economic blockade
offered to unconditionally surrender
dropped the atomic bombs
The number of people killed in World War II was
more than 55 million
more than 6 million
more than 25 million
more than 100 million
The Allies helped the Soviets defeat Germany, and then they turned their attention to North Africa.
True
False
The German general in command of Axis forces in North Africa was ____________________
Dwight Eisenhower
George Patton
Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox)
Dorie Miller
After defeating the Germans in North Africa, the Allied forces next moved on to ___________________
France
Italy
the Soviet Union
South Africa
What code name did the Allies call their planned invasion of occupied Europe
Operation Mainland
Operation European Storm
Operation Independence
Operation Overlord
The Germans won the Battle of the Bulge.
True
False
The Nazis attempted genocide of the Jews.
True
False
How did the United States refocus its economy when it entered World War II?
Many women lost their jobs
Factories shifted to producing war time materials needed to fight the war
African American workers faced discrimination
Most businesses had to close because they had no workers.
In World War II, women were finally allowed to fight in combat.
True
False
Which was not a way the United States raised money to pay for the war?
Raised Taxes
Sold War Bonds
Sold Ships
American soldiers were called "GIs" because
their uniforms were marked "Government Issue."
they were considered general infantry officers
they were named after a popular children's toy
they were considered government insiders
Americans had to conserve and limit the use of items that were scarce. This is called
Discrimination
Ration
Internment
Depression
During World War II, the army began training whites and African Americas together for the first time.
True
False
The "code talkers" were Native Americans who ________
worked in factories
sent messages based on the Navajo language
formed an elite fighting force
worked on farms during the harvest
After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, many Japanese Americans were
forced to work in airplane factories
sent back to Japan
shipped to an island off San Francisco
sent to internment camps
World War II officially began when Great Britain and France declared war on Germany two days after Hitler invaded
Belgium
Poland
France
Czechoslovakia
The meaning of blitzkrieg is
little war
failed war
lightning war
long war
A string of steel-and-concrete bunkers along the French-German border was known as the
Maginot Line
Berlin Wall
European Theater
Dunkirk Line
Who was the prime minister of Great Britain
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
Erwin Rommel
Dwight Eisenhower
Isolationist believed that the United States should join the war to help France and Great Britain.
True
False
The United States entered World War II because
the Japanese seized Manchuria
German soldiers invaded Poland
German subs fired on American destroyers
Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor
Which dictator was head of the Fascist Party?
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Hideki Tojo
Adolf Hitler was the head of Germany's
National Socialist Party
Conservative Party
Communist Party
Fascist Party
The Axis alliance was made up of
France, Italy, and China
Italy, Japan, and Great Britain
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Japan, China, and India
A law that allowed the United States to loan money and supplies to the Allied nations that were at war.
Neutrality Acts
Lend Lease Agreement
Potsdam Declaration
Isolationist Acts
At the Munich conference, the Allied powers planned to give the Sudetenland to Germany as
an appeasement
a reparation
a token of friendship
After the appeasement, Hitler kept his promise and never invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia.
True
False
Hitler was free to invade Poland because he signed a non-aggression pact with
Mussolini
Churchill
Stalin
Hirohito
A character used in propaganda to persuade women to help with the war effort was
Rosie the Riveter
Dr. Seuss
Yertle the Turtle
Mickey Mouse
Little Boy was the first atomic bomb dropped on this city
Nagasaki
Tokyo
Hiroshima
Manilla
Fat Man was the second atomic bomb dropped on this Japanese city
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Manilla
Tokyo
Important link and waterway between Europe and Africa that the Nazis wanted to control
Panama Canal
Erie Canal
Suez Canal
Red Sea
Secret group that developed the atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
Operation Overlord
Code Breakers
V-E Day is
April 30, 1945
May 8, 1945
August 15, 1945
December 7, 1941
Franklin D. Roosevelt died on
April 12, 1945
April 30, 1945
May 8, 1945
August 15, 1945
The Enola Gay was
a ship that sunk in the Pacific
the 1st atomic bomb
a plane that delivered the atomic bomb
a female pilot of World War II
General Douglas MacArthur's strategy of island hopping was to jump from one island to the next until the Allied powers reached
Manchuria
China
The Philippines
Japan
Organization created after World War I to promote peace but was later replaced by the United Nations in 1945
PEMEX
UN
League of Nations
Allied Powers
During World War II, the Nazis killed as many as 6 million Jews. What has this become known as?
The Holocaust
Kristallnacht
Hitler's horror
Nuremberg laws
The reason that Truman decided to use the atomic bomb
It would save American lives
It would put an end to World War II
It would force Japan to surrender
All of these reasons
It was just another military weapon to be used
Germany did not defeat Great Britain in the Battle of Britain because
Great Britain's Royal Air Force was too powerful
Hitler had already committed suicide and surrendered
They had an agreement to not fight each other
Germany had to attack the Soviet Union first
Causes of World War II include
Imperialism
Extreme Nationalism
Dictators
All of these choices
The Allied Powers included
France, Italy, and Great Britain
U.S., Germany, and Japan
Great Britain, U.S., and the Soviet Union
Great Britain, France, and Italy
Country that practiced imperialism and invaded Manchuria, the Philippines, and Burma
Germany
China
Japan
Soviet Union
The Germans trapped the Allied troops at Dunkirk. The Allied troops
surrendered at Dunkirk
were rescued by British ships across the English channel
were killed by sharks while swimming across the English channel
fought back and defeated Germany
Dwight D. Eisenhower landed his Allied troops on the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944. What was this day known as?
Battle of Leningrad
D-Day
V-D Day
Battle of the Bulge
Where were Nazi war criminals tried?
United States
Paris
Potsdam
Nuremberg
Which two costly Allied victories brought the Allies with easy reach of Japan?
Manila and Bataan Peninsula
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Wake Island and Hong Kong
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
World War II ended when Japan surrendered on
August 15, 1945
May 8, 1945
April 12, 1945
April 30, 1945
World War II lasted from
1914-1918
1939-1945
1950-1953
1954-1975
Who was President during most of World War II?
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
African American hero of World War II. A local park in our area is named after him
Erwin Rommel
Dorie Miller
George Patton
Dwight Eisenhower
After World War I, this treaty made Germany angry (a BRAT) and is considered one of the causes of World War II.
The Treaty of Paris
The Marshall Plan
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Brest-Litvosk
