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WWII Review

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The name of the fascist dictator of Germany

a)

Hitler

b)

Mussolini

c)

Stalin

d)

Franco

2.

The name of the fascist dictator of Spain

a)

Hitler

b)

Mussolini

c)

Stalin

d)

Franco

3.

The name of the fascist dictator of Italy

a)

Hitler

b)

Mussolini

c)

Stalin

d)

Franco

4.

The name of the fascist dictator of the USSR

a)

Hitler

b)

Mussolini

c)

Stalin

d)

Franco

5.

Who was president of the US during WWII?

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Franklin Roosevelt

c)

Hoover and Roosevelt

d)

Roosevelt and Truman

6.

Which president ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs?

a)

Hoover

b)

Hitler

c)

Roosevelt

d)

Truman

7.

What organization failed to stop dictators from taking territories, from 1931-1938?

a)

United Nations

b)

United States

c)

League of Nations

d)

Washington Naval Conference

8.

Hitler was appeased for what territory, in return for a promise to not take any further territory?

a)

Sudetenland

b)

Austria

c)

Rhineland

d)

Poland

9.

Hitler's homeland that he took without opposition in 1938

a)

Sudetenland

b)

Austria

c)

Rhineland

d)

Poland

10.

the industrial territory that Hitler re-militarized in 1935 without opposition from the League of Nations

a)

Sudetenland

b)

Austria

c)

Rhineland

d)

Poland

11.

the country that Stalin and Hitler both invaded in 1939; this was the last straw for the Allies, who declared war thereafter

a)

Sudetenland

b)

Austria

c)

Rhineland

d)

Poland

12.

Which British prime minister appeased Hitler at the Munich Conference for the Sudetenland?

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Neville Chamberlain

c)

Clement Atlee

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

13.

What was the event called where gangs of Nazi thugs broke into Jewish synagogues, businesses, and homes and caused a lot of destruction? Then they blamed it on the Jews...

a)

Krystalnacht

b)

Nuremberg Trials

c)

Final Solution

d)

Auschwitz

14.

the worst concentration camp; Hitler placed it in Poland

a)

Krystalnacht

b)

Nuremberg Trials

c)

Final Solution

d)

Auschwitz

15.

when the Nazi leaders were taken to court by the world and sentenced to death; after WWII

a)

Krystalnacht

b)

Nuremberg Trials

c)

Final Solution

d)

Auschwitz

16.

Hitler's name for the Holocaust, it included gas chambers, starvation, etc of Jews, Poles, Gypsies, etc

a)

Krystalnacht

b)

Nuremberg Trials

c)

Final Solution

d)

Auschwitz

17.

Which laws said it was illegal for the US to trade with nations at war, 1934-1936?

a)

cash-and-carry

b)

Lend-Lease Act

c)

Neutrality Acts

d)

destroyer-for-bases

18.

FDR's first decision to send military weapons to Churchill, it included old ships in exchange for military bases around the British empire

a)

cash-and-carry

b)

Lend-Lease Act

c)

Neutrality Acts

d)

destroyer-for-bases

19.

an amendment to the Neutrality Acts in 1939, passed after the invasion of Poland, where the US would trade with countries at war, but NO LOANS and the British/French would have to take the goods back on their own boats

a)

cash-and-carry

b)

Lend-Lease Act

c)

Neutrality Acts

d)

destroyer-for-bases

20.

FDR allowing the US to finally give loans to the Allies and let them borrow military equipment

a)

cash-and-carry

b)

Lend-Lease Act

c)

Neutrality Acts

d)

destroyer-for-bases

21.

Why did the US get involved in WWII?

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

D-Day

d)

Battle of Midway

22.

the last German offensive of the war

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

D-Day

d)

Battle of Midway

23.

opened up a true second front against Hitler

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

D-Day

d)

Battle of Midway

24.

first defensive victory against Japan

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

D-Day

d)

Battle of Midway

25.

growing your own vegetables was considered patriotic

a)

victory gardens

b)

Japanese internment

c)

Rosie the Riveter

d)

rationing

26.

arguably FDR's worst violation of civil rights

a)

victory gardens

b)

Japanese internment

c)

Rosie the Riveter

d)

rationing

27.

the government required people to limit their purchases during WWII

a)

victory gardens

b)

Japanese internment

c)

Rosie the Riveter

d)

rationing

28.

the nickname of the women who went to the factories in order to make the ships and airplanes for the war

a)

victory gardens

b)

Japanese internment

c)

Rosie the Riveter

d)

rationing