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World War II vocab quiz

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Codename for building of atomic bomb

a)

operation overlord

b)

manhattan project

c)

Bracero Program

d)

project 832

2.

This was a new type of warfare that the Germans used to run through France and Poland in the early parts of WWII. It is also known as Lightning War.

a)

Hitler bombing

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

Ran-sacking

d)

Sitzkrieg

3.
Which leader became president in 1945?
a)
FDR
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Harry Truman
d)
Winston Churchill
4.
Name the military strategy used by the allies during the War in the Pacific to get closer to the Japanese mainland? 
a)
Blitzkrieg 
b)
Island Hopping 
c)
Kamikaze pilots 
d)
Amphibious attacks 
5.

Why was the Soviet Union not prepared to fight Germany during World War 2?

a)

Nonaggression Pact

b)

Stalin and Hitler were good friends

c)

Extreme weather

d)

Lebensraum

6.
Which WWII leader declared war on Germany and Japan, and was loved by many Americans for the programs he developed ?
a)
Winston Churchill
b)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c)
Harry S. Truman
d)
Adolf Hitler
7.

Which famous WWII leader was the dictator of the Soviet Union that had an alliance with Germany at the beginning of the war but later joined forces with the allied powers.

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Vladimir Lenin

d)

Joseph Stalin

8.
last offensive by Germany
a)
battle of Britain
b)
battle of Stalingrad
c)
Battle of the Bulge
d)
battle of midway
9.

United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany, became the 34th President of the United States

a)

Harry S. Truman

b)

Henry Kaiser

c)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

Douglas MacArthur

10.

name of the genocide against the Jews by the Nazis

a)

Holocaust

b)

Night of Broken Glass

c)

Great Purge

d)

Concentration Camps

11.
camps Japanese Americans were relocated to
a)
Internment Camps
b)
Concentration Camps
12.
What was the mission called, led by the Allied forces in 1944, that was the largest sea invasion in history?
a)
VE Day
b)
VJ Day
c)
D-Day
d)
Iwo Jima
13.

prohibits ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry. It also set up the Fair Employment Practice Committee.

a)

executive order 9906

b)

executive order 8802

c)

internment of the japanese

d)

part of the lend-lease act

14.

The functions of this were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II.

a)

Executive order 8802

b)

Price control program

c)

Bracero Program

d)

Office of Price Administration

15.

U.S. Supreme Court, on December 18, 1944, upheld (6–3) the conviction of Fred Korematsu—for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during World War II.

a)

Korematsu .vs United States

b)

Executive Order 8802

c)

Lebensraum

d)

Internment camps

16.

Influential political pressure group in the United States (1940–41) that opposed aid to the Allies in World War II because it feared direct American military involvement in the conflict.

a)

Nonaggression Pact

b)

Office of Americans First

c)

America First Committee

d)

Bracero Program

17.

Series of laws passed by Congress to prevent the U.S. from entering wars based on economic considerations, like in WW I.

a)

Neutrality Acts

b)

Allied Powers Act

c)

Lend-Lease Act

d)

Arsenal of Democracy

18.

The act of assembling and preparing for war

a)

Demilitarization

b)

Militarism

c)

Mobilization

d)

Genocide