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World War 2 Review

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What occured on December 7, 1941?

a)

VE Day

b)

Pearl Harbor was bombed

c)

VJ Day

d)

Germany invaded Poland

2.

Who made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Douglas MacAuthur

c)

Harry Truman

d)

Dwight Eisenhower

3.

Who made up the "Big Three" Allied Powers?

a)

USA, Britain, & Soviet Union

b)

Soviet Union, Britain, & Germany

c)

Japan, Britain, & USA

d)

USA, Italy, & Britain

4.

Who was the leader of Japan?

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Emperor Hirohito

d)

Benito Mussolini

5.

What is the name given to the Nazi's murder of 6 million Jews and non-Aryans?

a)

D-Day

b)

Little Boy

c)

Holocaust

d)

Hiroshima

6.

What countries made up the Axis Powers?

a)

Japan, China, & Korea

b)

Italy, Germany, & Soviet Union

c)

Germany, Italy, & Japan

d)

Germany, Italy, & China

7.

What strategy did the US use to defeat Japan?

a)

Blitzkrieg

b)

Island Hopping

c)

Atomic Bombs

d)

No real strategy was needed

8.

The practice of giving a dictator what he wants is known as what?

a)

Appeasement

b)

Gratitude

c)

Entitlement

d)

Encouragement

9.

Who was the dictator of Nazi Germany?

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Emperor Hirohito

c)

Benito Mussolini

d)

Adolf Hitler

10.

Who was the dictator of Italy?

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Emperor Hirohito

d)

Winston Churhill

11.

Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union?

a)

Emperor Hirohito

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Benito Mussolini

d)

Joseph Stalin

12.

On what date did D-Day occur?

a)

December 7, 1941

b)

May 8, 1945

c)

June 6, 1944

d)

July 4, 1943

13.

What provoked the US into entering WWII?

a)

Germany's invasion of Poland

b)

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

c)

D-Day

d)

The Soviet Union's invasion of Poland

14.

Where did the D-Day landings take place?

a)

Nagasaki Japan

b)

Hiroshima Japan

c)

Berlin Germany

d)

Normandy France

15.

Who was the symbol of wartime women in the workplace?

a)

Betty Bomber

b)

Eleanor Roosevelt

c)

Rosie the Riveter

d)

Margaret Mitchell

16.

The Manhattan Project was:

a)

Never found after President Franklin Roosevelt passed away

b)

The U.S. development of atomic weapons

c)

A secret mission to invade Germany

d)

I project that involved the Soviet Union

17.

Dunkirk is the location where:

a)

Hitler first invaded in Poland

b)

The Allies invaded France on June 6, 1944

c)

Hitler surrenders to the Allies, commits suicide

d)

400,000 British/French troops were stranded, evacuated

18.

What event officially started World War II?

a)

Assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

Germany’s invasion of Poland

d)

Battle of Britain

19.
In which country did the Bataan Death March take place?
a)
Japan 
b)
India 
c)
The Philippines
d)
The United States
20.
Why did the Japanese finally surrender?
a)
American forces dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki 
b)
America threatened to drop a bomb on Tokyo
c)
American forced dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
d)
The Japanese realized they could not win without Germany
21.
blitzkrieg is the german phrase that means 
a)
lighting war
b)
cold rain