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WorksheetsWorld War II Review
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
Joseph Stalin...
Came to support of U.S. troops at Battle of the Bulge
Ally of Hitler; led first fascist government in Italy
Took over Soviet Union after Lenin's death in 1924
Developed a fanatical following in Germany after WW1
Adolf Hitler...
Came to support of U.S. troops at Battle of the Bulge
Ally of Hitler; led first fascist government in Italy
Took over Soviet Union after Lenin's death in 1924
Developed a fanatical following in Germany after WW1
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Came to support of U.S. troops at Battle of the Bulge
He decided when D-Day would begin
Took over Soviet Union after Lenin's death in 1924
He told Congress that Dec. 7, 1941 would "live in infamy"
George Patton...
Came to support of U.S. troops at Battle of the Bulge
He decided when D-Day would begin
Took over Soviet Union after Lenin's death in 1924
He promised to return to the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines
Winston Churchill...
He famously vowed to "never surrender" to Germany's air attacks
He decided when D-Day would begin
Took over Soviet Union after Lenin's death in 1924
He promised to return to the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines
Dwight Eisenhower...
He famously vowed to "never surrender" to Germany's air attacks
He decided when D-Day would begin
Took over Soviet Union after Lenin's death in 1924
He promised to return to the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines
Harry Truman
Stopped Rommel's tanks from the Suez Canal at El Alamein
This vice president felt a heavy burden after Roosevelt died
Took over Soviet Union after Lenin's death in 1924
He promised to return to the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines
Bernard Montgomery...
Stopped Rommel's tanks from the Suez Canal at El Alamein
This vice president felt a heavy burden after Roosevelt died
Took over Soviet Union after Lenin's death in 1924
He promised to return to the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines
Nazi "Final Solution" referred to their plans to...
Defeat France
Conquer Britain
Exterminate Europe's Jews
Rule Europe after conquering it
Air battle between Germany and Great Britain that began in June 1940 and last into the fall of 1940 is known as
Blitzkrieg
Battle of Britain
Munich Crisis
Battle of El Alamein
This all-minority group of U.S. veterans used their unique oral language to send coded messages during key Pacific Theater battles.
Nisei Soldiers
Tuskegee Airmen
Navajo-Code Talkers
Mexican-American Sailors
Strategy of "island hopping"
was used by the Japanese to defeat Americans
was used by the U.S. to capture important islands close to Japan
was used by Germany to control all of Europe
was used by Hitler in an attempted invasion of Great Britain
On June 6, 1944 (D-Day/Normandy), allied forces carrying more than 100,000 soldiers set sail for the coast of
Northern Africa
the Philippines
Japn
France
In 1941, FDR began sending lend-lease aid to
China
Britain
the Philippines
France
What specific event brought the U.S. into World War II?
Zimmerman Telegram
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Sinking of the Lusitania
German persecution of the Jews
In 1942, FDR declared most of the West Coast of the U.S. a military zone and all people of Japanese ancestry were ordered to relocate to
Japan
Internment Camps
Hawaii
the East Coast
The U.S. mainly argued that it used the atomic bomb on Japan because
it would save the lives of Americans and Japanese
Japan would have used it on us if we hadn't used it
it was necessary to punish Japan for Pearl Harbor
The Bataan Death March occurred in
the Philippines
North Africa
Manchuria
Soviet Union
FDR sent destroyers (ships) to Britain in exchange for
cash
a promise to pay at war's end
U.S. bases on British-held territory
manufactured British goods
A key to U.S. success at the Battle of Midway was
Use of new sonar and radar technology
U.S. translators breaking Japanese secret code
Use of bomber planes
American submarines
Location American military planners chose to invade in order to collect supplies and build up troops for an invasion of Japan
Hiroshima
Iwo Jim
Okinawa
Midway
Iwo Jima was important to the American military because
Japanese were using it as a base to attack the U.S. fleet
U.S. fighter planes could refuel and accompany bombers from there
the Islands were an important link in the Japanese supply lines
What did the Nuremberg Trials emphasize?
new weaponry
humane treatment of prisoners
following orders
individual responsibility
