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WWII (World)

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Where did WW2 take place? 
a)
Europe 
b)
The Pacific islands
c)
North Africa 
d)
All of the above 
2.
Three countries that became very aggressive in the 1930s and 1940s were…
a)
Germany, Italy and Soviet Union
b)
Germany, Italy and France
c)
Germany, Italy and Japan
3.
Benito Mussolini led which country during World War II?
a)
Italy
b)
Japan
c)
Soviet Union
d)
France
4.
Hideki Tojo led which country's military during World War II?
a)
Italy
b)
Soviet Union
c)
Japan
d)
United States
5.
Who was the leader of the the Soviet Union during WWII?
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
Benito Mussolini
c)
Mikhail Gorbachev
d)
Joseph Stalin
6.
Which man was elected President 4 times, and served during the Great Depression and WWII?
a)
Franklin Roosevelt
b)
Harry Truman
c)
Dwight Eisenhower
d)
John F Kennedy
7.
What caused the U.S. to enter World War II?
a)
Germany invading Poland
b)
Sinking of the Lusitania
c)
Attack on Pearl Harbor
d)
France being taken over
8.
Where did Hitler take over?
a)
France
b)
Poland
c)
Czechoslovakia
d)
All of the above
9.
name of the genocide against the Jews by the Nazis
a)
Holocaust
b)
Night of Broken Glass
c)
Great Purge
d)
Great Leap Forward
10.
Who won the war?
a)
Axis Powers
b)
Allied Powers
11.
Who were forced to leave their homes and move to internment camps? 
a)
African Americans 
b)
Native Americans 
c)
Japanese Americans  
d)
Jews 
12.
Why was D-Day important? 
a)
Germany surrendered 
b)
The Allied powers were unsuccessful
c)
Adolf Hitler passed away 
d)
Nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers invaded northern France 
13.
In May 1945 when Soviet soldiers forced Germany to surrender is called _____? 
a)
V-E Day 
b)
Independence Day 
c)
Victory Day 
d)
D-Day
14.
The two different strategies the Allies used to defeat Japan, were 
a)
island skipping and code talkers 
b)
island capturing and decoding 
c)
spies and island to island 
d)
island hoppers and code markers 
15.
What  was one of the islands Japan capture while island hopping? 
a)
Iwo Jima 
b)
Hawaii 
c)
Pacific 
d)
Germany 
16.
How many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust?
a)
1 million
b)
6 million
c)
100'000
d)
60 million
17.
What does the term "Final Solution" mean?
a)
Germany's plan to send all the Jews to Israel
b)
Hitler's plan to commit suicide
c)
Hitler's plan to kill all the Jews in Germany
d)
Hitler's plan to move all Jews to the U.S.
18.
Hostility to or prejudice against Jews is known as
a)
Pro-Judaism
b)
Anti-Judaism
c)
Anti-Jewishism
d)
Anti-Semitism
19.
Which Jews were spared during the Holocaust?
a)
Women
b)
Old Men
c)
Children
d)
None of the above
20.
Certain sections of cities were set aside to imprison Jews, these sections were called
a)
apartments
b)
projects
c)
ghettos
d)
government housing
21.
What did Jewish people in Nazi controlled areas have to wear to identify them as Jews?
a)
a yellow star of David
b)
a sign that said Jew
c)
Black clothes
d)
A yellow cross
22.
What was the name of the largest death camp located in Poland?
a)
Auschwitz
b)
Bergen-Belsen
c)
Belzec
d)
Treblinka
23.
What was the purpose of the Nuremburg trials?
a)
to try the Japanese for their secret attack on Pearl Harbor
b)
to show the world that the Nazi leaders were guilty of crimes against humanity
c)
to punish the Italians for their totalitarian rule over France
d)
to punish the Soviets for their invasion of Germany
24.

Who were "Japanese kamikazes"?

a)

Japanese military who committed suicide to succeed in missions

b)

An official title given to the ranking military leaders

c)

Experienced pilots who had authority to drop the bombs

d)

The name of the bombs that they took to Pearl Harbor

25.

Appeasement

a)

The act of giving in to an enemy's demands in hopes of avoiding conflict.

b)

Area of western Czechoslovakia that contained many ethnic Germans; Hitler demanded it be turned over to Germany

c)

Allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country

d)

Certificates sold by the United States government to pay for the war.

26.

Battle of Midway

a)

Organization established near the end of the WW2 to guarantee international peace and security through permanent diplomacy.

b)

Two Japanese cities devastated by atomic bombs dropped by the US in an attempt to end the Second World War.

c)

It was the decisive turning point in the Pacific War as the Allies won basically all of the battles in the Pacific after it.

d)

June 6, 1944, the day on which Allied forces landed in Normandy, France to begin a massive offensive against the Germans and the occupied territory of Europe.

27.

Japanese forced U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war to undertake a 60 mile march through the jungle. Prisoners faced starvation, disease, and dehydration.

a)

Bootin Din March

b)

Butin Martyrs

c)

Bataan Death March

d)

Boston Death March

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