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WorksheetsWWII Urkofsky
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 27mins
Which of the following is a reason that Stalin signed the nonaggression pact with Hitler?
Britain wanted to join forces with Hitler.
Poland had declared war on the Soviet Union.
Stalin wanted to bring communism into Germany.
The West had excluded Stalin from the Munich Conference.
Why did the Allies need to be rescued at Dunkirk?
The Nazis had invaded Poland.
The Nazis had taken over Paris.
The Nazis had resorted to blitzkrieg.
The Nazis had backed them to the sea.
What strategy allowed the Germans to achieve remarkable military success at the beginning of World War II?
blitzkrieg
counterattack
the Schlieffen Plan
submarine warfare
By the summer of 1941, what nation was the last holdout against Germany’s complete domination of Europe?
Belgium
France
Great Britain
Italy
What did Hitler plan to do first in his attack against Great Britain?
destroy London
send in ground troops
disable the Royal Air Force
surround the island nation with warships
What did Hitler plan to do first in his attack against Great Britain?
destroy London
send in ground troops
disable the Royal Air Force
surround the island nation with warships
Which of the following is a way that the United States tried to stop Japan’s aggression in the Pacific?
The United States cut off oil shipments to Japan.
The United States sent its entire naval fleet to the Philippines.
The United States broke the Japanese code used to send secret messages.
The United States planned attacks on British and Dutch colonies in the Pacific region.
Why did Hitler decide to temporarily turn his attention away from Great Britain in late 1940?
The Italians wanted to take over France.
The Americans had promised to help the British.
The British had put up too much of a resistance.
The Soviets had betrayed him on the eastern border.
What is one reason that the Japanese wanted to conquer the Dutch East Indies?
The area was rich in natural resources.
The area was a gateway to the South Pacific.
The area was home to many native Japanese.
The area was the home of the British naval fleet.
After Japan’s attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, the United States
became even more determined to stay out of the war.
began arms shipments to China to help them fight the Japanese.
entered World War II on the side of the Allies.
imposed a trade embargo against Japan.
How was the Battle of the Coral Sea a different type of naval warfare?
Airplanes from aircraft carriers attacked the ships.
Submarines sent nuclear bombs toward the battleships.
Land-to-sea missiles were sent from faraway shores to strike the ships.
Radar on submarines was used to detect where the ships at sea were located.
Why did the Allied forces need to act quickly in their attack on Guadalcanal?
The Japanese were establishing industries there.
The Japanese were building a huge air base there.
The Japanese were starting to set up colonies there.
The Japanese were holding Allied prisoners of war there.
What was Hitler’s first plan to rid Germany of its Jewish population?
He wanted to isolate the Jews in ghettos.
He wanted the Jews to emigrate to other places.
He wanted to destroy Jewish shops and businesses.
He wanted the Jews to be exterminated in concentration camps.
The Nazi “final solution” was a plan to
develop and use the atomic bomb.
exterminate the Jews of Europe.
launch spy satellites into space.
overthrow Stalin in the Soviet Union.
What was the key element of the Final Solution?
The Nazis built gas chambers in the extermination camps.
The Nazis forced the Jews to work seven days a week as slaves.
The Nazis reduced the food supply of the Jews in the labor camps.
The Nazis forced the men and women to be separated from each other.
What strategy did Stalin want the other Allied forces to follow in Europe in 1943?
He wanted them to invade France first.
He wanted them to send troops to Africa.
He wanted them to attack Germany in Berlin.
He wanted them to remove Mussolini from power.
During World War II, how did the United States government try to conserve precious resources for the war effort?
More airplanes were built than before the war.
Children were encouraged to save their pennies.
The speed limit was lowered to 35 miles per hour.
Typewriter companies made armor-piercing shells.
The Battle of the Bulge in Belgium marked Germany’s
first use of blitzkrieg tactics.
last offensive of the war.
final triumph over the Soviets.
conquest of France.
Why was the Battle of the Bulge so important to the Allies in World War II?
The Allies were able to reclaim Paris from the Nazis.
The Italians were free from having Mussolini as their leader.
The Nazis were finally pushed out of the Soviet Union’s territory.
The war in Europe quickly came to an end after the Allies won this battle.
What did the battles fought on Okinawa show the Allied forces?
The war with Japan would be over quickly.
The Japanese were reluctant to use kamikaze pilots.
The Japanese people would not go down without a fight.
The islands of Japan were too isolated to be fought individually
Japan surrendered in August, 1945, because the United States
captured the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
threatened to use the atomic bomb.
took Tokyo, the Japanese capital.
Historians estimate that the number of people killed in World War II, including civilians, may be as high as
500.000.
2 million.
60 million.
1 billion.
What was one reason that famine took the lives of thousands in Europe after the war ended?
The farmlands had all been destroyed.
Food could not reach the people in the cities.
People spent their money on war bonds instead of food.
All of the continent’s farmers had died in the concentration camps.
Why did the Communist Party briefly become popular in Italy and France at the end of World War II?
People were looking for a change in government.
People were worried that their leaders had fascist inclinations.
People were afraid that their old way of life would never resume.
People were hoping that their economy would recover without capitalism.
At the Nuremberg Trials, the Allies tried 22 Nazi leaders for
associating with Hitler.
manslaughter.
violation of the Geneva Conventions.
war crimes.
What did MacArthur do in Japan to help address the needs of Japan’s economy?
He broadened land ownership.
He allowed absentee landlords to buy more land.
He limited the participation of farmers in the new government.
He set up a program by which the government could give away land to farmers.
Why did Japan need to have continued U.S. military presence after the U.S. occupation officially ended?
Japan had no armed forces.
Japan had few natural resources.
Japan was a small nation geographically.
Japan wanted to become a constitutional monarchy.
