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WWII Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The United States began to emerge from the Great Depression as a result of

a)

Freezing rent and prices

b)

Producing goods for the Allied Forces

c)

Increasing production of consumer goods

d)

Allocating raw materials

2.

The goal of the Manhattan Project was to

a)

Develop an atomic bomb

b)

Devise a strategy for invading Japan

c)

Build eight new aircraft carriers

d)

Defend New York City from submarine attacks

3.

An important strategy used by German forces in Europe was

a)

Island Hopping

b)

Kamikaze Attacks

c)

Blitzkrieg

d)

The Bataan Death March

4.

The Germans were finally halted in their advance into the Soviet Union at

a)

The Battle of the Bulge

b)

The Battle of Midway

c)

The Battle of Stalingrad

d)

Normandy

5.

Which of these groups were NOT taken to concentration camps?

a)

Jews

b)

Aryans

c)

Communists

d)

Homosexuals

6.

When the League of Nations let Hitler keep some of the land he took over as long as he promised not to expand any farther, this was called:

a)

The Selective Service Act

b)

Appeasement

c)

Blitzkrieg

d)

Aggression

7.

Which of the following is NOT a form of totalitarianism?

a)

Dictatorship

b)

Nazism

c)

Communism

d)

Democracy

8.

At the time, which of the following was NOT an official reason given for Japanese Internment?

a)

Many Japanese could be spies for the Japanese Empire

b)

The Japanese living in California live too close to the Japanese mainland

c)

Americans had just been prejudiced and needed a reason to better segregate the Japanese

d)

The Japanese live too close to America's military bases

9.

The main Axis powers of WWII consisted of:

a)

Germany, Japan, Italy

b)

Germany, Soviet Union, Italy

c)

Germany, Soviet Union, France

d)

Germany, Japan, France

10.

What was the Lend-Lease Act?

a)

A statement of war goals created by Roosevelt and Churchill

b)

A non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union

c)

A policy allowing the President to provide arms to foreign allies

d)

An order to shoot German U-boats on sight

11.

Army General Douglas MacArthur struggled unsuccessfully to hold who against the Japanese forces?

a)

Guam

b)

The Philippines

c)

New Guinea

d)

Hawaii

12.

After the war, the United States helped to establish

a)

The Geneva Convention

b)

The Nuremberg Trials

c)

The League of Nations

d)

The United Nations

13.

The systematic torture and murder of 6 million Jews and other undesirables by the Nazis is called:

a)

Aryan

b)

Concentration Camps

c)

Holocaust

d)

Hitler Youth

14.

Giving names or symbols to the classifications. Distinguishing people by colors or dress and applying symbols to group members.

a)

Swastika

b)

Symbolization

c)

Classification

d)

Star of David

15.

Dislike or hatred towards Jews

a)

Ghetto

b)

Genocide

c)

Anti-Semitism

d)

Denial

16.

Brought morale to the American people.

a)

Doolittle's Raid

b)

Bataan Death March

c)

D-Day

d)

Battle of the Bulge

17.

The deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.

a)

Holocaust

b)

Genocide

c)

Bracero Program

d)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

18.

Segregating into distinct groups that will not be able to compromise.

a)

Symbolization

b)

Denial

c)

Polarization

d)

Organization

19.

The Japanese prime minister.

a)

Harry S. Truman

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Hideki Tojo

d)

Robert Oppenheimer

20.

Who suggested to FDR that he should consider developing atomic weapons?

a)

Hideki Tojo

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Robert Oppenheimer