WorksheetsFighting in World War II Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 27mins
The U.S. strategy to only capture key islands as they work closer to an invasion of Japan.
Island Hopping
Blitzkrieg
Trench Warfare
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
An event that turns a conflict in your favor.
Draft
Rationing
Turning Point
Kamikazes
Their job was to drop behind enemy lines and wait until the invasion began to seize key bridges to prevent further reinforcements from reaching the beach.
Dough Boys
Paratroopers
Kamikazes
Funnies
Which of the following propaganda types BEST describes the shown picture?
Bandwagon
Euphemism
Glittering Generalities
Fear
Which of the following propaganda types BEST describes the shown picture?
Name-calling
Bandwagon
Euphemism
Testimonial
Formally known as Operation Overlord, this was the Allies’ plan to attack the beaches of Normandy to retake Europe.
Battle of Midway
Battle of Stalingrad
D-Day Invasion
Battle of Iwo Jima
General Dwight D. Eisenhower said this quote before the D-Day Invasion: “Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well equipped, and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.” He was referring to fighting against the _______.
Germans
Japanese
Italians
British
Which of these Allied generals promised to return to save the Philippines and the rest of ASIA from the Japanese?
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
General Douglass MacArthur
General Bernard Montgomery
General George S. Patton
True or False: The Americans agreed that defeating Hitler should be the top Allied priority in the war.
True
False
True or False: The weapon that ultimately made the Japanese surrender was the use of incendiary bombs.
True
False
Complete this analogy: Adolf Hitler is to the European theater of war as _________ is to the Pacific theater of war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
D-Day
Hideki Tojo
Paratroopers
Complete this analogy: Battle of Iwo Jima is to the Pacific theater of war as __________ is to the European theater of war.
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Midway
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Coral Sea
Which of the following battles was first battle in history when both opposing navies never fought each other directly?
D-Day Invasion
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Stalingrad
As mentioned in class, why was an American general chosen to lead the D-Day invasion?
Lend-Lease Act
Draft
Executive Order 9066
Rationing
Which Native American language was used by the U.S. Navy to code our messages?
Apache
Navajo
Comanche
Sioux
Which of the following weapons MOST LIKELY responsible for this to happen:
atomic bombs
incendiary bombs
aircraft carriers
Pershing tank
Which of these U.S. presidents ordered the dropping of the first atomic weapons on Japan which ended WWII.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
What was the capital of this Axis country?
United States
Japan
Great Britain
France
The process of persuading a group of people to adopt a certain idea or belief.
Rationing
Propaganda
Draft
Anti-semitism
Japanese fighters trained for suicide missions in which they would fly the aircraft into an enemy ship on purpose.
Kamikazes
Paratroopers
Blitzkrieg
Navajo Indians
