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World History Final Exam Review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

All of the following increased during the Great Depression EXCEPT

a)

imports and exports

b)

bank closings

c)

unemployment

d)

business failures

2.

During the global depression, war debts caused great suffering in...

a)

France

b)

Germany

c)

Great Britain

d)

the United States

3.

Which of the following was not a cause of WWII?

a)

Japanese expansionism

b)

the Treaty of Versailles

c)

USSR invasion of Poland

d)

UK and France's appeasement

4.

Which countries were part of the Allied Powers?

a)

UK, France, Italy, US

b)

UK, US, France, USSR

c)

UK, US, Italy, USSR

d)

UK, France, Italy, Japan

5.

Which countries were part of the Axis Powers?

a)

Germany, Italy, Japan, USSR

b)

Germany, France, Italy, Japan

c)

Germany, Ital, USSR

d)

Italy, Japan, Germany

6.

Why was Germany unable to conquer Great Britain?

a)

Great Britain had secured its border with more troops than Germany had.

b)

The English Channel offered a natural barrier, protecting Great Britain.

c)

Germany was unable to advance through France to attack Great Britain.

d)

The US had stationed troops in Great Britain and helped fight back the Germans.

7.

What was the secret of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact?

a)

Germany and the USSR would split Poland

b)

The USSR would help Germany if France and Great Britain attacked Germany

c)

Germany was unable to advance through France to attack Great Britain

d)

The USSR would join the Axis Powers

8.

Why was Mein Kampf significant?

a)

Hitler wrote about his time as a soldier in WWI to encourage Germans to join his army.

b)

Hitler used the profits from the book to help fund WWII.

c)

Hitler predicted a war in Europe that would end with the extermination of Jews in Europe

d)

None of the above.

9.

Which event was Japan's attempt at keeping the US out of WWII?

a)

Battle of Guadalcanal

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Pearl Harbor

10.

Which battle was the last battle of WWII in Europe?

a)

Battle of Stalingrad

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Battle of Berlin

d)

Battle of Britain

11.

Which battle helped President Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan instead of Launching a land invasion?

a)

Battle of Iwo Jima

b)

Battle of Okinawa

c)

Pearl Harbor

d)

Battle of Midway

12.

Where was the site of the first atomic bomb test?

a)

Nashville, TN

b)

University of Chicago

c)

Trinity Site, New Mexico

d)

Hanford, Washington

13.

Why did the US and USSR distrust each other after WWII ended?

a)

The USSR resented the US delay in entering WWII.

b)

The US did not approve of Stalin's rule.

c)

The US was worried about the spread of communism.

d)

all of the above

14.

Great Britain and France entered World War II because of the invasion of...

a)

Poland

b)

Finland

c)

Denmark and Norway

d)

the Baltic States

15.

The Germans first successfully used the blitzkrieg in an attack on

a)

France

b)

Poland

c)

Finland

d)

the Soviet Union

16.

Which group of people were not persecuted during the Holocaust?

a)

Roma

b)

Slavs

c)

Austrian

d)

Jews

17.

All of the following were advantages for the British in fighting the Battle of Britain EXCEPT...

a)

Radar

b)

ENIGMA

c)

British morale

d)

Superior numbers of aircraft

18.

Why were the Pacific Islands attacked and seized during the Allied "island hopping" chosen?

a)

They were isolated and uninhabited

b)

They were farthest away from Japan

c)

They were least heavily defended by Japan

d)

They were former territories of the United States

19.

Who was the supreme commander of the Western Allied forces in Europe?

a)

General George Patton

b)

General Erwin Rommel

c)

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

General Bernard Montgomery

20.

Which of the following occurred on D-Day?

a)

The Allied invasion of Italy

b)

The Allied invasion of France

c)

The Allied invasion of Hiroshima

d)

The Allied invasion of Nagasaki

21.

What was the main target of the kamikazes?

a)

ships

b)

air bases

c)

ground troops

d)

civilian population

22.

Which of the following nations paid the greatest price in terms of the number of lives lost during the war?

a)

Germany

b)

Soviet Union

c)

Japan

d)

France

23.

In which of the following nations was the pre-war government allowed to return to power after the war?

a)

Belgium

b)

Japan

c)

Italy

d)

Germany

24.

What group was tried in the Nuremberg Trials?

a)

Nazis

b)

Communists

c)

the Luftwaffe

d)

war criminals from all the Axis-Powers

25.

Where were atomic bombs dropped?

a)

Tokyo and Hong Kong

b)

Dresden and Berlin

c)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

d)

Leyte Island and Midway

26.

Hitler's main method for achieving lebensraum was to...

a)

attack Jews

b)

conquer other countries

c)

form a secret police force

d)

demand dictatorial power

27.

Nazism was the German form of

a)

fascism

b)

socialism

c)

communism

d)

a coalition government

28.

In the 1940s and 1950s, what did the region described as being "behind the iron curtain" include?

a)

Soviet Union only

b)

Soviet Union and its satellite nations

c)

democratic nations of Western Europe

d)

Germany Democratic Republic, or East Germany

29.

Which two groups fought a civil war in China both before and after World War II?

a)

the peasants and the middle class

b)

the warlords and the emperor

c)

that nationalists and the Communists

d)

the socialists and the nationalists

30.

Which country became divided due to Cold War influences?

a)

Spain

b)

Germany

c)

Austria

d)

United Kingdom