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WorksheetsWorld History Final Exam Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 17mins
All of the following increased during the Great Depression EXCEPT
imports and exports
bank closings
unemployment
business failures
During the global depression, war debts caused great suffering in...
France
Germany
Great Britain
the United States
Which of the following was not a cause of WWII?
Japanese expansionism
the Treaty of Versailles
USSR invasion of Poland
UK and France's appeasement
Which countries were part of the Allied Powers?
UK, France, Italy, US
UK, US, France, USSR
UK, US, Italy, USSR
UK, France, Italy, Japan
Which countries were part of the Axis Powers?
Germany, Italy, Japan, USSR
Germany, France, Italy, Japan
Germany, Ital, USSR
Italy, Japan, Germany
Why was Germany unable to conquer Great Britain?
Great Britain had secured its border with more troops than Germany had.
The English Channel offered a natural barrier, protecting Great Britain.
Germany was unable to advance through France to attack Great Britain.
The US had stationed troops in Great Britain and helped fight back the Germans.
What was the secret of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact?
Germany and the USSR would split Poland
The USSR would help Germany if France and Great Britain attacked Germany
Germany was unable to advance through France to attack Great Britain
The USSR would join the Axis Powers
Why was Mein Kampf significant?
Hitler wrote about his time as a soldier in WWI to encourage Germans to join his army.
Hitler used the profits from the book to help fund WWII.
Hitler predicted a war in Europe that would end with the extermination of Jews in Europe
None of the above.
Which event was Japan's attempt at keeping the US out of WWII?
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Midway
Pearl Harbor
Which battle was the last battle of WWII in Europe?
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Berlin
Battle of Britain
Which battle helped President Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan instead of Launching a land invasion?
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway
Where was the site of the first atomic bomb test?
Nashville, TN
University of Chicago
Trinity Site, New Mexico
Hanford, Washington
Why did the US and USSR distrust each other after WWII ended?
The USSR resented the US delay in entering WWII.
The US did not approve of Stalin's rule.
The US was worried about the spread of communism.
all of the above
Great Britain and France entered World War II because of the invasion of...
Poland
Finland
Denmark and Norway
the Baltic States
The Germans first successfully used the blitzkrieg in an attack on
France
Poland
Finland
the Soviet Union
Which group of people were not persecuted during the Holocaust?
Roma
Slavs
Austrian
Jews
All of the following were advantages for the British in fighting the Battle of Britain EXCEPT...
Radar
ENIGMA
British morale
Superior numbers of aircraft
Why were the Pacific Islands attacked and seized during the Allied "island hopping" chosen?
They were isolated and uninhabited
They were farthest away from Japan
They were least heavily defended by Japan
They were former territories of the United States
Who was the supreme commander of the Western Allied forces in Europe?
General George Patton
General Erwin Rommel
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
General Bernard Montgomery
Which of the following occurred on D-Day?
The Allied invasion of Italy
The Allied invasion of France
The Allied invasion of Hiroshima
The Allied invasion of Nagasaki
What was the main target of the kamikazes?
ships
air bases
ground troops
civilian population
Which of the following nations paid the greatest price in terms of the number of lives lost during the war?
Germany
Soviet Union
Japan
France
In which of the following nations was the pre-war government allowed to return to power after the war?
Belgium
Japan
Italy
Germany
What group was tried in the Nuremberg Trials?
Nazis
Communists
the Luftwaffe
war criminals from all the Axis-Powers
Where were atomic bombs dropped?
Tokyo and Hong Kong
Dresden and Berlin
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Leyte Island and Midway
Hitler's main method for achieving lebensraum was to...
attack Jews
conquer other countries
form a secret police force
demand dictatorial power
Nazism was the German form of
fascism
socialism
communism
a coalition government
In the 1940s and 1950s, what did the region described as being "behind the iron curtain" include?
Soviet Union only
Soviet Union and its satellite nations
democratic nations of Western Europe
Germany Democratic Republic, or East Germany
Which two groups fought a civil war in China both before and after World War II?
the peasants and the middle class
the warlords and the emperor
that nationalists and the Communists
the socialists and the nationalists
Which country became divided due to Cold War influences?
Spain
Germany
Austria
United Kingdom
