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WW2 review

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did WW2 start?

a)

Hitler bombed Pearl Harbor

b)

Many countries were mad at Hitler because he made an nuclear explosion at England

c)

Germany invaded Poland, which led the British and French declare WAR on Germay

d)

Nazi declared war on themselves

2.

Why did the U.S.A get involved in WW2?

a)

the Luftwaffe bombed us

b)

The German's invaded Russia

c)

The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor

d)

The Japanese invaded Hong Kong

3.

Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II?

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Charles de Gaulle

c)

Benito Mussolini

d)

Josef Stalin

4.

The Axis powers were:

a)

Japan, U.S., Russia

b)

Japan, Germany, Soviet Union

c)

Japan, Great Britain, Soviet Union

d)

Germany, Japan, Italy

5.

Japanese Americans were interned as a result of what major event?

a)

Germany invading Poland

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

The Appeasement Policy

d)

the death of Franklin Roosevelt

6.

Which group campaigned for victory in the war and equality at home?

a)

Japanese Americans

b)

Native Americans

c)

African Americans

d)

Women

7.

Why was Japan so unsuccessful in China?

a)

China was too big for them to conquer

b)

The east was easier to conquer

c)

China was too far away for Japan to govern.

d)

Japan did not need the land or resources of China.

8.

Which of the following is a turning point in WW2?

a)

Battle of Midway

b)

Battle of Berlin

c)

Battle of Argonne Forest

d)

Battle of Gettysburg

9.

Which of the following was NOT an Allied power in WW2?

a)

Japan

b)

Soviet Union

c)

France

d)

Great Britian

10.

___ was president for most of WW2.

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Harry Truman

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Dwight Eisenhower

11.

Which project led to the creation of the atomic bomb?

a)

Chicago Project

b)

Manhattan Project

c)

Hiroshima and Nagosaki

d)

Alamogordo Project

12.

In 1941, FDR proclaimed that __ was "a date which will live in infamy."

a)

attack on Pearl Harbor

b)

atomic bomb attack

c)

D-Day

d)

Battle of the Bulge

13.

What led Hitler to believe that European powers would not interfere in his plans for "Anschluss"?

a)

the lack of direct action to stop his militarization of the Rhineland

b)

England and France's lack of support for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War

c)

the Allies' refusal to help Poland

d)

the nonaggression pact he negotiated with them