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WWII TEKS

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The government issues ration books during World War II in order to -

a)

provide financial security for uninsured citizens

b)

provide a safeguard against Saruman and Isengard

c)

ensure the fair distribution of scarce goods

d)

allow consumers to buy imported goods at discounted rates

2.

Which statement best describes how WWII affected the home front in the United States?

a)

Gasoline was rationed, Victory Gardens planted, women worked

b)

People fled to the underground fortress of Helm's Deep

c)

Production declined and blacks were denied military service

d)

Unemployment increased, businesses collapsed, farms failed

3.

Which government agency was created to design poster like the one shown?

a)

Office of War Information

b)

King Theoden's Riders of Rohan

c)

Civilian Conservation Corps

d)

Securities and Exchange Commission

4.

Which of the following is an example of appeasement?

a)

the U.S. Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937

b)

the conquest of Poland in 1939

c)

the entry of the U.S. into WWII in 1941

d)

Britain and France giving Germany the Sudetenland in 1938

5.

Which event occurred on December 7th, 1941, and forced the US into WWII?

a)

D-Day

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Pearl Harbor

d)

Kardashian-West Alliance

6.

In post-WWI Europe, troubled economic times led to which of the following?

a)

Advances in aviation

b)

Rise of dictators

c)

Concern for global warming

d)

The Roaring Twenties

7.

Who is describe in the picture?

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Harry Potter

c)

Winston Chirchill

d)

Neville Champerlain

8.

The aid from the Lend-Lease Act was provided to

a)

help the Allied powers fight the Axis powers

b)

persuade other nations to join the United Nations

c)

provide technical assistance to developing nations

d)

persuade other nations to pay their debts to the U.S.

9.

The poster shown was created during WWII to encourage women to -

a)

buy war bonds

b)

go back to the kitchen

c)

exercise their vote

d)

contribute to the war effort by working

10.

Victory Gardens were used by Americans during WWII as a way to -

a)

ensure adequate supplies of scarce natural resources

b)

increase the number of exports

c)

raise more food for home consumption

d)

provide markets for American-made products

11.

Which top-secret project featured scientists attempting to develop an atomic bomb?

a)

Manhattan Project

b)

Brooklyn Project

c)

Bronx Project

d)

Operation Big Bomb

12.

Which of the following were considered the Axis Powers during WWII?

a)

Germany, Italy, China

b)

Germany, Hungary, Japan

c)

Germany, Italy, Japan

d)

Vulcan, Narnia, Middle-Earth

13.

Which of the following leaders is closely associated with Fascism?

a)

Mussolini

b)

Stalin

c)

Hitler

d)

Tojo

14.

In what year did World War II begin?

a)

1941

b)

1939

c)

1920

d)

1945

15.

These are debt securities issued by the government for the purpose of financing military operations -

a)

Victory Gardens

b)

Propaganda

c)

War Bonds

d)

Rationing

16.

Which of the answers paved the way for the forced relocation of US citizens of Japanese descent?

a)

Executive Order 8022

b)

Kristallnacht

c)

Executive Order 9066

d)

The Prime Directive

17.

Intimidation, anger over the Treaty of Versailles, and the use of Jews as scapegoats caused the -

a)

Nazis to rise to power in Germany

b)

United States to declare a policy of neutrality

c)

military to seek power in Japan

d)

Soviet Union to annex Poland

18.

Which organization would have utilized the poster shown to encourage women in the workforce?

a)

Congressional Office for Persuasion

b)

U.S. Department of Communications

c)

Presidential Department of Miscommunication

d)

U.S. Office of War Information

19.

As the Army Chief of Staff, he was responsible for planning the war from Washington D.C.

a)

Dwight D. Eisnehower

b)

Douglas MacArthur

c)

George Patton

d)

George Marshall

20.

Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?

a)

US pilots who volunteered for the Chinese Air Force.

b)

African-American pilots who flew escort missions in WWII

c)

The original nine people tasked with destroying the ring

d)

Native Americans whose language became an unbreakable code

21.

Why was the Battle of Midway significant?

a)

It was the first Allied defeat in the Pacific Theater.

b)

Patton and his 3rd Army routed Rommel's Panzer divisions

c)

It stopped the advance of Imperial Japan in the Pacific

d)

After losing the battle, Hitler committed suicide

22.

The last Nazi offensive of WWII was known as the -

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

D-Day

c)

Battle of Helm's Deep

d)

Battle of El-Alamein

23.

Which two cities did the U.S. bomb with atomic weapons during WWII?

a)

Berlin and Munich

b)

Stalingrad and Moscow

c)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

d)

Mos Eisley and Cloud City

24.

American and Filipino soldiers were brutally forced to march 60 miles in an event known as the -

a)

Auschwitz Death March

b)

Bataan Death March

c)

Dachau Death March

d)

Nanking Death March

25.

The largest amphibious assault in human history occurred during WWII and is known as -

a)

The Battle of Leyte Gulf

b)

The Battle of Inchon

c)

The Invasion of Palermo

d)

D-Day