WorksheetsChapter 11 WWII Lessons 3-5
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
What did the United States create to raise an Army during WWII?
The Combat Services Act
The Selective Service Act
The Civil Defense Act
The Uncle Sam Wants You Act
Which of the following cases provided for the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps
Roe versus Wade
FDR versus Truman
Korematsu versus United States
Johnnie Cochran versus the United States
Which of the following men trained at the Tuskegee flying school and became the first African American general in the United States Air Force?
Alan Davis Jr.
Bobby Davis Jr.
Benjamin Davis Jr.
Donnie Davis Jr.
What did the Revenue Act of 1942 require most Americans to do?
Pay a retirement tax
Pay a gas tax
Pay income tax
Pay Social Security tax
Where did the army force Japanese Americans to live during parts of World War II
retirement amps
army camps
labor camps
internment camps
Which group of people served in the WAC, WAVES and WASPS
African Americans
Hispanic Americans
Native American men
women
The Navajo "code talker" soldiers used a code based on their own language for what purpose?
to communicate with other Navajo soldiers
to recruit other soldiers
to send military messages about battle plans
to force other soldiers to learn their language
What did many people do because of rationing?
die of starvation
eat in restaurants
steal food
plant victory gardens
What name did the group of African American pilots go by?
The Tuskegee Airmen
The Blue Angels
The Flying Squadron
The Tuskegee Fighting Fliers
On January 1, 1942, the United States Joined the Axis Powers.
True
False
Concentration camps were large prisons camps used to hold people for political reasons.
False
True
Erwin Rommel was a German general who was nicknamed "The Desert Fox" because of his cunning success in desert warfare.
True
False
The Germans destroyed the city of Leningrad in June of 1941.
False
True
During the war, the Nazis killed as many as 6 million Jews. What has this become known as?
the Holocaust
Kristallnacht
Hitler's Horrors
the Nuremberg laws
What victory prevented the Germans from capturing the Suez Canal?
El Alamein
Normandy
Omaha Beach
The Battle of Stalingrad
Dwight D. Eisenhower landed his Allied troops on the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944. What was this day known as?
The Battle of Leningrad
D-Day
VE Day
The Battle of the Bulge
Which city did the Germans seige for over 900 days?
Leningrad
Moscow
Stalingrad
St. Petersburg
Which German defeat marked a major turning point in the war?
Leningrad
Moscow
Stalingrad
Warsaw
As soon as the Allies took the island of Sicily, the Italians surrendered.
True
False
Who was the Allied commander in the Philippines?
Douglas MacArthur
Erwin Rommel
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Patton
The islands of Wake and Guam were occupied by the Germans?
True
False
Where were the Nazi war criminals tried?
Nuremberg
Paris
New York
Potsdam
V-J Day occurred before the destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
False
True
Four Japanese aircraft carriers and many Japanese planes were destroyed in which of the following battles?
The Battle of Tokyo
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Leyte Gulf
The Allied troops defending Bataan surrendered in April of 1942.
True
False
Where did the United States drop the first Atomic bomb?
Berlin, Germany
Nagasaki, Japan
Ashford, Alabama
Hiroshima, Japan
After the Battle of Midway, the United States adopted a strategy of island hopping.
False
True
Where did American ships destroy most of the Japanese fleet?
The Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Leyte Gulf
The atomic bomb was tested in the New Mexico desert?
True
False
How did the United States raise money to pay for the war?
It raised money through charities
It printed more money
It raised business and individual taxes and sold bonds
It did little to nothing to raise money
What did GI stand for in regards to our military in WWII?
Government Idiots
Government Ideas
Government Issued
Government Independents
Which of the following were not rationed during World War II?
Coffee
Tires and other types of rubber
gas
money
What did children do to aid in the war effort
Took jobs with the government
Had scrap metal and bond drives
Gave up their comic books and video games
Got drafted and served in the war
Which of the following is something women did NOT do to aid the war effort?
Serve in heavy combat areas
Had nursing jobs
Worked in factories
Flew planes in to places for repair jobs
A Japanese pilot who avoided flying his plane into an American ship was called a Kamikaze.
True
False
What was the practice of capturing one land mass in the Pacific Ocean, making a base out of it, and moving to the next called?
Acre shifting
Island Hoping
Island getaway
Island Hopping
What was the name given to the plan to make and eventually employ the Atomic Bomb?
The Manhattan Transfer
The Manhattan Police
The Manhattan Secret
The Manhattan Project
What was the name of the pilot who had a semi-successful air raid over the Japanese city of Tokyo?
Doctor Doolittle
Jimmy Doolittle
Danny Doolittle
Hey Diddle Doodle
What was the name of the item that warned the Japanese to surrender before we dropped the Atomic Bomb?
The Manhattan Project
The Munich Conference
The Potsdam Declaration
The Japanese Jargon
What is the correct day and ship that the Japanese surrender took place during World War II?
Sept. 11, 1942; U.S.S. Alabama
Sept. 4, 1943, U.S.S. Montana
Sept. 2, 1945; U.S.S. Missouri
Sept. 2, 1945; U.S.S. Minnesota
Which of the following questions were NOT part of the Allies?
Japan
United States
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Which of the following countries was NOT part of the Axis powers?
Japan
France
Italy
Germany
Which dictator was overthrown by a combined U.S. and British force that included Generals George Patton and Bernard Montgomery?
Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Who was the commander of the Axis forces in the Northern part of Africa?
George Patton
Erwin Rommel
Bernard Montgomery
Douglas MacArthur
What is the term for the systematic slaughter of a certain ethnicity?
Patrocide
Killocide
Geniecide
Genocide
