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Chapter 11 WWII Lessons 3-5

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did the United States create to raise an Army during WWII?

a)

The Combat Services Act

b)

The Selective Service Act

c)

The Civil Defense Act

d)

The Uncle Sam Wants You Act

2.

Which of the following cases provided for the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps

a)

Roe versus Wade

b)

FDR versus Truman

c)

Korematsu versus United States

d)

Johnnie Cochran versus the United States

3.

Which of the following men trained at the Tuskegee flying school and became the first African American general in the United States Air Force?

a)

Alan Davis Jr.

b)

Bobby Davis Jr.

c)

Benjamin Davis Jr.

d)

Donnie Davis Jr.

4.

What did the Revenue Act of 1942 require most Americans to do?

a)

Pay a retirement tax

b)

Pay a gas tax

c)

Pay income tax

d)

Pay Social Security tax

5.

Where did the army force Japanese Americans to live during parts of World War II

a)

retirement amps

b)

army camps

c)

labor camps

d)

internment camps

6.

Which group of people served in the WAC, WAVES and WASPS

a)

African Americans

b)

Hispanic Americans

c)

Native American men

d)

women

7.

The Navajo "code talker" soldiers used a code based on their own language for what purpose?

a)

to communicate with other Navajo soldiers

b)

to recruit other soldiers

c)

to send military messages about battle plans

d)

to force other soldiers to learn their language

8.

What did many people do because of rationing?

a)

die of starvation

b)

eat in restaurants

c)

steal food

d)

plant victory gardens

9.

What name did the group of African American pilots go by?

a)

The Tuskegee Airmen

b)

The Blue Angels

c)

The Flying Squadron

d)

The Tuskegee Fighting Fliers

10.

On January 1, 1942, the United States Joined the Axis Powers.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Concentration camps were large prisons camps used to hold people for political reasons.

a)

False

b)

True

12.

Erwin Rommel was a German general who was nicknamed "The Desert Fox" because of his cunning success in desert warfare.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The Germans destroyed the city of Leningrad in June of 1941.

a)

False

b)

True

14.

During the war, the Nazis killed as many as 6 million Jews. What has this become known as?

a)

the Holocaust

b)

Kristallnacht

c)

Hitler's Horrors

d)

the Nuremberg laws

15.

What victory prevented the Germans from capturing the Suez Canal?

a)

El Alamein

b)

Normandy

c)

Omaha Beach

d)

The Battle of Stalingrad

16.

Dwight D. Eisenhower landed his Allied troops on the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944. What was this day known as?

a)

The Battle of Leningrad

b)

D-Day

c)

VE Day

d)

The Battle of the Bulge

17.

Which city did the Germans seige for over 900 days?

a)

Leningrad

b)

Moscow

c)

Stalingrad

d)

St. Petersburg

18.

Which German defeat marked a major turning point in the war?

a)

Leningrad

b)

Moscow

c)

Stalingrad

d)

Warsaw

19.

As soon as the Allies took the island of Sicily, the Italians surrendered.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Who was the Allied commander in the Philippines?

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

Erwin Rommel

c)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

George Patton

21.

The islands of Wake and Guam were occupied by the Germans?

a)

True

b)

False

22.

Where were the Nazi war criminals tried?

a)

Nuremberg

b)

Paris

c)

New York

d)

Potsdam

23.

V-J Day occurred before the destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

a)

False

b)

True

24.

Four Japanese aircraft carriers and many Japanese planes were destroyed in which of the following battles?

a)

The Battle of Tokyo

b)

The Battle of Midway

c)

The Battle of the Coral Sea

d)

The Battle of the Leyte Gulf

25.

The Allied troops defending Bataan surrendered in April of 1942.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

Where did the United States drop the first Atomic bomb?

a)

Berlin, Germany

b)

Nagasaki, Japan

c)

Ashford, Alabama

d)

Hiroshima, Japan

27.

After the Battle of Midway, the United States adopted a strategy of island hopping.

a)

False

b)

True

28.

Where did American ships destroy most of the Japanese fleet?

a)

The Battle of Guadalcanal

b)

Battle of Okinawa

c)

Battle of Iwo Jima

d)

Battle of Leyte Gulf

29.

The atomic bomb was tested in the New Mexico desert?

a)

True

b)

False

30.

How did the United States raise money to pay for the war?

a)

It raised money through charities

b)

It printed more money

c)

It raised business and individual taxes and sold bonds

d)

It did little to nothing to raise money

31.

What did GI stand for in regards to our military in WWII?

a)

Government Idiots

b)

Government Ideas

c)

Government Issued

d)

Government Independents

32.

Which of the following were not rationed during World War II?

a)

Coffee

b)

Tires and other types of rubber

c)

gas

d)

money

33.

What did children do to aid in the war effort

a)

Took jobs with the government

b)

Had scrap metal and bond drives

c)

Gave up their comic books and video games

d)

Got drafted and served in the war

34.

Which of the following is something women did NOT do to aid the war effort?

a)

Serve in heavy combat areas

b)

Had nursing jobs

c)

Worked in factories

d)

Flew planes in to places for repair jobs

35.

A Japanese pilot who avoided flying his plane into an American ship was called a Kamikaze.

a)

True

b)

False

36.

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?

a)

Acre shifting

b)

Island Hoping

c)

Island getaway

d)

Island Hopping

37.

What was the name given to the plan to make and eventually employ the Atomic Bomb?

a)

The Manhattan Transfer

b)

The Manhattan Police

c)

The Manhattan Secret

d)

The Manhattan Project

38.

What was the name of the pilot who had a semi-successful air raid over the Japanese city of Tokyo?

a)

Doctor Doolittle

b)

Jimmy Doolittle

c)

Danny Doolittle

d)

Hey Diddle Doodle

39.

What was the name of the item that warned the Japanese to surrender before we dropped the Atomic Bomb?

a)

The Manhattan Project

b)

The Munich Conference

c)

The Potsdam Declaration

d)

The Japanese Jargon

40.

What is the correct day and ship that the Japanese surrender took place during World War II?

a)

Sept. 11, 1942; U.S.S. Alabama

b)

Sept. 4, 1943, U.S.S. Montana

c)

Sept. 2, 1945; U.S.S. Missouri

d)

Sept. 2, 1945; U.S.S. Minnesota

41.

Which of the following questions were NOT part of the Allies?

a)

Japan

b)

United States

c)

Great Britain

d)

Soviet Union

42.

Which of the following countries was NOT part of the Axis powers?

a)

Japan

b)

France

c)

Italy

d)

Germany

43.

Which dictator was overthrown by a combined U.S. and British force that included Generals George Patton and Bernard Montgomery?

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Benito Mussolini

d)

Joseph Stalin

44.

Who was the commander of the Axis forces in the Northern part of Africa?

a)

George Patton

b)

Erwin Rommel

c)

Bernard Montgomery

d)

Douglas MacArthur

45.

What is the term for the systematic slaughter of a certain ethnicity?

a)

Patrocide

b)

Killocide

c)

Geniecide

d)

Genocide