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World War II Section 1&2 Openbook quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This is a type of government where a a single party controls the government and every aspect of the lives of the people.

a)

democracy

b)

theocracy

c)

totalitarian

d)

monarchy

2.

A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.

a)

socialism

b)

militarism

c)

nationalism

d)

communism

3.

In 1936 Germany and Italy formed an alliance which became known as what?

a)

Triple Alliance

b)

Triple Entente

c)

Axis Powers

d)

Allied Powers

4.

In this agreement Germany received part of Czechoslovakia in return for agreeing not to take any more territory.

a)

Treaty of Paris

b)

Rome Berlin Tokyo Axis

c)

Townshend Act

d)

Munich Agreement

5.

Another name for "Lighting war", a typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939.

a)

blitzkrieg

b)

trench warfare

c)

divide and conquer

d)

total war

6.

Give the month, day and year that the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

a)

July 14, 1941

b)

November 11, 1940

c)

December 7, 1941

d)

June 6, 1944

7.

This act allowed the sale or loan of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S

a)

Embargo Act

b)

Neutrality Act

c)

Civil Defense Act

d)

Lend-Lease Act

8.

Name the alliance which consisted of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France.

a)

Quadruple Entente

b)

Allied Powers

c)

Axis Powers

d)

Triple Alliance

9.

During this event in 1938, the Nazi’s destroyed more than 200 synagogues and 7000 shops and homes of Jews.

a)

Night of Broken Pottery

b)

Bloody Sunday

c)

Diaspora

d)

Kristallnacht

10.

He was the fascist leader of Italy.

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Emperor Hirohito

c)

Adolph Hitler

d)

Joseph Stalin

11.

In 1928 this Pact was signed, and 62 nations agreed to stay out of war except in cases of self-defense.

a)

Munich Pact

b)

Washington Naval Conference

c)

Kellogg-Briand Pact

d)

Navigation Acts

12.

This is a policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war.

a)

neutrality

b)

appeasement

c)

militarism

d)

nationalism

13.

This was Hitler’s book which became the basis of Nazi goals and ideology.

a)

Wealth of Nations

b)

Little Red Book

c)

War and Peace

d)

Mein Kampf

14.

German troops trapped more than 338,000 French, British and Belgian soldiers at this French port on the English Channel.

a)

Dunkirk

b)

Midway

c)

Normandy

d)

Calais

15.

The United States Policy before World War II can be best described as what?

a)

Isolationism

b)

Militarism

c)

Pacifism

d)

Communism

16.

Japan's goal was expansionism. In 1931 they invaded this area in Northern China

a)

Burma

b)

Manchuria

c)

The Philippines

d)

Mongolia

17.

Hitler's National Socialist German Workers Party was better known as what?

a)

Communist Party

b)

Nazi Party

c)

Fascists Party

d)

Federalist Party

18.

By 1936 Italy had invaded what African nation?

a)

Nigeria

b)

South Africa

c)

Egypt

d)

Ethiopia

19.

The Munich Agreement allowed Hitler to take over this German speaking area of Czechoslovakia.

a)

Sudetenland

b)

Alsace-Lorraine

c)

Normandy

d)

Constantinople

20.

Hitler played on anti-Semitic feelings against what group?

a)

Chinese

b)

French

c)

Jews

d)

Muslims