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WorksheetsWorld War II HMH Lesson 7- The end of World War 2
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Module 11 Lesson 7 ( Lesson Opener) - Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell (pictured Here) served as second-in-command of the Manhattan Project. Early on the morning of July 16, 1945, Farrell and other key figures gathered at White Sands in the remote New Mexico desert to witness the first official test of what?
Tomahawk missle
Stealth Jet fighter
The First Atomic bomb
Armored Tank
Module 11 WWII- Lesson 7 (The Allies Liberate Europe)
"We saw emaciated men whose thighs were smaller than wrists, many had bones sticking out through their skin. . . . Also we saw hundreds of burned and naked bodies. . . . That evening I wrote my wife that ‘For the first time I truly realized the evil of Hitler and why this war had to be waged.’”
—Robert T. Johnson
quoted in Voices: Letters from World War II
What is Johnson referring to in the passage above?
War on the front lines
The Battle of the Bulge
Victums of Atomic weapons
The horrors of the Nazi Death camps of the Holocaust
Module 11 WWII- Lesson 7 (The Allies Liberate Europe)
The Big Three, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Yalta, Russia to discuss what?
The fate of Germany and the post war world, now that Germany was all but beaten.
The Fate of the Soviet Union now that they had surrendered to Germany
How Europe will pay the U.S. the war debts it owes
To decide what country would pay for the war
Module 11 WWII- Lesson 7 (The Allies Liberate Europe)
What does this image represent?
VE Day - Victory in Europe Day
VJ Day- Victory in Japan Day
VG Day- Victory in Germany Day
Module 11 - Lesson 7 (The atomic Bomb ends the war in the pacific)
What was the main reason Truman decided to use the Atomic Bomb on Japan?
Japan was about to invade the U.S. again in 1945
Truman believed an invasion of Japan would be more difficult and cost more lives
He didn't drop the bomb on Japan
He dropped the bomb because he felt it would demonstrate U.S. power to the world
Module 11 - Lesson 7 (The Atomic Bomb Ends the war) - watch the video "The Atomic Bomb"
Many believe one of the reasons for dropping the Atomic Bomb was...
To give the U.S. more power of negotiation over Russia after the war.
The U.S. Abandoned its Humanitarian ideals
The U.S. wanted the world to fear it's military
The U.S. wanted to make more weapons like this but need to prove it worked
Module 11 - Lesson 7 (The Challenges of victory)
On April 25, 1945, the representatives of 50 nations met in San Francisco to establish this new peacekeeping body.
The League of Nations
The United Nations
NATO
NAFTA
Module 11 - Lesson 7 (The Challenges of victory)
It was clear to Truman at the Potsdam conference near Berlin that..
Russia and the US would be at odds with each other in the post war years
Russia and the US were solid allies after the war
Great Britain would not be a part of the negotiations
The world would be at peace because the Big Three all agreed on how the post war world would look
Module 11- Lesson 7 (The Challenges of Victory)
At the Nuremberg trials, the defendants included Hitler’s most trusted party officials, government ministers, military leaders, and powerful industrialists. Which of these was NOT a crime they were being accused of?
Crimes against peace
Crimes against Humanity
War Crimes
Crimes against nature
Module 11- Lesson 7 (Changes on the Home Front)
Which of the following is true about the United States after the war
The United States continued to experience economic hardship like in the Great Depression
Nothing really changed in the U.S. as a result of WWII
The U.S. became the second most powerful economic and military nation behind Russia
At the end of World War II, the U.S. emerged as the world’s dominant economic and military power.
Module 11- Lesson 7 (Changes on the Home Front)
Before WWII the unemployment rate in the U.S. was around 19%, after WWII it was
25%
1.2%
0%
30%
Module 11- Lesson 7 (Changes on the Home Front)
Over 6 million women had entered the workforce for the first time, boosting the percentage of women in the total work force to 35 percent. What happened to Women workers after the war?
The increased their employment levels to 50% of the workforce
They were paid equally to men
Many women lost their jobs when the war ended
Women continued to dominate in the defense industry work
Module 11- Lesson 7 (Changes on the Home Front)
To help ease the transition of returning servicemen to civilian life, Congress passed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, better known as the GI Bill of Rights. What did this offer Veterans returning home from war?
education, business, and home loans
A $100,000 check
A guaranteed job
A free house and free education
