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WWI & WWII

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

World War I began in ___________.

a)

1614

b)

1714

c)

1814

d)

1914

2.

WWI began because of the assassination of ______________________________.

a)

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

b)

Pope Pius V

c)

King John II

d)

Duke of Buckingham

3.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a secret organization called the ___________________________.

a)

Black Head

b)

Black Foot

c)

Black Arm

d)

Black Hand

4.

Cooperating teams that promise to defend each other are called _________________.

a)

alliances

b)

enemies

c)

agencies

d)

Orderlies

5.

Nationalism means...

a)

identification with one's own nation and support for its interests

b)

hating your country

c)

betraying your country

d)

going to college

6.

Imperialism is...

a)

extending a country's power and influence through education

b)

extending a country's power and influence through colonization and military force

c)

extending a country's power and influence through industry and technology

d)

extending a country's power and influence through science

7.

At the end of WWI, an agreement was signed called the _________________________.

a)

Treaty of London

b)

Treaty of Rome

c)

Treaty of Versailles

d)

Treaty of Amsterdam

8.

The Treaty of Versailles said that WWI was the fault of which country?

a)

Austria

b)

Yugoslavia

c)

England

d)

Germany

9.

The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to...

a)

pay large reparations

b)

cut their military

c)

give back all of their colonies

d)

All of the above

10.

Who was the leader of Germany during WWII?

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

11.

WWII started in 1939 and ended in _________.

a)

1940

b)

1952

c)

1945

d)

1930

12.

The two alliances of WWII were called the ___________ Powers and the _____________ Powers.

a)

Allied & English

b)

Allied & Axis

c)

Axis & American

d)

American & Japanese

13.

The Axis Powers were what three countries?

a)

Germany, Italy, and Japan

b)

Germany, Italy, and Poland

c)

Japan, Italy, and China

d)

Japan, Indonesia, and Taiwan

14.

Poland, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece were conquered and occupied by what country?

a)

Italy

b)

Germany

c)

Spain

d)

Finland

15.

The genocide of six million Jews committed by the Nazis was called the __________________.

a)

Black Plague

b)

Apartheid

c)

Reign of Terror

d)

Holocaust

16.

The event that brought the U.S. into WWII was the Japanese attack on __________________________.

a)

Washington, DC.

b)

New York City, New York

c)

Atlanta, Georgia

d)

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

17.

Hitler committed the Holocaust because he was trying to eliminate all imperfections from the Germans. He believed the perfect race was the _____________ Race.

a)

Asian

b)

Black

c)

Latino

d)

Aryan

18.

In August of 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic bombs on two cities in Japan. These cities were called ______________________________.

a)

Hiroshima & Tokyo

b)

Osaka & Tokyo

c)

Okinawa & Iwo Jima

d)

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

19.

The event where thousands of Allied soldiers invaded the beaches of Normandy and pushed the Germans out of France is called ____________.

a)

V-J Day

b)

V-E Day

c)

D-Day

d)

K-Day

20.

How did Hitler die?

a)

American soldiers killed him.

b)

Russian soldiers killed him.

c)

The Jews killed him.

d)

He killed himself.