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BTN Episode 22

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What happened 75 years ago?

a)

We saw a baby elephant fly

b)

We celebrated the end of World War II

c)

We celebrated the first woman on the moon

2.

What major city in Australia was bombed during WWII?

a)

Darwin

b)

Sydney

c)

Perth

3.

What year did WWII start?

a)

1939

b)

1989

c)

1903

4.

What year did Adolf Hitler become Germany's leader?

a)

1933

b)

1943

c)

1963

5.

What type of German race did Hitler want to create?

a)

pure

b)

black

c)

able

6.

What was the first country the Nazi's invaded?

a)

Austria

b)

Poland

c)

Russia

7.

The Allied forces were made up of which three countries?

a)

Britain, France, Australia

b)

Russia, Austria, Poland

c)

USA, Spain, China

8.

The United States naval base, Pearl Harbor, was bombed in what year?

a)

1941

b)

1942

c)

1943

9.

What type of people did Hitler say weren't worthy members of society?

a)

Jewish

b)

Chinese

c)

French

10.

What was the name of the prisons were the Jews were kept?

a)

Concentration Camps

b)

Country Camps

c)

Holiday Camps

11.

Millions of people were killed or died from terrible living conditions and those events are now known as the .........?

a)

Holocaust

b)

Happy days

c)

Empires

12.

What was the name given to the countries that fought with Nazi Germany?

a)

the Allied powers

b)

the Axis powers

c)

the Triple Entente.

13.

Do you know who the British Prime Minister during World War Two was?

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Walter Gromit

14.

Do you know the name of this German Jewish teenager who famously wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis in the Netherlands?

a)

Anne Frank

b)

Anne of Green Gables

c)

Gretel

15.

Australia wasn't prepared for war as it only had .......soldiers

a)

3000

b)

5000

c)

1 million

16.

Close to the end of the war how many Aboriginal soldiers had signed up to fight?

a)

5000

b)

900

c)

10

17.

Who was Australia's Prime Minister at the start of the Second World War?

a)

Robert Menzies.

b)

Bob Hawke

c)

Alfred Hitchcock

18.

The USA joined the war after Japan attacked its base at Pearl Harbor. Where is that?

a)

Florida

b)

Hawaii

c)

Guam

19.

Which city, home to a major British military base, was captured by Japan in 1942?

a)

Shanghai

b)

Singapore

c)

Saigon

20.

What is it called when the government controls what you buy to make sure essential items don't run out.

a)

Rationing

b)

Splurging

c)

Saving

21.

During the war what was used to warn people if there was an aerial attack?

a)

flashing lights

b)

message on loudspeaker

c)

a siren

22.

How many people across the world died during WWII?

a)

85 million

b)

90, 000

c)

500