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WorksheetsUS History WW2 Quiz
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 16mins
What year did WW2 start and end?
1938 - 1944
1939 - 1945
1914 - 1918
1945 - 1948
Who is this?
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Harry Truman
Adolf Hitler
When did the US join the war after Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
December 1, 1941
December 7, 1939
December 1, 1944
The Axis these three major countries:
Soviet Union, Germany, Japan
Soviet Union, United Kingdom, US
Italy, Soviet Union, UK
Germany, Italy, Japan
Who is this?
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Benito Mussolini
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
_______ ________ was a way for US citizens to spend some money to help finance the war
(a)
The Big Three were what countries?
Germany, Italy, Japan
UK, France, US
France, Soviet Union, China
UK, US, Soviet Union
What military strategy was used by the US when fighting Japan?
Blitzkrieg
Island Hopping
Guerrilla Warfare
Who was the head scientist of the Manhattan Project?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Albert Einstein
Wernher Von Braun
Alan Turing
Who is this?
FDR
George Marshall
Harry Truman
Winston Churchill
What is appeasement?
Giving someone more resources than you received through trade
Allowing someone to invade your own country
Giving into the demands of an aggressor to keep peace
All the above
What was the genocide against the Jews by the Nazis called?
Holocaust
Night of Broken Glass
Great Purge
Great Leap Forward
How took over as president when FDR died?
Harry Truman
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Dwight Eisenhower
Who is this?
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Hirohito
Benito Mussolini
Hitler and Mussolini were of what ideology?
Communist
Democratic
Facist
Monarchy
Rosie the Riveter encouraged women to do what?
Stay at home for their children
Work in factories
Protest the war
Hitler was the leader of the ________ party
Nazi
Independent
Facist
Communist
What battle did Japan suffer a major defeat and lose most of its carriers?
Stalingrad
Iwo Jima
Midway
Pearl Harbor
How did WW2 start?
Germany invaded Poland
Germany invaded France
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
Italy invaded Ethiopia
What military strategy did Germany use to defeat France?
Island hopping
Strategic bombing
Naval bombardment
Blitzkrieg
What were internment camps?
Camps where Jews were killed
POW camps in the Soviet Union
US camps where Japanese citizens were kept
Who lead the military campaign in the Pacific?
FDR
General Douglas MacArthur
General Eisenhower
The Axis fought the _______
Allies
Entente
NATO countries
Japan surrendered after what event?
The fire bombing of Tokyo
The loss of Okinawa
Midway
The dropping of the atomic bombs
What was the first meeting where the Big Three discussed the division of Germany?
London Meeting
Nuremberg Trials
Berlin Conference
Yalta Conference
Allowed the US to lend equipment to other nations fighting the Axis powers
Selective Service Act
Supplies policy
Lend Lease Act
Pearl Harbor Law
What was the invasion of Normandy called?
D-Day
Stalingrad
Operation Market Garden
What were the Nuremberg Trials?
Nazi leaders being tried for war crimes
The second conference the allies had
The execution of multiple Soviet officials
The day the non aggression pact was signed between Germany and the Soviet Union
What was the Marshall Plan?
The military strategy used to defeat Germany
A US rationing act
An act put into place with the goal of rebuilding the European countries and stopping the spread of Communism
