WorksheetsYear 9 Quiz 2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 16mins
Why was World War Two started?
The French invading Spain
The Germans invading Poland
The Germans threatening France
The Polish taking over Germany
When did World War Two end?
1990
1918
1945
1939
When Germany invaded the USSR, what was it called?
Operation Sea Lion
Operation D-Day
Operation Overlord
Operation Barbarosa
In what year did World War Two start?
1918
1945
1939
1492
Who was the last to surrender on the Axis in World War Two?
Japan
Italy
Germany
Hungary
Romania
Why did the USA join World War Two?
Germany attacked New York
Japan bombed Pearl Harbour
Italy took over Florida
Germany told Mexico to attack the USA
Why did the Soviets win against the Germans when they were surrounding Moscow?
The Axis disbanded
The Soviets allied with Finland.
Winter came in Russia and Germany was freezing
The Soviets didn’t win against the Germans.
The first (1st) Atomic Bomb was dropped on:
Hiroshima.
Nagasaki.
Tokyo.
None of these.
When did Japan finally surrender?:
Following the second (2nd) Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki.
When U.S. troops invaded and captured Tokyo.
Following the first (1st) Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima.
They never surrendered.
Hitler's "lightning war" tactics were also known as the:
Bolshevik
Blitzkreig
Bedlam in Belgium
Birkenbier
How did Truman help the people of West Berlin?
By airlifting supplies, such as fuel and food, into the city
He didn't
He sent American troops and tanks to break into the city
He protested in the United Nations
Why weren't nuclear weapons used during the Cold War?
The Domino Theory
The Marshall Plan
Mutually assured destruction
Strategic defensive initiative
The US and the Soviet Union were stockpiling weapons in an effort to have more weapons than the other side. This was called...
the Korean War
the Manhattan Project
the arms race
disarmament talks
What happened to many eastern European countries after WWII?
They were dependent on the Marshall Plan
They developed democratic governments
They became economic world powers
They became Soviet satellite states
Churchill called the imaginary line between Soviet satellite states and western Europe.....
NATO
The Iron Curtain
The Berlin Wall
The Great Wall
The Cold War was between the US and
Korea
China
Germany
The Soviet Union
Which two nations emerged as superpowers after WWII?
Soviet Union and Germany
US and Great Britain
France and Great Britain
US and Soviet Union
