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World War II Part 2

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Concentration camps were....

a)

A place where kids learned to focus

b)

Camps where Nazis imprisoned & murdered Jewish people

c)

Hotels where Jewish people lived and rarely died

2.

Who was the President of the United States when World War II started?

a)

Harry Truman

b)

Dwight Eisenhower

c)

JFK

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

3.

What battle significantly weakened Japan's navy?

This was the most difficult battle fought by the US Marines.

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

Hiroshima

d)

Battle of Midway

4.

A nuclear weapon that created massive explosive energy by splitting atoms is called __________.

a)

Atomic Bomb

b)

Grenade

c)

Tear gas

d)

Holocaust

5.

Why did Truman decide to use the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

a)

revenge for Pearl Harbor

b)

force Japan to surrender and save the lives of American soldiers

c)

he hated Japanese citizens

6.

The murder of over 6 million Jews during WWII was the ________

a)

Holocaust

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Slavery

d)

Atomic Bomb

7.

_________ was appointed to be a US representative in the United Nations.

a)

FDR

b)

Eleanor Roosevelt

c)

Benito Mussolini

d)

Adolf Hitler

8.

What was the Manhattan Project?

a)

A project to change Manhattan, New York

b)

The United State's effort to build an atomic bomb

c)

German military code

d)

The first computer

9.

Approximately how many Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust?

a)

6,000 (six thousand)

b)

600,000 (six hundred thousand)

c)

600 (six hundred)

d)

6,000,000 (six million)

10.

Who was the President when World War II ended?

a)

FDR

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

George Bush

d)

Harry Truman

11.

World War II is known as the bloodiest war in world history.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Limiting what people can buy is called...

a)

lend-lease

b)

rationing

c)

the draft

d)

scrap drives

13.

A prison-like camp where Japanese Americans were held after Pearl Harbor.

a)

Internment camps

b)

concentration camps

c)

dictatorships

14.

A leader who gains COMPLETE control of a country's government.

a)

dictator

b)

king

c)

president

15.

A policy through which the US let European countries borrow military supplies.

a)

Lend-lease

b)

Friendship

c)

Manhattan Project

d)

The draft

16.

What happened as a result of Japan's surrender in World War II?

a)

Americans celebrated and called it VJ Day

b)

No countries made atomic bombs

c)

Harry Truman lost all respect and lost in his reelection.

17.

Why did the United States join the United Nations?

a)

to rebuild Europe after World War I

b)

promote world peace

c)

to end the great depression

d)

to give Eleanor Roosevelt an activity

18.

Which battle forced Germany to get out of the Soviet Union?

a)

Battle of Midway

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Battle of Stalingrad

d)

Normandy

19.

What battle ended the war in Europe? What was this day called?

a)

Stalingrad and V-E Day

b)

Battle of the Bulge and V-E Day

c)

Battle of Midway and V-J Day

d)

Battle of Midway and V-E Day

20.

Who was the emperor of Japan?

a)

Hirohito

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Stalin

d)

FDR

21.

Dictator of Germany

a)

Mussolini

b)

Hitler

c)

Stalin

d)

Churchill

22.

Leader of the Soviet Union

a)

Josef Stalin

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Benito Mussolini

23.

Dictator of Italy

a)

Mussolini

b)

Hitler

c)

Hirohito

24.

Where did the largest land to water invasion in world history take place?

a)

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

b)

Berlin, Germany

c)

Stalingrad, Soviet Union

d)

Normandy, Japan

25.

Who was Anne Frank?

a)

A Jewish girl who wrote a diary as she hid from Nazi soldiers

b)

A Nazi girl who wrote a diary about her hatred of Jewish people.

c)

An American who secretly fought in World War II.