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World War Leaders

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Adolf Hitler was the leader of what country?

a)

Italy

b)

Germany

c)

USSR

d)

Great Britain

2.

Hideki Tojo was the leader of what country?

a)

Japan

b)

Italy

c)

France

d)

Germany

3.

Charles de Gaulle was the leader of what country?

a)

United States

b)

Great Britain

c)

France

d)

Italy

4.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the leader of what country?

a)

France

b)

Great Britain

c)

America

d)

Japan

5.

Winston Churchill was the leader of what country?

a)

USSR

b)

France

c)

Germany

d)

Great Britain

6.

Benito Mussolini was the leader of what country?

a)

United States

b)

Italy

c)

Japan

d)

France

7.

Josef Stalin was the leader of what country?

a)

Japan

b)

United States

c)

Germany

d)

USSR

8.

Who was the prime minister of Great Britain during most of the war from 1940-1945?

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Benito Mussolini

9.

Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union during WW2?

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Winston Churchill

d)

Benito Mussolini

10.

Who was the president of the United States during the start of the war?

a)

Franklin Roosevelt

b)

Harry Truman

c)

Ronald Reagan

d)

Winston Churchill

11.

Who became president after FDR died?

a)

Franklin Roosevelt

b)

Harry Truman

c)

WInston Churchill

d)

John Adams

12.

Millions died because of ______________ during the Holocaust.

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Emperor Hirohito

d)

Benito Mussolini

13.

Who was the leader of Japan during WW2?

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Emperor Kuzko

d)

Emperor Hirohito

14.

Who was the Prime Minister of Italy from 1922-1943?

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Emperor Hirohito

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Benito Mussolini

15.

Which country did Harry Truman lead?

a)

France

b)

United States

c)

Canada

d)

Soviet Union

16.
Who was the President during WWII?
a)
Herbert Hoover
b)
Abraham Lincoln 
c)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
17.

Which US President decided to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?

a)

Franklin Roosevelt

b)

Donald Trump

c)

Harry Truman

d)

Herbert Hoover

18.

Which battle of WWII allowed the Allies to control the Suez Canal?

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

Battle of Stalingrad

c)

Battle of El Alamein

d)

Pearl Harbor

19.

Who wrote Mein Kampf?

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

Franklin Roosevelt

d)

Josef Stalin

20.

Which Pacific theater battle stopped Japanese expansion into Australia

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

Iwo Jima

c)

Hiroshima

d)

Coral Sea

21.

Who is this Nazi military leader?

a)

Hermann Göring

b)

Erwin Rommel

c)

Heinrich Himmler

d)

Adolf Hitler

22.
—  Led U.S. out of isolationism and to a victory over Germany.
—  Secured an importance alliance with Great Britain, Soviet Union.
 
On December 8, 1941, the day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, he appeared before a joint session of Congress, which declared war on Japan.
a)
President Hoover
b)
President Truman
c)
President Roosevelt
d)
Prime Minister Churchill
23.
He directed the water invasion of Sicily and the Italian mainland in 1943 that led to the fall of Rome in June 1944.
Appointed supreme commander of the Allied Force and given the responsibility of spearheading the planned Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe (AKA D-Day).
a)
General McArthur
b)
General Marshall
c)
General Eisenhower
d)
General Tojo
24.
 He gave stirring speeches in Parliament and on the radio. He persuaded U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to provide war supplies–ammunition, guns, tanks, planes–to the Allies, a program known as Lend-Lease, before the Americans even entered the war.

a)
President Roosevelt
b)
Soviet Premier Stalin
c)
Prime Minister Churchill
d)
Prime Minister Mussolini
25.
Military leader of Japan
Authorized attack on Pearl Harbor
a)
Mussolini
b)
Tojo
c)
Stalin
d)
Hitler
26.

Who took control of Russia after Czar Nicholas II of Russia

a)

Vladimir lenin

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Winston Churchill

27.

Signed the Treaty of Brest Litvosk

a)

Lenin

b)

Stalin

c)

Gorbachev

d)

Khrushchev

28.

Went to War with Afghanistan

a)

Khrushchev

b)

Stalin

c)

Brezhnev

d)

Gorbachev

29.

Ended Communism in the USSR

a)

Lenin

b)

Stalin

c)

Putin

d)

Gorbachev

30.

Removed Missiles from Cuba

a)

Lenin

b)

Krushchev

c)

Brezhnev

d)

Gorbachev

31.
What did Winston Churchill say has descended (come down) over Europe?
a)
A Cloudy Day
b)
Iron Curtain
c)
Sunshine
d)
Brass Curtains
32.

Which of these people is considered the "architect of appeasement?"

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Franklin Roosevelt

c)

Josef Stalin

d)

Neville Chamberlain

33.

What is the name of the reform in education, military, and industrial changes made after Japanese studied western nations

a)

Sushi

b)

Tokyo

c)

Western

d)

Meiji

34.
What did the United States do after WWII to rebuild Europe?
a)
Marshall Plan 
b)
NATO 
c)
Containment
d)
Arms Race
35.
Which U.S. President during the 1980s aided in the collapse of the Soviet Union?
a)
John F. Kennedy
b)
Franklin Roosevelt 
c)
Ronald Reagan 
d)
George Bush