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WorksheetsWW2 Test Review 2
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
All of the following countries will control one of the 4 zones of Germany EXCEPT:
France
Italy
US
USSr
American troops fight against the Japanese in the __________ Theater while simultaneously fighting against the Germans in the __________ Theater.
European; Pacific
Pacific; European
Mediterranean; African
African; Mediterranean
_______________ fights inflation on the prices of consumer products by freezing prices.
Office of Price Administration
Fixed Interest Rate
Adjustable Interest Rates
Credit
The ___________ establish(es) the principle that people are responsible for their own actions in a war, which means that Nazis can't simply blame Hitler for crimes against humanity and get away with it.
Yalta Conference
League of Nations
European Union
Nuremberg Trials
FDR dies of a brain aneurism, and _________ replaces him as the 33rd president.
Herbert Hoover
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
Hitler and the Nazis suffer their first loss in the Battle of __________, and their assault is called off after 3 months of constant bombing.
Poland
Antwerp
Britain
Stalingrad
The Selective Training and Service Act, otherwise known as the _________, greatly expands the military by forcing 16 million men to register for military service.
Draft
Nuremberg Trials
Tuskegee Experiment
Deferment
Hitler's line of defenses along the Northern coast of Europe is nicknamed the _________ because it is thought to be an impenetrable force consisting of land mines, czech hedgehogs (tank busters), barbed wire, and machine gun nests.
Eagle's Nest
Pacific Rim
Maginot Line
Atlantic Wall
The Strategy of island hopping allows the US reach the island of __________ threatening mainland Japan.
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Indonesia
Okinawa
The Battle of ____________ is considered by many historians to be the turning point of WWII, and the defeat of the Germans here guarantees that the Allies will win the war.
The Bulge
Stalingrad
Okinawa
Berlin
All of the following American companies convert to wartime production during the conflict EXCEPT:
Lionel
Mattatuck Manufacturing Company
Hasselhoff Industries
Ford Motor Company
Women in the WACC serve in all of the following roles in WWII EXCEPT:
Electricians
Pilots
Nurses
Soldiers
What does winning the Battle of Okinawa guarantee for the Allies?
The US could sustain 1,000,000 casualties in Operation Downfall
It guarantees Germany will be divided into 4 zones
V-E Day
The US will win the war
___________ gives the final go ahead to use the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading to the nation's surrender.
Dwight Eisenhower
George Patton
Woodrow Wilson
Harry Truman
________ allows the president to lend or lease arms & other supplies to "any country whose defense is vital to the United States."
Munich Agreement
Atlantic Charter
Lend-Lease Act
Tripartite Pact
The Germans fight the __________ in the Battle of Berlin in which the Red Army rapes and pillages the people of Berlin.
Americans
Soviets
French
Chinese
Japanese __________ pilots dive-bomb their planes into 300 ships during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, sinking 34 of them.
Geisha
Heishi
Kamikaze
Sudoku
The rapid pace of WWII gives way to what the Germans call the _________ and what some newspapers refer to as the phony war.
Blitzkrieg
Sitzkrieg
Trench Warfare
Guerrilla Warfare
The Japanese lose all four aircraft carriers at the _____ _____ ________ allowing the Allies to island-hop and move closer to the Japanese mainland.
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Hiroshima
Battle of Midway
___________ are a series of laws aimed at keeping the US out of WWII.
Tripartite Pact
Neutrality Acts
Lend-Lease Acts
Nuremberg Laws
The ________________ is the last desperate effort to reverse the Allied momentum resulting irreplaceable losses for Germany.
Invasion of Poland
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Britain
Battle of Dunkirk
Germany's invasion of ___________ via blitzkrieg leads to Great Britain and France declaring war on Germany, officially starting World War II.
Austria
Belgium
Switzerland
Poland
Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler sign the ___________, which hands the Sudetenland over to the Germans without a shot being fired.
Treaty of Versailles
Communist Manifesto
Munich Agreement
Warsaw Pact
The Allied victory at the ______________ ensures complete naval control of the Pacific Ocean.
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Tokyo
Battle of Leyte Gulf
To avoid capture by the Red Army, Hitler and his wife Eva Braun _______________.
flee to Argentina
Surrender to the Americans
flee Berlin for his private residence in Austria, the Berghoff
swallow cyanide capsules, and the bodies are burned
In the constitutionality of internment camps is challenged; the Supreme Court upholds the relocation on grounds of national security.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Marbury v. Madison
Lawrence v. Texas
Korematsu v. US
Which of the following is the code name for the program that developed the atomic bomb?
Operation Fortitude
Prometheus Project
Manhattan Project
Operation Avalanche
Japanese Emperor Hirohito signs an official surrender on September 2, 1945, this day is also known as ______.
V-E Day
V-J Day
Infamy Day
D-Day
The greatest amphibious assault in world history occurs on (month day, year) which is formerly known as D-Day.
August 21, 1998
June 6, 1944
December 11, 1941
September 11, 2001
At the Yalta conference, Stalin promises ___________ in Poland and other Eastern European nations.
Free Elections
Independence
Annexation into the Soviet Union
To Divide up the countries with the Allied Powers
_____________ enters the death camp of Auschwitz in 1944, and details the hardships in a book.
Anne Frank
Marion Blumenthal Luzanne
The Bielski Brothers
Elie Wiesel
The systematic murder of 11 million people leads to the __________ or a genocide in which 6 million Jews are killed.
Rwandan Genocide
Uyghur Muslim Imprisonment
Japanese Internment
Holocaust
As a result of the Yalta Conference, President Roosevelt and other Allied leaders establish the __________, an international peacekeeping body that has military might.
United Nations
International Monetary Fund
League of Nations
World Trade Organization
Benito Mussolini establishes a _________ form of government that emphasizes nationalism and the needs of the state above the individual.
Fascist
Communist
Democratic
Socialist
What British official warns that appeasement with Hitler is dangerous and doomed to fail?
Winston Churchill
Field Marshall Montgomery
Charles de Gaulle
Neville Chamberlain
The _________ gives money to returning veterans to continue their education, start new businesses, and buy new homes in order to transition to civilian life.
Potsdam Conference
GI Bill of Rights
Reparations Clause
Civil Liberties Act
The _______________ is meant to prevent aggressive acts by countries but is ill-equipped at dealing with such issues because it lacks a military.
Tripartite Pact
Allied Powers
Atlantic Charter
League of Nations
All of the following are experiments performed on prisoners at concentration camps EXCEPT:
Freezing
Experiments on Twins
Mental Health Therapy
Mustard Gas
__________ dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and _________ dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
Discovery; Challenger
Bockscar; Enola Gay
Little Boy; Fat Man
Enola Gay; Bockscar
The ______ ______ was used by the United States while transporting cargo to their allies
German Luftwaffe
Convoy System
Atlantic Wall
Munich Agreement
Which term best describes Operation Overlord
Liberates Paris from the Nazis in
August of 1944.
Hands the Sudetenland to
Germany without firing a single
shot.
The location of an iconic image of
US marines raising the US flag.
The code name for the Allied
Invasion of Normandy, France.
Which best describes the Convoy System
A strategy that uses tanks and
planes to overwhelm and take the
enemy by surprise.
Longest continuous military
campaign of WWII
Cargo ships travel alongside
destroyers equipped with sonar.
Alliance of 26 nations including the
US, Great Britain, and the Soviet
Union.
Which best describes the Battle of the Atlantic
The longest continuous military campaign of WWII
Cargo ships travel alongside destroyers equipped with sonar.
One of the most read accounts of the Holocaust due the writers age, emotion, and writing style.
The code name for the Allied
Invasion of Normandy, France.
Which best describes Anne Frank
The location of an iconic image of US marines raising the US flag.
Hands the Sudetenland to Germany without firing a single shot.
Liberates Paris from the Nazis in August of 1944.
One of the most read accounts of the Holocaust due the writers age, emotion, and writing style.
Which best describes the Munich Agreement
Hands the Sudetenland to Germany without firing a single shot.
Alliance of 26 nations including the US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.
Longest continuous military
campaign of WWII
A strategy that uses tanks and planes to overwhelm and take the enemy by surprise.
Which best describes George Patton
Liberates Paris from the Nazis in August of 1944.
One of the most read accounts of the Holocaust due the writers age, emotion, and writing style.
Hands the Sudetenland to Germany without firing a single shot.
Alliance of 26 nations including the US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.
Which best describes the Allied Powers
Liberates Paris from the Nazis in August of 1944.
The code name for the Allied Invasion of Normandy, France.
Alliance of 26 nations including the US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.
The location of an iconic image of US marines raising the US flag.
Which best describes Chester Nimitz
The longest continuous military campaign of WWII
Alliance of 26 nations including the US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.
Liberates Paris from the Nazis in August of 1944.
Commander of US naval forces in the Pacific.
Which best describes Mt. Suribachi
Hands the Sudetenland to Germany without firing a single shot.
The location of an iconic image of US marines raising the US flag.
Cargo ships travel alongside destroyers equipped with sonar.
The code name for the Allied Invasion of Normandy, France.
Which best describes Blitzkrieg
A strategy that uses tanks and planes to overwhelm and take the enemy by surprise.
Liberates Paris from the Nazis in August of 1944.
Hands the Sudetenland to Germany without firing a single shot.
The location of an iconic image of US marines raising the US flag.
