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WWII Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When was the attack on Pearl Harbor

a)

December 8, 1941

b)

December 7, 1942

c)

December 7, 1941

d)

August 6, 1945

2.

Which act provided materiel aid to the Allies?

a)

Lend-Lease

b)

Espionage

c)

Give-Take

d)

Sedition

3.

Where in France did the Allies attack on D-Day?

a)

Holland

b)

Iwo Jima

c)

North Africa

d)

Normandy

4.

The invasion of _______ started WWII in Europe.

a)

Poland

b)

Czechslovakia

c)

The Sudetenland

d)

Norway

5.

Who was the dictator in charge of the Soviet Union?

a)

Kruschev

b)

Stalin

c)

Mussolini

d)

Roosevelt

6.

Which policy gave Hitler whatever he wanted in order to avoid war?

a)

Appeasement

b)

Armistice

c)

Arrondisement

d)

Arresting

7.

Which dictator created facism?

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

Hideki Tojo

d)

Josef Stalin

8.

What does "Blitzkrieg" mean?

a)

Full-coverage blitz

b)

Quick War

c)

Sneak Attack

d)

Lightning War

9.

Who were the "Braceros"?

a)

Mexican-American farm workers

b)

Mexican-American soldiers

c)

Navajo Code Talkers

d)

Navajo soldiers

10.

Which gave economic and educational aid to returning American soldiers?

a)

GI Geoffrey

b)

GI Joe

c)

GI Bill

d)

GI Craig

11.

Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?

a)

To seize oil in the Dutch East Indies

b)

To further Japan's New World Order

c)

To counter American Naval Expansion

d)

All the above

12.

What did Executive Order 9066 do?

a)

Incarcerated all Japanese Americans

b)

Incarcerated all German Americans

c)

Required all men 18 and older to sign up for armed service

d)

Designated May 8 as VE Day

13.

What was Germany's last offensive against the Allies?

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

Battle of Stalingrad

c)

Battle of Rome

d)

Battle of Iwo Jima

14.

What were African Americans allowed to do during the war?

a)

Serve in frontline units

b)

Serve in segregated units doing manual labor

c)

Nothing; they were denied service

d)

Serve in segregated units, fighting to fight

15.

What did the Doolittle Raid do?

a)

Attack Berlin

b)

Attack Tokyo

c)

Defend London

d)

Defend New York City

16.

What was the island hopping strategy?

a)

US strategy of conquering islands and cutting off larger Japanese bases

b)

Japanese strategy of conquering islands to block US expansion

c)

US strategy of skipping over islands to bomb Japan

d)

Japanese strategy of landing on multiple islands to bomb far away targets

17.

Which battle broke the Japanese Navy?

a)

Guadalcanal

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

Midway

d)

Leyte Gulf

18.

Who was NOT part of the "Big Three"?

a)

Roosevelt

b)

Chamberlain

c)

Churchill

d)

Stalin

19.

Which conference decided plans for after the war?

a)

Yalta

b)

Tehran

c)

Potsdam

d)

Casablanca

20.

What was the Luftwaffe?

a)

German Army

b)

Germany Navy

c)

German Air Force

d)

German Marine Corps

21.

How did US women affect WWII?

a)

Joined frontline troops

b)

Took on more of a role in the workforce

c)

Stayed in old gender roles

d)

Joined farm laborers

22.

What was the codename for the development of the Atomic Bomb?

a)

Manhattan Project

b)

Dallas Project

c)

Brooklyn Project

d)

Los Alamos Project

23.

Where in Washington was Plutonium, the fuel for the Atomic Bomb, created?

a)

Boeing

b)

Vancouver

c)

Hanford

d)

Yakima

24.

What was one lasting effect of the war?

a)

The UN created Israel

b)

Japan turned communist

c)

The US and USSR became close allies

d)

Hitler was given life in prison by the ICC

25.

What was similar about the leaders of Italy, Germany and Japan leading up to the war?

a)

They all were short

b)

They were all super religious

c)

They all felt wronged by the end of WWI

d)

They all hated the US