WorksheetsWorld War II Review
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 27mins
Which theory, about the relationship between motion, speed and light, was Albert Einstein responsible for developing?
Theory of Absolute Science
Theory of Universal Gravitation
Theory of Relativity
Theory of Universal Suffrage
What style of music became popular in the interwar period?
Rock
Classical
Country
Jazz
Who stole the idea of the assembly line from Cincinnati meat packers?
Adolf Hitler
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
Charles Lindbergh
What idea was Friedrich Nietzsche known for?
Extracurriculars
Existentialism
Extraguac
Unconsciousness
Between both World Wars, European countries were testing out a new form of government, what is this known as?
Socialism
Communism
Oligarchy
Democracy
The president who decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
Woodrow Wilson
What new invention did many people have during the 1920s?
Television
Radio
Newspapers
Gossip Magazines
Many nations in Europe struggled with democratic governments in the post WWI time period because they could not form parliamentary majority governments. As a result many had to form coalition governments, what best describes a coalition?
A single party that controls over 50% of the branches of government
A military alliance in which an attack on one nation is viewed as an attack on every nation
A democratic government that chooses to give power to one strong leader for a short period of time to deal with a crisis.
A temporary alliance of political parties used to form a parliamentary majority government
The Weimar Republic of Germany had several problems, which of the following describes a problem the Weimar Republic had to overcome in Germany?
It was blamed for signing the loss of WWI and signing the Treaty of Versailles.
Germany did not have a strong background in Democracy
Germany had many political parties making it difficult to gain a majority government.
All of the above
Japan wanted to expand its empire to look for raw materials and new markets. What two states did Japan invade?
China and Korea.
China and Manchuria.
Manchuria and USSR.
Korea and USSR.
In what way did Hitler defy the Versailles Treaty?
Began to build up the German Army
Invade demilitarized zone between France and Germany known as the Rhineland
Participated in Anschluss or the absorption of Austria and Czechoslovakia
All of the above apply
Which of the following best describes what happened at Dunkirk?
The Allies invaded Normandy in an attempt to retake France.
The Soviets turned the momentum of the war away from Germany
A dramatic rescue attempt of French soldiers across the English channel
Both B and C are correct
The strategy put in place in the Pacific front in WWII of taking poorly defended Japanese Islands in an attempt to reach the mainland of Japan was called...
Island Hopping
Carpet bombing
Blitzkrieg
Kamikaze
Which of the following best describes the Nisei?
Japanese spies in the United States
Americans who had lived in Japan
Japanese immigrants in the United States
Japanese-Americans who were native-born American citizens
Which describes the Appeasement policy?
The US strategy to go from island to island to bomb Japanese cities
To force Japanese Americans into interment camps
Allowing dictators to aggressively expand hoping they'd eventually stop; this failed
Allowing the League of Nations to use other nation's armies to enforce policy
Which describes the D-Day (Operation Overlord) offensive?
December 9, 1941: An attack on US naval base at Pearl Harbor
August 6, 1945: US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
April 30, 1945: Soviet force stake German capital Berlin and Hitler dies
June 6, 1944: Allied forces invade beaches of Normandy, France to open a second front
Why did the US take pictures of the concentration camps?
To record exactly how many were killed
To ensure they were properly relocated after World War II
To endorse the creation of a Jewish state after World War II
To ensure those responsible for the Holocaust would face justice for their crimes
Which of these was not a way Americans conserved for the war effort? (You will write down the other 3 during review)
By growing Victory Gardens if they needed more food
By using lottery systems to give out goods
By using Rationing books and follow rationing laws
By using less gasoline and materials needed for the war
What was the purpose of Executive Order 9066?
It made criticizing the government illegal
It forced more Americans into military service after Pearl Harbor
It forced Japanese Americans into internment camps due to racism and fear after Pearl Harbor
It imported farm labor from Mexico to avoid a labor shortage for food
Who was Douglas Macarthur and what were his accomplishment(s) in World War II?
Supreme Allied Commander of Allied forced in Europe who led the D-Day invasion
Commander of the US Army in the Pacific Theater
An African American Lieutenant who won the Medal of Honor for his bravery in World War II.
Commander of the US Pacific Fleet and Naval forces
Why was the Battle of Midway important?
It was a huge defeat of U.S. forces
It was the end of the war
The Japanese started to lose
It was a defeat for the British
Which of the following was not an economic problem in the United States which led to the Great Depression?
Overproduction of manufactured goods
Uneven distribution of wealth
People buying stocks on margin
Citizens refused to pay taxes on purchased goods
Franklin D. Roosevelt was responsible for trying to save the U.S. economy by enacting which of the following.
The New Deal
The Great Agreement
Cash for Clunkers
Save Now, Spend Later
Which of the following nations did not join the Axis powers?
Japan
Germany
Italy
Soviet Union
Where were two atomic bombs dropped on Japan which would eventually end the war in the Pacific?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Iwo Jima and Nagasaki
Okinawa and Hiroshima
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
After the battle of Leyte Gulf, the Japanese began using kamikazes. These are best described as…
Japanese suicide pilots used to crash into allied ships
Japanese atomic weapons used during WWII
Japanese tanks that fought at Iwo Jima
The name for the Japanese code machine broken by allies at Midway.
Which of these was the most notorious concentration camp during World War II?
Dachau
Flossenburg
Auschwitz
Belzec
What was the policy called that continually gave in to Hitler's demands in order to prevent conflict with Germany?
policy of appeasement
policy of nullification
policy of aggression
policy of enactment
