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GKC - Weekly Quiz 06 - World Wars

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the name of the which was sunken by a Nazi submarine at the beginnings of WW1 which caused the Unites States to join the Allied forces

a)

RMS Lusitania

b)

USS Arizona

c)

USS West Virginia

d)

RMS Olympic

2.

What was the name of the project spearheaded by J. Robert Oppenheimer which lead to the development of the Atom Bomb.

a)

Trinity

b)

The Manhattan Project

c)

The Galileo Record

d)

Project Pizzicato

3.

What is the name of the tactic used by the Nazi army to swiftly win their battles.

a)

Blitzkrieg

b)

Lufftwaffe

c)

Rechtschreibreform

d)

Volksgenossen

4.

What is the name of the city in which "Operation Winter Storm" took place.

a)

Stalingrad

b)

Leningrad

c)

Berlin

d)

Moscow

5.

What was the name of the first atom bomb to ever be detonated?

a)

Little Boy

b)

Fat Man

c)

Lucky George

d)

Rampage Randy

6.

What was the nationality of student Gavrilo Princip? He assassinated the Austrian royal Franz Ferdinand- sparking the first world war.

a)

Polish

b)

Bosnian

c)

Italian

d)

Danish

7.

What is the name of the conscientious objector of the USA's Medal of Honor who saved 75 men single-handedly without a weapon in the battle of Okinawa in Japan.

a)

Desmond Doss

b)

Thomas W. Bennett

c)

Gary M. Rose

d)

Joseph G. LaPointe Jr.

8.

Which of these European nations remained at a neutral stance in the first world war?

a)

Norway

b)

Switzerland

c)

Italy

d)

Sweden

9.

What was the name of the Japanese prime minister at the time of the surrender of Japan to the Allied Powers?

a)

Hideki Tojo

b)

Keicho Nijimura

c)

Sachiko Hisa

d)

Masahiko Tsugawa

10.

What was the name of the location in which the Ultra Intelligence project was commenced? This project was the key to decoding the Enigma code.

a)

Bletchley Park

b)

Hyde Park

c)

Waddesdon Manor

d)

Willen Lake

11.

What was the location where the majority of the deaths from the Holocaust were concentrated?

a)

Auschwitz

b)

Chelmno

c)

Belzec

d)

Sobibor

12.

What was the name given by Hitler to his perfect vision of the Nazi Empire?

a)

1st Reich

b)

2nd Reich

c)

3rd Reich

d)

4th Reich

13.

The seeds for the Japanese Empire born in WW2 was sown at the end of the Edo period and the beginning of the new period known as "Bakumatsu." What was the last Shogunate of Japan before the Bakumatsu period?

a)

The Tokugawa Shogunate

b)

The Kamakura Shogunate

c)

The Ashikaga Shogunate

d)

The Kurokami Shogunate

14.

What was the name of the assassinations attempt carried out by Hitler's own men to kill their own fuhrer? This plot failed and over 4000 men were executed

a)

Operation Valkyrie

b)

Operation Barbarossa

c)

Operation Night Owl

d)

Operation Scheißenacht

15.

What is the name of this real-life hero of the nazi party who saved over 1200 lives of potential holocaust victims by their own intervention?

a)

Oskar Schindler

b)

Emily Schlegel

c)

Amon Göth

d)

Itzhak Stern

16.

The bombing of Pearl Harbor was the main reason for the United States of America to officially declare war on Japan- creating the atom bomb in the process. What state of the USA is Pearl Harbor located?

a)

Florida

b)

Hawaii

c)

Michigan

d)

New Jersey

17.

What was the nation which deployed these infamous 'U- boat' submarines during the World Wars?

a)

Germany

b)

USA

c)

The United Kingdom

d)

Italy

18.

What was the date on which the Japanese Air Raid carried out on Easter Sunday in Colombo, Sri Lanka?

a)

5th April 1942

b)

21st April 1942

c)

12th February 1945

d)

20th April 1969

19.

Who was the president of the United States during the first World War?

a)

Franklin Roosevelt

b)

Woodrow Wilson

c)

Gerald Ford

d)

Herbert Hoover

20.

What site became the first symbol of Nazi killing before the Holocaust?

a)

Dachau

b)

Belzec

c)

Babi Yar

d)

Ravensbruck

21.

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