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WWII

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Leader of USSR during WWII who killed tens of millions of his own people before and after the war.

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Leon Trotsky

d)

Francisco Franco

2.

WWI survivor who became leader of the Nazi Party in the 1930's.

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Heinrich Himmler

c)

Lotte Lenya

d)

Adolf Hitler

3.

Fascist dictator from Italy during WWII, later murdered by his own countrymen.

a)

Francisco Franco

b)

Augustus Caesar

c)

Benito Mussolini

4.

True or False: the U.S.S.R. opposed Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Supreme Allied Commander during WWII:

a)

Gen. Bernard Montgomery

b)

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

c)

Gen. Dwight Eisenhower

d)

Gen. George Patton

6.

Site of the first major allied offensive after the Battle of Britain (1940):

a)

Normandy Beach

b)

North Africa

c)

Sicily

d)

Stalingrad

7.

Highest-ranking general of the Japanese army?

a)

Gen. Hideki Tojo

b)

Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek

c)

Gen. Malaise

d)

Gen. Patton

8.

Date for the start of German blitzkrieg on Poland and the kick-off to WWII in Europe:

a)

Sept. 1st, 1939

b)

Dec. 7th, 1941

c)

June 6, 1944

9.

Thousands of US troops killed on what President Roosevelt called "a date which will live in infamy":

a)

Battle of Okinawa (1945)

b)

Bataan Death March (1942)

c)

Pearl Harbor (1941)

d)

D-Day (1944)

10.

What reason best describes the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe?

a)

Hitler wanted more land.

b)

A general rise in bigotry across the continent

c)

It just seemed like the thing to do.

d)

Germany's situation after WWI was impossible.

11.

Internment camps for Japanese-Americans...

a)

were meant to prevent spying by the Japanese government.

b)

stripped these citizens of their property rights .

c)

were formally acknowledged by the U.S. government in the 1980's in the form of a public apology.

d)

all of the above

12.

What battlefield is portrayed here? Hint: it took place east of Berlin, Germany toward the end of the war.

a)

Battle of Iwo Jima

b)

Battle of the Ardienne

c)

Battle of the Bulge

d)

Operation Overlord

13.

Which world leaders comprised the "Big Three"?

a)

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin

b)

Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito

c)

Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler

d)

Truman, Churchill, Stalin

14.

True or False: FDR decided to utilize the atomic bomb to bring a quick end to the war.

a)

True

b)

False