WorksheetsWWII
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Leader of USSR during WWII who killed tens of millions of his own people before and after the war.
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Francisco Franco
WWI survivor who became leader of the Nazi Party in the 1930's.
Winston Churchill
Heinrich Himmler
Lotte Lenya
Adolf Hitler
Fascist dictator from Italy during WWII, later murdered by his own countrymen.
Francisco Franco
Augustus Caesar
Benito Mussolini
True or False: the U.S.S.R. opposed Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939.
True
False
Supreme Allied Commander during WWII:
Gen. Bernard Montgomery
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
Gen. George Patton
Site of the first major allied offensive after the Battle of Britain (1940):
Normandy Beach
North Africa
Sicily
Stalingrad
Highest-ranking general of the Japanese army?
Gen. Hideki Tojo
Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek
Gen. Malaise
Gen. Patton
Date for the start of German blitzkrieg on Poland and the kick-off to WWII in Europe:
Sept. 1st, 1939
Dec. 7th, 1941
June 6, 1944
Thousands of US troops killed on what President Roosevelt called "a date which will live in infamy":
Battle of Okinawa (1945)
Bataan Death March (1942)
Pearl Harbor (1941)
D-Day (1944)
What reason best describes the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe?
Hitler wanted more land.
A general rise in bigotry across the continent
It just seemed like the thing to do.
Germany's situation after WWI was impossible.
Internment camps for Japanese-Americans...
were meant to prevent spying by the Japanese government.
stripped these citizens of their property rights .
were formally acknowledged by the U.S. government in the 1980's in the form of a public apology.
all of the above
What battlefield is portrayed here? Hint: it took place east of Berlin, Germany toward the end of the war.
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of the Ardienne
Battle of the Bulge
Operation Overlord
Which world leaders comprised the "Big Three"?
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito
Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler
Truman, Churchill, Stalin
True or False: FDR decided to utilize the atomic bomb to bring a quick end to the war.
True
False
