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World History - Chapter 32

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Germany targeted British airfield, factories, and cities with concentrated bombings.

a)

Blitzkreig

b)

Nonaggression Pact

c)

Atlantic Charter

d)

Battle of Britain

2.

10-year agreement between Stalin and Hitler in which they secretly agreed to divide Poland

a)

nonaggression pact

b)

blitzkreig

c)

Battle of Britain

3.

French general who set up a French government-in-exile in London

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Charles de Gaulle

c)

Erwin Rommel

4.

Blitzkreig

a)

"lightning war"

b)

"fast war"

c)

"sitting war"

d)

"phony war"

5.

Middle East

a)

included countries of Northwest Asia and Northeast Africa

b)

included countries of Southwest Asia and Southeast Africa

c)

included countries of Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa

6.

Joint declaration from the US and Britain that upheld free trade among nations and the right of people to choose their own government.

a)

Pacific Charter

b)

British Charter

c)

Atlantic Charter

7.

German general who served as the commander of the Afrika Korps

a)

Evan Rommel

b)

Erwin Rommel

c)

Eric Rommel

8.

Luftwaffe

a)

German word for "land weapon"

b)

Italian word for "air weapon"

c)

German word for "air weapon"

9.

Unconquerable

a)

Invincible

b)

Vincible

c)

Destroyed

10.

American Naval base in Hawaii

a)

Pearl Harbor

b)

Hawaii

c)

Honolulu

d)

Earl Harbor

11.

Several thousand US Marines & Australians fought to seize control of island the Japanese were building an air base on.

a)

Battle of Guam

b)

Battle of Guadalcanal

c)

Battle of Guadalajara

d)

Battle of the Suez Canal

12.

Commander of Allied land forces in the Pacific

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

Isoroku Yamamato

c)

Adolf Hitler

13.

Isoroku Yamamoto

a)

Japan's greatest naval strategist

b)

Japan's greatest army strategest

c)

Germany's greatest naval strategist

d)

Japan's greatest air strategist

14.

Battle of _______ - The turning point of the war in the _____

a)

Halfway

b)

Midway

c)

Atlantic

d)

Pacific

e)

Japan

15.

Ghetto

a)

Segregated Jewish areas

b)

Segregated German areas

c)

Segregated Nazi areas

d)

Segregated Polish areas

16.

Hitler's plan to eradicate the Jews

a)

"Last Solution"

b)

"Final Plan"

c)

"Final Solution"

17.

"Night of Broken Glass" - Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany.

a)

Kristallnacht

b)

Holocaust

c)

Night of broken Glass

d)

Final Solution

e)

Kristalldaght

18.

Aryan (there are TWO answers)

a)

What the Germans referred to as a "master race"

b)

What the Nazis referred to Germanic people as - "master race"

c)

What Poles referred to as a "master race"

19.

The systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups of people judged inferior by the Nazis

a)

Holo

b)

Holocaust

c)

Ghetto

d)

"Final Solution"

20.

The process of creating a government elected by the people.

a)

Demilitarization

b)

Diet

c)

Democratization

21.

Disbanding armed forces

a)

Demilitarization

b)

Diet

c)

Democratization

d)

Nuremberg Trials

22.

The only convicted Nazi to express remorse

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Hanz Frank

c)

Joseph Goebbles

23.

Diet

a)

The Japanese three-house parliment

b)

The German two-house government

c)

The Japanese two-house parliment

24.

an International Military Tribunal representing 23 nations put Nazi war criminals on trial.

a)

Hanz Frank Trials

b)

Diet

c)

Demilitarization

d)

Nuremberg Trials

25.

British Prime minister who declared Britain would never give in.

a)

Charles de Gaulle

b)

Winston Churchill

c)

Erwin Rommel

26.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was an American general who lead Operation _____ in Africa

a)

Torch

b)

D-Day

c)

Fire

27.

the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944

a)

D-Day

b)

D-Today

c)

C-Day

28.

German troops, with aerial support from the Luftwaffe, attempted to seize control of Stalingrad.

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

Battle of Stalin

c)

Battle of Stalingrad

29.

Battle between Allied forces and Germany at the front in Ardennes

a)

Battle of Stalingrad

b)

Battle of Ardennes

c)

Battle of the Bulge

30.

Japanese suicide pilots who took their name from the "divine wind" that saved Japan from a Mongol invasion in 1281.

a)

Kamikaze

b)

D-Day

c)

Blitzkreig

31.

WW2 ended with what event?

a)

The Bombing of Hiroshima

b)

The Bombing of Nagasaki

c)

The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

32.

German soldiers jokingly called wait to attack which European country the sitzkrieg, or sitting war?

a)

Poland

b)

Germany

c)

France

d)

Italy

33.

What method was most commonly used to execute those labeled as “weak” in the concentration camps?

a)

Cyanide gas

b)

Gassing

c)

Cyanite gas

34.

How did Hitler react to the news that Berlin was surrounded by Allied Troops?

a)

Committed Suicide

b)

Retreated

c)

Sent more troops

35.

Which of these isn’t a country or colony the Japanese conquered?

a)

Burma

b)

Philipeans

c)

Mongolia

36.

After being arrested by king Victor Emmanuel III, what happened to Mussolini?

a)

The Germans put him in charge of Northern Germany.

b)

The Germans put him in charge of Southern Italy.

c)

The Germans put him in charge of Western Italy.

d)

The Germans put him in charge of Northern Italy.

37.

The event that began WW2 was?

a)

Invasion of Poland

b)

Invasion of Italy

c)

Invasion of Pearl Harbor

38.

Hitler initially tried to solve the Jewish problem by?

a)

Forcing emigration

b)

Forcing immigration

c)

Putting Jews in Concentration Camps

39.

What was an unintended consequence of so many men fighting in the war and women working in factories?

a)

Fields weren't planted so there was a food shortage.

b)

Shortage of goods.

c)

Labor shortage.

d)

Rationing

40.

Operation torch was an Ally defensive aimed at removing German General Erwin Rommel from which continent?

a)

Europe

b)

Africa

c)

Asia

41.

The most important accomplishment of the US occupation of Japan was?

a)

New Constitution

b)

Demilitarization

c)

New Ideas

42.

Why was the German invasion of the Soviet Union ultimately unsuccessful?

a)

German troops were prepared for winter conditions.

b)

Germans were ill-prepared for summer conditions.

c)

The Germans didn't have as big of an army as the Soviets.

d)

German troops were ill-prepared for winter conditions.

43.

What was the code name for the invasion of Normandy?

a)

Operation torch

b)

Operation Overload

c)

Operation Overlord

d)

D-Day

44.

 The British navy with the help of several civilian craft, rescued 338,000 troops from what French port city?

a)

Dunkirk

b)

Paris

c)

Dalgan

45.

The Manhattan Project developed what nuclear weapon?

a)

Nuclear Bomb

b)

Nuclear Weapons

c)

Atomic Weapons

d)

Atomic Bomb

46.

The US declared war on Japan after the attack on (a)   Harbor.

47.

What transportation method allowed the Fins to defeat the Soviet Troops?

(a)  

48.

The Nuremberg Laws, passed in 1935, stripped which ethnic group of their rights?

a)

Jews

b)

Poles

c)

Fins

49.

Which of the following isn’t an example of rationed materials or goods?

a)

Rubber

b)

Helium

c)

Gasoline

50.

An American fleet with Australian support intercepted a Japanese strike on which air base that would put the Japanese within striking distance of Australia?

a)

Port Dunkirk

b)

Port Moresby

c)

Pearl Harbor