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4th Period Unit 7 Week 4 WWII

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was the dictator of Italy during WWII and also believed in fascism. ?
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
Benito Mussolini
c)
Josef Stalin
d)
Winston Churchill
2.
A leader who gains complete control over a country’s government is called a ____.
a)
Prime Minister
b)
dictator
c)
political party
d)
fascism
3.
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII?
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
Benito Mussolini
c)
Josef Stalin
d)
Winston Churchill
4.
The form of government in which individual freedoms are denied and complete power is given to the government is called _____.
a)
Prime Minister
b)
dictator
c)
political party
d)
fascism
5.
Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII?
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
Benito Mussolini
c)
Josef Stalin
d)
Winston Churchill
6.
Germany, Italy, and Japan became known as the ________.
a)
Allied Powers
b)
Axis Powers
c)
Dictators
d)
Prime Ministers
7.
Great Britain, Canada, the Soviet Union, and eventually the United States became known as the ________.
a)
Allied Powers
b)
Axis Powers
c)
Dictators
d)
Prime Ministers
8.
WWII began when _____. 
a)
when Spain sunk the U.S Maine 
b)
when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
c)
when the stock market crashed.
d)
when Hitler(germany) invaded Poland.
9.
Who was the dictator of Germany, and his political party, the Nazis, believed in fascism?
a)
Adolf Hitler
b)
Benito Mussolini
c)
Josef Stalin
d)
Winston Churchill
10.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on _______ which caused the U.S. to join WWII on the Allied side.
a)
December 7, 1914
b)
December 7, 1941
c)
December 7, 1943
d)
December 7, 1940
11.

What years did WWII encompass

a)

1939-1945

b)

1900-1910

c)

1969-1972

d)

The Wonder Years

12.

Who was the symbol of the female workers?

a)

Mrs. Coombs

b)

Queen Elizabeth

c)

Rosie the Riveter

d)

Cleopatra

13.

During the 1930s what did the US and most of the world struggle with?

a)

Political change

b)

An economic depression

c)

A big headache

14.

How many Allied troops landed on the beach at Normandy France on D-Day?

a)

155,000

b)

1 million

c)

300,000

15.

What was the city where the German invasion of the Soviet Union was turned back?

a)

Boston, Massachusettes

b)

Stalingrad

c)

Cleveland, Ohio

d)

Normandy, France

16.

Who moved Japanese Americans to internment camps in 1942?

a)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Hitler

17.

How many Japanese-Americans were forced into concentration camps following the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese?

a)

10,000 people

b)

1 million people

c)

120,000 people

18.
Which of the following is used by a dictator to obtain and retain absolute control?
a)
Freedom of the Press
b)
Private citizens control the economy
c)
Use of propaganda to promote a certain cause
d)
Provide all citizens with lawyers and due process protections
19.

What political and economic system did Nazi Germany follow?

a)

Communism

b)

Democracy

c)

Fateism

d)

Fascism

20.
Which of the following can be examples of a totalitarian form of government?
a)
Democracy, Communism, & Nazism
b)
Communism, Democracy, & Fascism
c)
Communism, Fascism, & Nazism
d)
Democracy, Monarchy, & Oligarchy
21.

A government where the state has complete control over every part of public and private life

a)

Totalitarianism

b)

Gulag

c)

Communism

d)

Reparations

22.

A society with no classes or private property and all business is ran by the government.

a)

totalitarianism

b)

Gulag

c)

Communism

d)

Reparations

23.

What does 'Lebensraum' mean?

a)

Living people

b)

Living country

c)

Living on a prayer

d)

Living space

24.
Japanese Suicide Bombers were called
a)
Kamikaze 
b)
Blitzkrieg 
c)
Stalingrad
d)
Sitzkrieg
25.
Who did Hitler blame for most of the Germany's problems?
a)
Americans
b)
Christians
c)
Muslims
d)
Jews
26.

On August 6, 1945 where was the 1st atomic bomb dropped?

a)

Nagasaki

b)

Beijing

c)

Hiroshima

d)

Berlin

27.

Which country was invaded which caused France and Great Britain to declare war?

a)

Thipoia

b)

Soviet Union

c)

United States

d)

Poland

28.

Tuskegee Airmen were

a)

Japanese American pilots

b)

Female Pilots

c)

African American pilots

d)

German American Pilots

29.

Pearl Harbor happened in what country and/or state?

a)

Hawaii

b)

Japan

c)

Phillipines

d)

Midway

30.

What happened as a result of the event in the newspaper article?

a)

United States declared war on Japan

b)

United States remained neutral

c)

Japan captured and took control of Hawaii

d)

Germany declared war on Japan

31.
Who was the dictator of Japan during WWII? 
a)
Emperor Hirohito 
b)
Charles de Gaulle
c)
Hideki Tojo 
d)
Adolf Hitler 
32.

Who was the only president to be elected four times (he will die before the war ends)?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Harry S. Truman

d)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

33.

Who was the head of the Japanese military (who orders the attack on Pearl Harbor)?

a)

Hideki Tojo

b)

Emperor Hirohito

c)

Isoroku Yamamoto

d)

H. Mitsubishi

34.

What was the policy called that continually gave in to Hitler's demands in order to prevent conflict with Germany?

a)

policy of appeasement

b)

policy of nullification

c)

policy of aggression

d)

policy of enactment

35.
Which of these is described below? *signed at the end of WWI *required Germany to pay Allies for damages caused by the war*required Germany to reduce the of its miliary
a)
the New Deal
b)
the United Nations
c)
the Treaty of Versailles
d)
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
36.

Germany's battle tactic of quickly overwhelming the opposition is referred to as

a)

kamikaze

b)

blitzkrieg

c)

island-hopping

d)

total war

37.

Which groups of people were targets of the Nazis for concentration and extermination camps?

a)

Germans living in foreign countries

b)

Jews & Jehovah's Witnesses

c)

the disabled, homosexuals, Gypsies, and Poles

d)

political dissidents, such as Communists

38.

An example of actions that would exhibit dehumanization would be

a)

capturing soldiers and taking them prisoner, holding them in a cell and providing three meals a day

b)

cramming people into cattle cars to move them from place to place

c)

forcing people to act like animals for entertainment purposes

d)

air dropping supplies to a village that has been destroyed to help the civilian population

39.

The systematic destruction of a group of people based on race, nationality, religion, etc., is called

a)

dehumanization

b)

Holocaust

c)

genocide

d)

total war