WorksheetsWorld War II
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II?
Neville Chamberlain
David Coulthard
George Russell
Winston Churchill
Who was the leader of Russia during World War II?
Nikita Mazepin
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Leon Trotsky
Who was the leader of Italy during World War II?
Benito Mussolini
Antonio Giovinazzi
Francisco Franco
Fernando Alonzo
Who was the head of the Japanese military (who orders the attack on Pearl Harbor)?
Hideki Tojo
Emperor Hirohito
Takuma Sato
H. Mitsubishi
Name the three countries that formed the alliance known as the Axis powers
Japan, U.S., Russia
Japan, Germany, Soviet Union
Japan, Great Britain, Soviet Union
Japan, Germany, Italy
What was the policy called that continually gave in to Hitler's demands in order to prevent conflict with Germany?
policy of appeasement
policy of nullification
policy of aggression
policy of enactment
A political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied is called
direct democracy
monarchy
representative democracy
fascism
The systematic attempt to rid Europe of all Jews during World War II was called
the Progressive Movement
Internment camps
the Marshall Plan
the Holocaust
What was the turning point in Eastern Europe during World War II?
Battle of Midway
Battle of Britain
Battle of Stalingrad
D-Day Invasion
Effect: Turning point of the war in 1942 in the Pacific and the U.S. was victorious. What was the CAUSE?
Battle of Midway
Battle of Stalingrad
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Okinawa
What event started World War II, setting off war in Europe?
Battle of Britain
Germany invaded Poland
Japan bombed Pearl
Japanese aggression in East Asia
The D-Day invasion in June 1944 on the beaches of Normandy was important to the outcome of World War II because it-
Opened a new Allied front in Europe
Increased the amount of resources available to the Allies
Provided a strategic advantage to the Allies in the Pacific theater
Pushed back the German forces to the Eastern Front
A government where the state has complete control over every part of public and private life
Totalitarianism
Gulag
Communism
Reparations
The Manhattan Project led by Robert Oppenheimer was part of the World War II effort to:
ban the use of chemical and biological warfare
develop the atomic bomb
coordinate troop movements between New York and Europe
supply the Allies with more fighter planes
What did Stalin and Hitler agree to do when they signed the Nazi Soviet Pact?
Agreed to not go to war with Poland
Split Poland between them
Agreed to attack the United States
Agreed to divide Europe between them
What was Hitler's costliest mistake?
the Anschluss
the attack against Great Britain
the invasion of the Soviet Union
the alliance with Japan
Germany's battle tactic of quickly overwhelming the opposition is referred to as
enschuldigung
blitzkrieg
schmetterling
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