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9th Grade World History Final Exam

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What country did Hitler invade which caused WWII?

a)

Czechoslovakia

b)

Poland

c)

France

d)

Sudetenland

2.

What country bombed Pearl Harbor?

a)

North Korea

b)

Germany

c)

China

d)

Japan

3.

Where were the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan?

a)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

b)

Nagasaki and Okinawa

c)

Hiroshima and Okinawa

d)

Vietnam and Nagasaki

4.

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII and at the beginning of the Cold War?

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Mikhail Gorbachev

c)

Joseph Stalin

d)

Vladimir Lenin

5.

What was the persecution of the Jewish population in German occupied territory called?

a)

Holocaust

b)

Nuremberg Trials

c)

Final Solution

d)

Apartheid

6.

What was the largest amphibious assault in history when the Allies invaded Europe?

a)

Battle of Midway

b)

Battle of Britain

c)

D-Day

d)

Battle of the Bulge

7.

Air battle between German Luftwaffe and British RAF

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Battle of Britain

8.

Who became the leader of China after leading the Northern Communists to victory in 1949?

a)

Hideki Tojo

b)

Ho Chi Minh

c)

Kim Il Sung

d)

Mao Zedong

9.

Forced relocation of Japanese American citizens into camps following Pearl Harbor

a)

Concentration Camps

b)

Holocaust

c)

Genocid

d)

Japanese Internment camps

10.

Who is this?

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

FDR

d)

Winston Churchill

11.

High-ranking Nazis placed on trial fo their atrocities agains the Jews in the Holocaust

a)

Nuremberg Trials

b)

Holocaust

c)

Yalta Conference

d)

United Nations

12.

What divided West Berlin from East Berlin

a)

Iron Curtain

b)

Berlin Wall

c)

38th Parallel

d)

DMZ

13.

What event happened under US President JFK in which the Soviet Union put nuclear missiles in Central America?

a)

Cuban Missile Crisis

b)

Vietnam War

c)

Brinkmanship

d)

Korean War

14.

Korea is divided in two by what parallel?

a)

36th

b)

37th

c)

38th

d)

39th

15.

System of segregation and racial discrimination in South Africa

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Imperialism

c)

Partition of India

d)

Apartheid

16.

What is the international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to nations of the world?

a)

NATO

b)

Warsaw Pact

c)

United Nations

d)

League of Nations

17.

What stated that the United States would aid anyone under the threat of Communism?

a)

Marshall Plan

b)

Truman Doctrine

c)

Domino Theory

d)

Brinkmanship

18.

Guerrilla troops fighting in Vietnam

a)

Afrikaaners

b)

Boers

c)

Viet Cong

d)

Ho Chi Minh

19.

"Mr. ____________ tear down that wall"

a)

Stalin

b)

Kruschev

c)

Hitler

d)

Gorbachev

20.

Imaginary boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe

a)

Berlin Wall

b)

Naval Blockade

c)

Iron Curtain

d)

Maginot Line

21.

Funds for economic recovery in war-torn European nations

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

Containment

c)

Marshall Plan

d)

Domino Theory

22.

Competition between two nations to be the first into space

a)

Space Race

b)

Proxy War

c)

Cold War

d)

Arms Race

23.

Policy of willingness to go to the edge of war

a)

Containment

b)

Glasnost

c)

Detente

d)

Brinkmanship

24.

What event is this?

a)

9/11

b)

Iranian Hostage Crisis

c)

Bombing of Britain

d)

Hiroshima

25.

President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending US involvement in Vietnam War; gradual withdrawal of American troops

a)

Vietnamization

b)

Containment

c)

Detente

d)

Brinkmanship