WorksheetsWWII Test Review
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 44mins
An agreement that says countries will not attack or invade one another?
Nonaggression pact
Blitzkrieg
Winston Churchill
Pearl Harbor
What does the German term 'Blitzkreig' mean?
air attack
attack
lightning war
tank war
Leader of France during WWII?
Charles de Gaulle
Joseph Stalin
Franklin Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Who was the leader of Great Britain during most of World War II?
Winston Churchill
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Franklin Roosevelt
What new invention gave Britain a huge advantage when fighting German planes?
more planes
faster planes
better weapons on the planes
radar
What was the German airforce called?
Luftwaffe
Lufthansa
RAF
air germany
Who was the commanding general of the German Afrika Korps nicknamed 'The Desert Fox'?
Rommel
Von Manstein
Von Rundtsted
Goering
This document laid the foundation for the United Nations
Atlantic Charter
Cash and carry
Lend-Lease Act
Bill of Rights
A line of concrete bunkers and fortifications built by the French along the German border after WWI
defensive line
German Line
Margin Line
Maginot Line
The air battle between the German Luftwaffe and the British air force that began in June 1940 and lasted into the fall of 1940 became known as
sitzkrieg.
the Munich Crisis.
the Battle of Britain.
the “Miracle at Dunkirk.”
After being trapped by the Germans in Belgium, the only port remaining open for Britain and France to evacuate their surviving troops was at
Antwerp.
Dunkirk.
Brussels.
Danzig.
The Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact contained a secret deal between Germany and the Soviet Union to divide
Czechoslovakia.
Austria.
Belgium.
Poland.
The policy of giving concessions in exchange for peace?
compromise
agreement
appeasement
anschuluss
9. After the fall of Poland, Hitler and his generals decided to attack
Belgium and Luxembourg.
Norway and Denmark.
Japan and China.
France and England
Why did Hitler turn attention away from Great Britain in late 1940?
The British put up too much resistance.
The Americans entered the war.
Germany invaded China.
Ecuador succeeded from the union.
What was the purpose of the Lend-Lease Act that was passed in March of 1941?
It was part of the New Deal to bring back the American Economy.
It was to help American farmers get new farming equipment in return for a portion of their crops.
It put American factories back to work by creating items the government needed.
It allowed the United States to sell, lend, or give ships, planes, tanks, or other equipment to the Allies.
Whoever controlled this canal had access to oil reserves of the Middle East...
Smith Canal
Erie Canal
Suez Canal
Grand Canal
Which set of countries made up the Axis Powers?
Italy, Japan, France, Germany
Great Britain, France, U.S., USSR
Japan, Germany, Italy
France, Great Britain, U.S., Canada
This battle was a victory for America and was a turning point in the pacific during the war.
Battle of Stalingrad
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway
Battle of Britain
Commander of the U.S. Army in the Pacific - led Island hopping
Omar Bradley
Dwight Eisenhower
George Patton
Douglas MacArthur
What was the U.S. strategy for attacking the smaller islands and skipping the larger islands held by the Japanese in the Pacific called?
trench warfare
island hopping
blitkrieg
freeze-tag
The first major offensive by the U.S. against Japanese forces?
Saipan
Guadalcanal
Coral Sea
Okinawa
Why did the U.S. need to attack Guadalcanal quickly?
Japan was building factories there.
Japan was building a huge airbase there.
They were keeping American prisoners there.
The were running out of fuel.
How as the Battle of the Coral Sea a different type of naval warfare?
Airplanes from carriers attacked ships.
Nuclear weapons were used against battleships.
Radar was used on submarines.
Long range missiles were used.
Why did the Japanese want to conquer the Dutch East Indies?
It was rich in oil & other resources.
The area was the gateway to the Pacific.
It was home to many native Japanese.
The U.S. fleet was there.
Which of the following is a way that the U.S. tried to stop Japan's aggression in the Pacific?
The U.S. cut off oil shipments to Japan.
The U.S. sent more troops to the Philippines.
The U.S. broke Japan's secret message code.
They closed their bank accounts.
What caused the United States to enter WWII?
The German invasion of Poland
The Holocaust
Atomic Bomb
The attack on Pearl Harbor
Who was the president of the United States when war was declared against Japan?
Harry Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Who was this military leader of Japan?
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Hideki Tojo
Winston Churchhill
What happened during the Bataan Death March?
Americans marched Japanese-Americans to concentration camps.
Germans marched Jews to concentration camps.
Japanese tortured/murdered Filipino & American prisoners on way to camps.
The Italians forced Africans to march through the desert with no food or water.
This term refers to the Germanic peoples and claims they were the "master race"...
Northerners
Anglo-Saxons
Aryans
Afro-Iberians
What was the Holocaust?
Ethnic killings in Rwanda between the Hutus and the Tutsis
The systematic killing of Jews by Nazi Germany
The destruction of Islamic holy sites in the Middle East
The genocide in Kosovo
What was the event called where gangs of Nazis broke into Jewish synagogues, businesses, and homes and caused a lot of destruction and terror?
Krystallnacht
Nuremberg Trials
Final Solution
Auschwitz
What were ghettos?
large area in city with tents for Jews to live in
Jewish gang territory for resistors
segregated areas in a city surrounded by walls or fences
small area in the country where Jews stayed hidden from the Nazis
What was the "final solution" to the "Jewish problem"?
Use of ghettos to confine and control the Jewish population.
Use of death by shooting to eliminate the Jewish population.
Work camps to keep the Jews busy and not have them be economic competition in German towns.
Industrial death camps, where gas was to be the primary means of execution.
The systematic murder of an entire people...
defenestration
homicide
genocide
regicide
What was Hitler's first plan to rid Germany of its Jewish Population?
He isolated Jews in ghettos.
He wanted Jews to emigrate to other countries.
He wanted to destroy Jewish shops and businesses.
He wanted to exterminate Jews in death camps.
The Nazis built __________________ in camps such as Auschwitz so they could institute the Final Solution.
Factories
Hospitals
Jail Cells
Gas Chambers
What does anti-Semitism mean?
Racism against Germans.
Racism against Jews.
Racism against British.
Hatred of large trucks.
How did most prisoners die in concentration camps?
Old age or loneliness.
Gas, malnutrition or disease.
Nobody died in a concentration camp.
Industrial accidents
What is a concentration camp?
Concentration camps were holiday camps in Germany.
Concentration camps were places to put people that the Nazis wanted to remove from society.
Concentration camps were places Jewish people stayed and they were free to leave.
Concentration camps were places of deep thought and concentration on AVID strategies.
In what country were the most Jews killed?
Soviet Union
Germany
Poland
Netherlands
What did Hitler blame the Jews for?
Being rich and having big noses
Germany's loss of WWI and a failing economy
Germany's loss of land and weakness
Worshiping a God that he did not believe in
When did WWII end?
1939
1942
1944
1945
Near the end of WWII, what country did the United States military drop atomic bombs on?
China
Germany
Japan
The Soviet Union
Who made the difficult decision to use atomic weapons against Japan?
President Roosevelt
President Truman
Hitler
Mussolini
What lead to the surrender of Japan and the end of WWII in the Pacific?
US dropped atomic bombs on 2 Japanese cities.
Russia defeated the Japanese in North Korea.
Japan dropped atomic bombs on Pearl Harbor Naval base.
United States agreed to help rebuild Japan
What did the governments of the United States and Japan agree to do at the end of WWII?
work together to rebuild Japan
work together to defeat the Nazis
work together to defeat the Russians
stop the spread of Communism into Asia
How did the United States and Japan become enemies?
Japan attacked the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941
The United States dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan in 1941
Japan invaded Poland whom the United States had an alliance with
Japan signed an alliance with Nazi Germany, which the United States was at war with.
How could the relationship between the United States and Japan be described after WWII?
strong relationship economically, politically, and militarily
weak relationship economically, politically, and militarily
strong economic relationship but at odds militarily
weak economic relationship but strong political and military relationship
How could Japan be describe immediately after WWII?
devastated with widespread destruction
powerful with newly gained territory
economically powerful with a weak military
strong military strength with a weak economy
Who was General Douglas MacArthur
US Military Officer in charge of rebuilding Japan after WWII
US Military Officer responsible for the surrender of the Nazis
British military officer in charge of repairing relations between US and Japan
Russian military officer responsible for planning Japanese reparations to China
What form of government did General MacArthur establish for Japan after WWII?
Constitutional Monarchy (Parliamentary Democracy)
Presidential Democracy
Absolute Monarchy
Communist Oligarchy
What was the role of the Emperor in the new government of Japan after WWII?
Symbolic Figurehead (Head of State)
Head of Government
Autocratic Dictator
Removed from all involvement
Why did the U.S. decide to drop the atomic bomb?
They didn't think they could defeat the Japanese.
They didn't have enough soldiers or weapons to defeat the Japanese.
The bomb would be easier and quicker.
They thought too many allies soldiers would die in the invasion.
Why did the U.S. need to take over Iwo Jima?
They needed to get close to Japan to steal their resources.
They needed a place to revenge the attack on Pearl Harbor.
They needed to use their resources to win.
They needed to get as close as they could to Japan to successfully attack.
