WorksheetsWWII Quiz #1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in the nation of _____.
Germany
Austria
Hungary
France
Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," his antisemitic manifesto, while in prison for attempting to _________.
rig the elections
overthrow the German government (coup)
refuse to fight in World War I
destroy Jewish businesses
After the Nazi Party won approximately 37% of the vote, Hitler initially became the ________ of Germany.
Commander in Chief
President
Prime Minister
Chancellor
The President of Germany who reluctantly appointed Hitler as Chancellor was an older, respected military leader named _____.
After the _______ was set on fire, Hitler blamed a communist plot and convinced the government to give him supreme powers, allowing him to suspend basic rights and detain people without trial.
Capitol Building
Luftwaffe
Reichstag
Congress
Hitler's political title as sole leader of Germany was _____.
President
Deutscher
Danke
Führer
This was the personal bodyguards of the Nazi Party that eventually became a powerful paramilitary force. They were the most "elite" of the Nazi organizations.
Hitler Youth
These were the secret Nazi police who would arrest and interrogate any Nazi opposition and track down Jews in hiding.
This Nazi organization was nicknamed the "stormtroopers" and "brownshirts." Most of the Nazis purged by Hitler in 1934 came from this group.
Hitler Youth
Gestapo
This was an organization set up by Adolf Hitler in 1933 for educating and training male youth in Nazi principles.
Brownshirts
Hitler Youth
German Youth
German Association
What World War I-era treaty was Hitler openly defying as leader of Germany?
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of London
Treaty of Berlin
The Nazi German laws that segregated and discrimination against German Jews were called the ___. These were modeled are the United States' Jim Crow laws.
World War II begin when Germany invade its neighboring country of _____.
France
Belgium
Poland
Soviet Union
What country, along with Germany, invaded Poland also? Germany and this country were going to split Polish territory. They invaded from the eastern side of the country.
After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the Nazi SS sent in ________ that rounded up and massacred Polish civilians.
mobile killing units
Gestapo
stormtroopers
snipers
Those who fought back against Nazi Rule in Poland were known as the _______.
In WWII, Germany used a new type of war strategy called the _____, which means "lightning war."
blitzkrieg
buchstabieren
Veränderung
gemacht
From what beaches were 338,000 British, French, and Belgian soldiers evacuated from in 1940 after being surrounding by German forces?
Normandy
Cannes
Dunkirk
La Rochelle
Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain throughout most of World War II?
Winston Churchill
FDR
Harry Truman
Gordon Lightfoot
Who was President of the United States during World War II?
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
