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World War II Halfway Point Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3hrs 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What caused the United States to enter WWII?

a)

Pearl Harbor

b)

Germany invaded Poland

c)

Mussolini came to power in Italy

d)

Unrestricted submarine warfare

2.

How did the United States support the Allies prior to declaring war on the Axis powers? (Hint: there are MULTIPLE correct answers).

a)

Refusing to sell oil, steel, and iron to the Axis countries

b)

Lend-lease

c)

Cash and carry

d)

by being the 'arsenal of democracy'

3.

President Roosevelt viewed the war as ​ (a)   and democracy versus ​ (b)   .

Choose from the below words
liberty
totalitarianism
consumerism
punctualism
4.

The Allies forced Germany to fight a war ​ (a)   : against the ​ (b)   in the East, and against Britain, France and the US ​ (c)  

Choose from the below words
on two fronts
Soviet Union
in the West
5.

Match the following

a)
1.

highly decorated African-American flying unit

b)
2.

transmitted secret messages using their native language

c)
3.

women served in the military

d)
4.

civilians got supplies after the military got what it needed

6.

​ (a)   placed Japanese-Americans in internment camps.

Choose from the below words
Executive Order 9066
22nd Amendment
Operation Overlord
The French Resistance
7.

Grow your own food so commercially grown food can be shipped to the soldiers.

a)

b)

c)

d)

8.

On ​ (a)   , Japan bombed the US military base at ​ (b)   . This event ​ (c)  

Choose from the below words
December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
caused the US to enter World War II
September 1, 1939
Warsaw, Poland
started World War II
Poland
9.
Question Image

Match the following

a)

D-Day (Operation Overlord)

1.

100,000 Allied soldiers land on the coast of Normandy

b)

Operation Torch

2.

Allied campaign in North Africa

c)

Fall of Berlin

3.

Soviet soldiers capture the Nazi capital

d)

Battle of the Bulge

4.

Germany's last offensive campaign in the West

10.

Britain and France allow Germany to annex Austria and the Sudetenland part of Czechoslovakia in an effort to prevent another world war.

a)

cash and carry

b)

lend-lease

c)

appeasement

d)

embargo