WorksheetsEmerging as a World Power
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 33mins
Who gave the speech with these words - a date which will live in infamy
President Woodrow Wilson
President Dwight D Eisenhower
President Franklin D Roosevelt
President Theodore Roosevelt
These countries were part of the Allied Powers in World War 2
United Kingdom
France
Sweden
United States
Soviet Union
Nazis took Jews from their homes and first placed them in
France
ghettos
upscale hotels
military bases
What battle took place here?
D-Day
Iwo Jima
Pearl Harbor
V-E day
What two countries were already involved in a military conflict before the beginning of World War II?
Japan and India
Japan and The Soviet Union
Japan and China
Turkey and Greece
These countries were part of the Allied Powers in World War 2
United Kingdom
France
Sweden
United States
Soviet Union
What was the name of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to end the Depression?
The Harlem Renaissance
The New Deal
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Great Migration
"Hooverville's" were named after...
President Herbert Hoover
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Theodore Roosevelt
President Donald Trump
Which of the following trends during the 1920s set the stage for the Great Depression?
Americans building up personal debt
Banks making lots of very safe loans
Americans refusing to play the stock market
A lack of developed farmland in the Midwest and Great Plains
October 29, 1929 was known as _____ after the prices of stocks fell sharply.
Black Tuesday
Black Wednesday
Black Thursday
Black Friday
In December of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that the United States had declared war on Japan. The event that led to this decision was Japan's:
Bombing of Normandy
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Bombing of England
Bombing of London.
On D-Day, General Dwight Eisenhower and the Allied Powers
invaded Japan to defeat the Japanese
attacked Pearl Harbor
invaded the beaches of Normandy to push the Germans out
Who was the president who decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
President Truman
President Roosevelt
President Eisenhower
German leader who led the Nazi Party
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hirohito
Joseph Stalin
What was the alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II called?
axis powers
Nazi powers
allied powers
rationing
Which country was invaded which caused France and Great Britain to declare war?
Poland
Spain
The United States
China
On June 6, 1944, Allied troops arrived onshore at Normandy and surprised the Germans. This operation was known as
V Day
VJ Day
D day
What happened in the battle of Iwo Jima?
Japanese troops captured thousands of Allied troops in the Pacific.
Allied bombers destroyed most of Japan's naval fleet.
Allied troops captured an island in Japan.
Allied bombers sank most of the Allied ships in the Pacific.
The German invasion of which nation caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany?
Austria
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Belgium
Rosie the Riveter symbolized
the suffering of US citizens forced to live in internment camps
women who went to work to support the war effort
rationing
women in armed forces during WWII
The United States entered World War II in response to
Hitler seizing power in Germany.
Hitler's troops invading Poland
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan and Germany signing an alliance
Which country struggled economically in the 1920s because of the Treaty of Versailles?
USA
Germany
Italy
France
Who was the dictator of Germany?
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Emperor Hirohito
Hitler and the Nazis persecuted (punished) the __________, because the Nazis believed the Aryans (white Germans) were a superior race.
British
Americans
Jews
Muslims
What country did Germany invade that caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany?
Spain
Austria
Poland
USA
Who becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1940 and leads the British during the war?
Neville Chamberlain
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
What was the main cause of World War II to start?
Germans sunk a passenger ship
Bombing of Iwo Jima
Aggressive dictators in Japan, Germany and Italy
Germany wanted land
What did this poster mean during World War II?
Army
buildings
housework
women doing the jobs of the men
What happens to the price of goods when the demand did not increase and we have made an abundance of consumer goods?
items go state
Prices decreased
prices skyrockets
price stays the same
Dwight D Eisenhower
WWII military leader
Civil War General
Hero
President during Great Depression
President Franklin Roosevelt is known for his leadership
Roaring Twenties
Great Depression
Crash of the stock market
Civil War
There were many songs made during the Great Depression? What were these songs made about?
homeless
fighting in the war
starvation
not having jobs
The 442nd Regiment was assembled during what war?
Civil War
American Revolution
World War 2
World War 1
The Tuskegee Airmen volunteered to be the first group of —
African American pilots to serve in the Second World War
pilots to drop atomic bombs on Japan
African American code breakers stationed in the Pacific
pilots to land on the beaches of Normandy
Based on the information in the song, the conditions of the Dust Bowl led some people to —
move away looking for jobs
buy abandoned farmhouses
start new businesses
travel on vacation to visit relatives
The 442nd Infantry Regiment which fought during the Second World War was a unique group. This group was mostly made up of —
women pilots
African Americans
Japanese Americans
code breakers
Which event on the time line ended the Second World War?
Germany invades Poland
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
US drops atomic bomb on Japan
Allies invade German-controlled France (DDay)
