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US History Topic 6 Quiz

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 2hrs 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the government in which a single party or leader controls the economic and social lives of its citizens?

a)

Republic

b)

Totalitarianism

c)

Democracy

d)

Communism

2.

Who was the leader of communist Soviet Union. He joined the allies in World War II against Germany?

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Hitler

c)

Roosevelt

d)

Churchill

3.

Who was the fascist leader and dictator of Italy during WWII?

a)

Hitler

b)

Stalin

c)

Benito Mussolini

d)

Churchill

4.

What was the political movement that stressed extreme nationalism and authoritarian rule?

a)

Fascism

b)

Communism

c)

Democracy

d)

Socialism

5.

Who was the leader of the Nazi party and dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. In 1939 he ordered the invasion of Poland starting WWII?

a)

Roosevelt

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Benito Mussolini

d)

Adolf Hitler

6.

Group of countries led by Germany, Italy, and Japan that fought the Allies in WWII.

a)

Allies

b)

Axis Powers

c)

Nato

d)

Warsaw Pact

7.

Group of countries led by Britain, France, the U.S. and the Soviet Union that fought the Axis in WWII.

a)

Axis Powers

b)

Triple Entente

c)

Allies

d)

Central Powers

8.

Who was the prime minister of Great Britain during WWII. Inspired the British people during the war.

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Winston Churchill

9.

Act passed in 1941 that allowed the U.S. to sell or lend war supplies to countries fighting the Axis powers.

a)

Trade Agreement

b)

Lend-lease Act

c)

Alliances

d)

Blitzkrieg

10.

German “Lightning war” that used the speed of tanks combined with air power to overwhelm the enemy.

a)

Blitzkrieg

b)

D-Day

c)

Invasion of France

d)

Naval Attack

11.

What was the American military base attacked by the Japanese on December 7th, 1941?

a)

Newport Harbor

b)

Huntington Harbor

c)

Pearl Harbor

d)

Diamond Harbor

12.

Who was the prime minister of Japan when it attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor.

a)

Kurt Suzuki

b)

Shohei Ohtani

c)

Emperor Hirohito

d)

Hideki Tojo

13.

Sea battle that took place in May 1942 which stopped Japan advancing in the Pacific.

a)

Battle of the Coral Sea

b)

Bataan Death March

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Battle of the Phillipines

14.

Sea and air battle in which American forces defeated Japanese forces near Midway Island in the Pacific.

a)

Battle of the Philippines

b)

Bataan Death March

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Battle of the Coral Sea

15.

Forced march of US and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese in which many died.

a)

Battle of the Coral Sea

b)

Bataan Death march

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

D-Day

16.

Who was the supreme commander of the Allied forces. After the war he served as president for 2 terms?

a)

George S. Patton

b)

Roosevelt

c)

Dwight Eisenhower

d)

George Marshal

17.

The dropping of bombs on key military or industrial targets.

a)

Saturation Bombing

b)

Strafing

c)

Blitzkrieg

d)

Strategic Bombing

18.

The dropping of massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage.

a)

Saturation Bombing

b)

Strategic Bombing

c)

Blitzkrieg

d)

Naval Attack

19.

African American squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe in WWII.

a)

Marines

b)

Tuskegee Airmen

c)

Rangers

d)

Green Berets

20.

Who commanded U.S. tanks in WWII and attacked German forces in France and into Germany itself.

a)

Dwight Eisenhower

b)

George Marshall

c)

George S. Patton

d)

Roosevelt

21.

Civilians buy these to help the government pay for military operations in times of war.

a)

War Bonds

b)

Stocks

c)

Weapons

d)

Tanks

22.

Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group such as Japanese Americans in WWII.

a)

Bracero Program

b)

Internment

c)

Gulag

d)

Stockade

23.

Government limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians can buy during wartime.

a)

War Bonds

b)

Big Business

c)

Rationing

d)

Stocks

24.

What was the plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American Farms?

a)

Rationing

b)

War Bonds

c)

Angel Island

d)

Bracero Program

25.

What was the government Agency that encouraged support of the War during WWII using propaganda?

a)

Office of War information (OWI)

b)

The New Deal

c)

Migrant Program

d)

War Bonds

26.

The successful Allied attack on German forces in France on June 6th, 1944. 

a)

D-Day

b)

V-Day

c)

H-Day

d)

J-Day

27.

What was the failed last major German offensive on the Western Front?

a)

Battle of Midway

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Battle of the Coral Sea

d)

Battle of the Sonne

28.

What were the Japanese pilots who crashed their planes into American ships called?

(a)  

29.

Who became president when Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945. He made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan?

a)

Harry Potter

b)

Franklin Roosevelt

c)

Dwight D. eisenhower

d)

Harry S. Truman

30.

What was the code name of the secret project to develop the atomic bomb?

a)

Manhattan Project

b)

Alan Parsons Project

c)

Project Code Blue

d)

The Big Bomb Project

31.
  1. What was the 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

a)

Yalta Conference

b)

Geneva Convention

c)

Nuremburg Trials

d)

United Nations

32.
  1. The United States and the Soviet Union dominated the postwar world.

a)

United Nations

b)

Superpowers

c)

Enemies

d)

Mutual Destruction

33.
  1. What was the organization founded in 1945 to promote peace. It replaced the League of Nations.

a)

Superpowers

b)

League of Nations

c)

United Nations

d)

Geneva Convention

34.
  1. International agreement on how to humanely treat soldiers and prisoners of war.

a)

United Nations

b)

League of Nations

c)

International Rights

d)

Geneva Convention

35.
  1. Trials in which Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes.

a)

Nuremburg Trials

b)

Scopes Trial

c)

War Crime Trials

d)

OJ Simpson Trial