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WorksheetsBeacon History - WWII - Pts 1-7
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
He established a totalitarian state in Italy.
Benito Mussolini
Francisco Franco
On August 23rd, 1939 Germany signed a nonaggression pact with this nation promising to never attack each other and agreeing to split Poland between them.
The Soviet Union
France
His name means “Man of Steel”, after V.I Lenin died, he took over the Soviet Union.
Josef Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Hitler believed Germany especially this group formed a master race and was destined to rule the world
Jews
Aryans
The ousted leader of Ethiopia he told the league of nations, “It is us today, it will be you tomorrow”
Eluid Kipchoge
Haile Selassie
The border region of Czechoslovakia where about 3 million German speaking people lived.
Austria
The Sudetenland
This country saw nothing fair in a treaty that blamed them for starting WWI.
Germany
France
Loyalty to one’s country above all else and dreams of territorial expansion.
Imperialism
Nationalism
This turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a single shot being fired.
The Munich Agreement
The Warsaw Pact
Meaning lightning war. The idea was to take the enemy by surprise by rushing into a country to take the enemy by surprise and quickly crushing all opposition with overwhelming force.
Blitzkrieg
Luftwaffe
The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews.
The Annihilation
The Holocaust
The nations of Germany, Italy and Japan became known as this.
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
Meaning the night of the broke glass, It was when Nazi stormtroopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany
Kristallnacht
Night of Terror
The plan to invade France began with an attack on this place in Northern France
Dunkirk
Normandy
He led 16 Bombers on an attack on Tokyo and other Japanese cities on April 18, 1942
Erwin Rommel
James Doolittle
Hitler hoped to capture these in the Caucasus Mountains
Soviet Oil Fields
Soviet Soldiers
The code name for research on the Atomic Bomb was called this.
Operation Kaboom
The Manhattan Project
American citizens who emigrated from Japan
Nisei
Luftwaffe
African American pilots of the 99th Pursuit Squadron, they won two distinguished unit citations.
The Buffaloes
Tuskegee Airmen
The name given to the plan to invade France
Operation Overlord
Operation Torch
The Desert Fox, he led the Afrika Corps
George Patton
Erwin Rommel
He did not live to see V-E Day, having died from a stroke a month earlier
Harry S. Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The most significant achievement of the OSRD was the secret development of this
Stealth Bomber
Atomic Bomb
On July 25, 1943 The King of Italy summoned him to his palace, stripped him of his power and had him arrested.
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
The B-29 Bomber that dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
The Memphis Belle
The Enola Gay
