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Beacon History - WWII - Pts 1-7

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He established a totalitarian state in Italy.

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Francisco Franco

2.

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. 

a)

The Soviet Union

b)

France

3.

His name means “Man of Steel”, after V.I Lenin died, he took over the Soviet Union.

a)

Josef Stalin

b)

Adolf Hitler

4.

Hitler believed Germany especially this group formed a master race and was destined to rule the world

a)

Jews

b)

Aryans

5.

The ousted leader of Ethiopia he told the league of nations,  “It is us today, it will be you tomorrow”

a)

Eluid Kipchoge

b)

Haile Selassie

6.

The border region of Czechoslovakia where about 3 million German speaking people lived.

a)

Austria

b)

The Sudetenland

7.

This country saw nothing fair in a treaty that blamed them for starting WWI.

a)

Germany

b)

France

8.

Loyalty to one’s country above all else and dreams of territorial expansion.

a)

Imperialism

b)

Nationalism

9.

This turned the Sudetenland over to Germany without a single shot being fired. 

a)

The Munich Agreement

b)

The Warsaw Pact

10.

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.

a)

Blitzkrieg

b)

Luftwaffe

11.

The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews.

a)

The Annihilation

b)

The Holocaust

12.

The nations of Germany, Italy and Japan became known as this.

a)

Axis Powers

b)

Allied Powers

13.

Meaning the night of the broke glass, It was when Nazi stormtroopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany

a)

Kristallnacht

b)

Night of Terror

14.

The plan to invade France began with an attack on this place in Northern France

a)

Dunkirk

b)

Normandy

15.

He led 16 Bombers on an attack on Tokyo and other Japanese cities on April 18, 1942

a)

Erwin Rommel

b)

James Doolittle

16.

Hitler hoped to capture these in the Caucasus Mountains

a)

Soviet Oil Fields

b)

Soviet Soldiers

17.

The code name for research on the Atomic Bomb was called this.

a)

Operation Kaboom

b)

The Manhattan Project

18.

American citizens who emigrated from Japan

a)

Nisei

b)

Luftwaffe

19.

African American pilots of the 99th Pursuit Squadron, they won two distinguished unit citations.

a)

The Buffaloes

b)

Tuskegee Airmen

20.

The name given to the plan to invade France

a)

Operation Overlord

b)

Operation Torch

21.

The Desert Fox, he led the Afrika Corps

a)

George Patton

b)

Erwin Rommel

22.

He did not live to see V-E Day, having died from a stroke a month earlier

a)

Harry S. Truman

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

23.

The most significant achievement of the OSRD was the secret development of this

a)

Stealth Bomber

b)

Atomic Bomb

24.

On July 25, 1943 The King of Italy summoned him to his palace, stripped him of his power and had him arrested.

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Adolf Hitler

25.

The B-29 Bomber that dropped an atomic bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

a)

The Memphis Belle

b)

The Enola Gay