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WorksheetsWW2 REVIEW
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 33mins
I took Germany from the depths of defeat in World War I to the height of superiority in the 1930s. My Nazi Party ricked havoc on the Jewish people.
Hitler
Mussolini
Drumpf
Churchill
I am a Fascist who rose to power in Italy in the 1930s. I led an invasion of Ethiopia and allied my country with Germany during World War II.
Hitler
Roosevelt
Mussolini
Drumpf
A government led by a dictator dominating society is?
fascimile
socialism
communism
totalitarianism
Which was not an Axis power?
Germany
Italy
Russia
Japan
What is the name of the agreement between France, Germany, and England trying to prevent was by giving Germany Czechoslovakia?
the Manchu Pack
the Munich Pact
the Mandarin Pact
the Mussolini Doctrine
What event spurred America to enter WW2?
the sinking of the Lusitania
the Munich Pact
Roosevelt's death
Pearl Harbor
Why did Russia enter WW2?
Germany violated Non-Aggression Pact
Hitler asked them to
Japan attacked them at Pearl Harbor
they didn't
what is blitzkrieg?
total war intended to cause swift victory
slow and steady war
trench warfare
the use of poison gas
What is this image trying to do?
get people to fight the Russians
get people to fight the Axis Powers
get people to fight France
get people to fight the Allied Powers
What does this show?
American Isolationism
America joining WW2
America's drive for global peace
the importance of sleep to a well balance life
What happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
atomic bombs were dropped
tanks were used to defeat the Japanese
Japanese killed many Chinese
Japanese conquered Vietnam
What kickstarted the second world war in Europe in 1939?
Germany invaded Poland
Germany invaded Japan
Germany invaded Britain
Germany invaded France
What major axis power leader had the vision of a “master race,” thus being one motivator for imperializing?
Joseph Stalin
Harry Truman
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
True or false: The Nazi regime only targeted Jewish People during the Holocaust.
True
False
The word appeasement refers to…
To please countries wants to refrain from war
To remain at peace with other countries to refrain from war
To refuse peace to start war
To refuse to repair damage caused by war
What is “blitzkrieg?”
"Lightning War"
"Blow Up War"
"Bombing War"
"Light Up War"
Who liberated the concentration camps of Europe in 1944?
Axis Powers
Allied Powers
France only
USA only
Why was Pearl Harbor important?
It had many pearls around it
It was a great tourist area
It was an American Naval Base and this forced USA into WW2
The President lived there
strategically conquering easily defeated islands in order to gain control of the Pacific
D-Day
Liberate
Island Hopping
Genocide
Use the information to answer the following question.
Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with the nation...The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. Very many American lives have been lost…
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 8, 1941
Based on the speech by President Roosevelt, what does he want Congress to do?
to end World War II
to declare war on Japan
to start arresting Japanese Americans
to start liberating concentration camps
What was the primary reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?
Japan wanted to capture American oil reserves
Japan wanted the destruction of American naval power in the Pacific
Japan wanted to force China to surrender more territory to the United States
Japan wanted to capture Hawaii as a base to launch an invasion of the United States
Use the information to answer the following question.
The Japanese ruling groups are aware of the desperate military situation...but still find unconditional surrender unacceptable. The basic policy of the present government is to fight as long and as desperately as possible in the hope of avoiding complete defeat and of acquiring a better bargaining position in a negotiated peace. The Japanese believe that unconditional surrender would be the equivalent of national extinction.
—Excerpt from a July 1945 report from members of the American Intelligence Community
Because of this report’s conclusions, what did American leaders decide?
the decision to use nuclear weapons
the decision to sell weapons to the Allies
the decision to intern Japanese Americans
the decision to use cluster bombs on cities
Use the outline to answer the following question.
The Battle of____________?_______________
● Only lost 1 United States carrier
● 6 months after Pearl Harbor
● Morale boost for United States troops
● Shifted the war in the Pacific
Which battle is described in the outline?
Battle of Midway
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Coral Sea
Why did President Truman choose to drop an atomic bomb on Japan instead of ordering a land invasion?
Japan’s geography would not allow a land invasion
American forces were too defeated for a land invasion.
A land invasion would result in too many American casualties.
It was not possible to supply troops with weapons for a land invasion.
Use the text to answer the following question.
...This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable-though much less certain-that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed…
Yours truly, Albert Einstein —Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Albert Einstein, 1939
How did the administration of President Roosevelt react to the information written in this letter?
proposing the Lend-Lease Act
creating the Manhattan Project
declaring war on the Axis powers
initiating the D-Day invasion of Europe
Why were the Normandy landings (D-Day) considered an important turning point in World War II?
They allowed the Allied Powers to attack all Germany’s forces at once
They helped the Allied Powers to reclaim immediate control of France
They forced Germany to fight on multiple fronts, which divided and weakened its military strength.
They showed the effectiveness and safety of beach invasions, which led to more successful Allied invasions.
What was the Great Depression?
A period of economic success and an improving economy
The worst economic catastrophe in U.S. history
A period of time that witnessed American involvement in violent foreign wars
A hotly contested presidential election
Which situation was a basic cause of the Great Depression?
excessive profits for farmers
overregulation of the stock market
overproduction of consumer goods
continued increases in wages for workers
Overproduction and underconsumption factored into causing the Great Depression by
causing falling prices on goods.
forcing a decrease in mechanization.
leading to more spending than saving.
scaring farmers into growing fewer crops.
Which action by the federal government was one cause of the Great Depression?
Failing to decrease the reserve requirement
Refusing to regulate the stock market
Abolishing the use of the gold standard
Eliminating tariffs on foreign trade
Which statement best describes how investment in the stock market during the mid-to-late 1920s contributed to the Great Depression?
People were unable to repay the loans used to purchase stocks.
Government taxes on stock transactions made it difficult to repay investors.
Financial institutions were not required to report earnings to stock investors.
Foreign countries were not required to immediately pay stockholder earnings.
He perfected mass production, making Model-T cars on an assembly line.
Andrew Carnegie
George Vanderbilt
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
How did the events on this timeline affect U.S. businesses?
Profit sharing became a standard practice for industrial corporations.
Monopolistic practices were abolished by federal legislation.
Mass-manufacturing techniques were adopted to maximize production.
Retirement plans were guaranteed to factory workers.
Where was the place the Jews were first moved to?
Projects
Concentrations Camps
Ghettos
Prisons
The deliberate destruction, in whole of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group is called
Holocaust
Genocide
Concentration Camp
Nuremberg Laws
Why was this night known as "the night of the broken glass"
Someone broke a glass cup and forgot to clean it up
The nazi's were playing baseball and broke a window
The nazi's broke through synagogues, schools, and other jewish buildings, and broken glass was all over the streets
The jews threw glass at SS officers as a protest
The Nuremberg Laws
separated Jews from German society
said Jews couldn't marry non-Jews
said Jews couldn't own businesses
all of the above
In 1938, Hitler forcibly annexed/"Anschluss" his home country of...
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Albania
Germany
The world was shocked when these two countries signed a Non-Aggression Pact in 1939.
England/France
Germany/Italy
Soviet Union/Germany
Germany/Austria
How did the other world leaders respond to Hitler's aggression?
Appeasement
Aggression
Military action
Negotiated peace terms
The lightning war of planes, tanks, and trained soldiers.
Holocaust
Blitzkreig
Trench Warfare
Final Solution
Germany started taking land that wasn't theirs. What was the first territory it took?
The Suddatenland
The Rhineland
Poland
France
What was the air force of Great Britain called?
The Royal Sky Force
The English Air Fighters
The Royal Air Force
The Flying Brits
The London Air Force
what cities did the U.S bomb?
London and manchester
mexico city and Tijuana
Berlin and Frankfurt
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
When was D-Day?
5 June 1943
5 June 1944
6 June 1943
6 June 1944
Where did it take place?
Dunkerque, close to the Belgiam border
The beaches of Normandy
In Brittany France
Just south of Calais
Why is the D-Day battle significant?
It was the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
It was the turning point of the war in Asia.
It liberated Western Europe.
It was the turning point of the war in Africa.
