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WW2 Vocab.

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
  1.  fascist dictator of Italy who signed a treaty with Adolf Hitler and joined the Axis Powers 

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

2.

One leader has complete control over the whole government and military

a)

Oligarchy

b)

Totalitarianism

c)

Monarchy

d)

Democracy

3.

Prime Minister (Dictator) of Japan

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Hideki Tojo

d)

Adolf Hitler

4.

money used to buy these helped the American government pay for WWII

a)

War Bonds

b)

Manhattan Project

c)

Justice Bonds

5.

people encouraged to grow food in their own gardens to free up food from American farms for the military

a)

Victory Garden

b)

Manhattan Project

c)

Farms

d)

Pearl Harbor


6.
  1. dividing the total amount of food and supplies so that everyone gets a fair share 

a)

Food Stamps

b)

Propaganda 


c)

Victory Garden

d)

Rationing

7.
  1. Nazi dictator of Germany

a)

Hideki Tojo

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Benito Mussolini

d)

Joseph Stalin

8.
  1. December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. causing the U.S. to enter WWII

a)

Pearl Harbor

b)

Executive Order 9099

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Bataan Death March

9.
  1.  media used primarily by the government to rally the public to support their cause or agenda

a)

Manhattan Project

b)

War Bonds

c)

Propaganda

d)

T.V. News

10.
  1. signed by President FDR in order to forcibly relocate Japanese American families to internment camps in the Great Plains region

a)

Executive Order 9099

b)

Justice Order 9090

c)

Propaganda

d)

Bataan Death March

11.

The citizenship rights from which Constitutional Amendment were violated with the passage of Executive Order 9066?

a)

Latin Americans

b)

Japanese Americans

c)

Chinese Americans

d)

African Americans

12.
  1. Which country started World War II when they invaded Poland in 1939? 

a)

Germany

b)

Russia

c)

Great Britian

d)

Japan

13.
  1. One of the first African American men to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery in WWII

a)

Benito Mussolini 


b)

Omar Bradley

c)

Vernon Baker


d)

General Dwight D. Eisenhower


14.
  1. Supreme commander of all Allied forces at D-Day

a)

Hideki Tojo

b)

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

Omar Bradley 


d)

Vernon Baker


15.
  1. June 6, 1944, the first major Allied invasion of Nazi occupied France

  2. in an attempt to drive the Nazis out 

a)

Bataan Death March

b)

Manhattan Project

c)

D-Day


d)

Battle of Midway

16.

American volunteer fighter pilots who were used to protect trade with China before the US officially joined the war

a)

Tuskegee Airmen

b)

Volunteer Flyers

c)

Flying Tigers


d)

Navajo Code Talkers


17.

Used their native language to send and receive top secret military information for the U.S. Marines

a)

Navajo Code Talkers


b)

Flying Tigers

c)

Manhattan Project

d)

slang

18.

 Commander of American forces at D-Day

a)

Omar Bradley

b)

Vernon Baker

c)

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

19.
  1. Segregated portion of fighter pilots in the American Navy  

a)

 Flying Tigers


b)

Tuskegee Airmen


c)

Navajo Code Talkers

20.
  1. Top secret project in which the American government produced the atomic bomb

a)

Manhattan Project

b)

Magic bomb

c)

ATO Bomb

d)

Secret Project

21.
  1. Many American and Filipino soldiers taken prisoner by Japanese Forces in the Philippines die while traveling to prison camps on the island

a)

D-Day


b)

Battle of Midway

c)

Manhattan Project

d)

Bataan Death March

22.
  1.  American victory against the Japanese became the turning point in the war in the Pacific 

a)

Battle of Midway


b)

Bataan Death March

c)

Battle of the Bulge

23.
  1. What is the name for the Nazi’s “Final Solution” in which they attempted a genocide against European Jews? 

a)

Holocaust

b)

Japanese Internment Camps

c)

Nazi Party

24.

 Two Japanese cities that were attacked by the American atomic bombs?

a)

Yokohama &  Nagasaki 

b)

  Hiroshima   &  Nagasaki 

c)

Osaka & Nagasaki