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U16 World World II Ends - P7

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 2hrs 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the fascist dictator of Italy during World War II?

a)

Francisco Franco     

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Haile Selassie

2.

What country is invaded by Italy in 1935?

a)

Germany

b)

Somalia

c)

Ethiopia

d)

Poland

3.

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany in which decade?

a)

1890s

b)

1930s

c)

1940s

d)

1950s

4.

During the Anschluss, Hitler annexes which country?

a)

Germany

b)

Austria

c)

France

d)

Poland

5.

Which treaty does Hitler violate when he re-arms Germany? (Builds up the military)

a)

Versailles       

b)

Brest-Litovsk

c)

Tordesillas

d)

Brunomars

6.

What country was invaded by Germany in 1939? (This is thought by most historians to be the beginning of WWII.)

a)

Germany

b)

Austria

c)

France

d)

Poland

7.

 

Who was the fascist dictator in Spain after the Spanish Civil War?

a)

Francisco Franco

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Benito Mussolini

d)

Haile Selassie

8.

What does the term “blitzkrieg” mean?

a)

lightning war

b)

lightning fast

c)

lightning speed

d)

lightning bolt

9.

Wladyslaw Szpilman was a famous pianist who lived in the Warsaw

 Ghetto.  What country will you find the city of Warsaw?

a)

Germany

b)

Austria

c)

France

d)

Poland

10.

Who was the statesman that succeeded (came after) Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister and won the support of the British people after his famed “Finest Hour” speech?

a)

Francisco Franco     

b)

Adolf Hitler

c)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

Winston Churchill

11.

What major event takes place on December 7, 1941?

a)

D-day Invasion

b)

Pearl Harbor Attack

c)

Battle of Iwo Jima

d)

Germany Surrenders

12.

What is the Japanese word for “Divine Wind”?

a)

Anschluss      

b)

Kamikaze

c)

Iwo Jima

d)

Nagasaki

13.

How many Jews were estimated to have been killed during the Holocaust?

a)

1 million

b)

3 million

c)

6 million

d)

8 million

14.

What’s the term used to describe a nation getting ready for war?

a)

whatintarnation

b)

carmelization

c)

mobilization

d)

notification

15.

List the names of the “Big Three”.

a)

Stalin, Franco, Roosevelt     

b)

Roosevelt, Churchill, Chamberlain

c)

Roosevelt, Stalin, Eisenhower

d)

Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill

16.

Which U.S. President decides to end the war with Japan by using atomic bombs?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

George Bush

d)

Harry S. Truman

17.

Harry S. Truman authorized dropping the atomic bomb on Japan because

a)

he wanted to see if it would work

b)

he thought an invasion would kill too many U.S. troops

c)

he was concerned that Japan also had an atomic bomb

d)

he was afraid Spain would get to Japan first.

18.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor caused

a)

Germany to enter the war

b)

The United States to enter the war

c)

Southeast Asia to fall to the Japanese

d)

The European theater of war to become more important than fighting in the Pacific

19.

What event ended the war in the Pacific?

a)

The D-Day landing at Normandy

b)

The arrest of Emperor Hirohito

c)

The capture of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

d)

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

20.

When does World War II end? (year)

a)

1918

b)

1939

c)

1941

d)

1945

21.

What happens June 6, 1944 on the beaches of northern France?

a)

Pearl Harbor Attack

b)

D-Day Invasion

c)

World War II ends

d)

Battle of Britain

22.

Iwo Jima was important to the Allies because

a)

It contained valuable mineral resources

b)

Many Allied soldiers shed their blood on that soil

c)

Trade ships from around the world docked at Iwo Jima’s ports

d)

Japan used airfields on the island to support its naval forces

23.

Definition- satisfying reasonable demands in exchange for peace

a)

appeasement

b)

anschluss

c)

mobilization

d)

demilitarization

24.

Hitler’s largest extermination center in Poland

a)

Dachau

b)

Nordhausen

c)

Mauthausen

d)

Auschwitz/Birkenau

25.

Hitler wanted to dominate other countries because he believed

a)

other countries were trying to conquer Germany

b)

Germany’s people were superior to everyone else

c)

Germany’s natural resources were superior

d)

the Treaty of Versailles would protect Germany