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WorksheetsU16 World World II Ends - P7
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 2hrs 5mins
Who was the fascist dictator of Italy during World War II?
Francisco Franco
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Haile Selassie
What country is invaded by Italy in 1935?
Germany
Somalia
Ethiopia
Poland
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany in which decade?
1890s
1930s
1940s
1950s
During the Anschluss, Hitler annexes which country?
Germany
Austria
France
Poland
Which treaty does Hitler violate when he re-arms Germany? (Builds up the military)
Versailles
Brest-Litovsk
Tordesillas
Brunomars
What country was invaded by Germany in 1939? (This is thought by most historians to be the beginning of WWII.)
Germany
Austria
France
Poland
Who was the fascist dictator in Spain after the Spanish Civil War?
Francisco Franco
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Haile Selassie
What does the term “blitzkrieg” mean?
lightning war
lightning fast
lightning speed
lightning bolt
Wladyslaw Szpilman was a famous pianist who lived in the Warsaw
Ghetto. What country will you find the city of Warsaw?
Germany
Austria
France
Poland
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?
Francisco Franco
Adolf Hitler
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
What major event takes place on December 7, 1941?
D-day Invasion
Pearl Harbor Attack
Battle of Iwo Jima
Germany Surrenders
What is the Japanese word for “Divine Wind”?
Anschluss
Kamikaze
Iwo Jima
Nagasaki
How many Jews were estimated to have been killed during the Holocaust?
1 million
3 million
6 million
8 million
What’s the term used to describe a nation getting ready for war?
whatintarnation
carmelization
mobilization
notification
List the names of the “Big Three”.
Stalin, Franco, Roosevelt
Roosevelt, Churchill, Chamberlain
Roosevelt, Stalin, Eisenhower
Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill
Which U.S. President decides to end the war with Japan by using atomic bombs?
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George Bush
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman authorized dropping the atomic bomb on Japan because
he wanted to see if it would work
he thought an invasion would kill too many U.S. troops
he was concerned that Japan also had an atomic bomb
he was afraid Spain would get to Japan first.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor caused
Germany to enter the war
The United States to enter the war
Southeast Asia to fall to the Japanese
The European theater of war to become more important than fighting in the Pacific
What event ended the war in the Pacific?
The D-Day landing at Normandy
The arrest of Emperor Hirohito
The capture of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
When does World War II end? (year)
1918
1939
1941
1945
What happens June 6, 1944 on the beaches of northern France?
Pearl Harbor Attack
D-Day Invasion
World War II ends
Battle of Britain
Iwo Jima was important to the Allies because
It contained valuable mineral resources
Many Allied soldiers shed their blood on that soil
Trade ships from around the world docked at Iwo Jima’s ports
Japan used airfields on the island to support its naval forces
Definition- satisfying reasonable demands in exchange for peace
appeasement
anschluss
mobilization
demilitarization
Hitler’s largest extermination center in Poland
Dachau
Nordhausen
Mauthausen
Auschwitz/Birkenau
Hitler wanted to dominate other countries because he believed
other countries were trying to conquer Germany
Germany’s people were superior to everyone else
Germany’s natural resources were superior
the Treaty of Versailles would protect Germany
