WorksheetsWWII Review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
In what year did World War Two start?
1918
1945
1939
1492
What was the Allied invasion of France called?
Operation Barbarosa
Operation Overlord
Operation France
Rhineland Takeover
Who was the last to surrender on the Axis in World War Two?
Japan
Italy
Germany
Hungary
Romania
Why did the USA join World War Two?
Germany attacked New York
Japan bombed Pearl Harbour
Italy took over Florida
Germany told Mexico to attack the USA
What event officially started World War II?
France Declares War On Germany
Germany Invades Poland
Germany Invades Poland
Japan Attacks China
Joseph Stalin was dictator of which country?
Poland
Finland
USSR
Georgia (The country)
Benito Mussolini was the dictator of which country?
Bulgaria
Romania
Germany
Italy
What were the three main axis nations?
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Japan
Turkey
Italy
What was the name of the battle that denied Germany air control over the English Channel?
Battle of Dunkirk
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Channel
Siege of England
What event pushed the United States into World War II?
A. Germany’s invasion of Poland
B. Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia
C. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor
D. rumors of the Holocaust
Who was the leader of Japan?
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Emperor Hirohito
Benito Mussolini
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 deliberate destruction, in whole of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group is called
Holocaust
Genocide
Concentration Camp
Nuremberg Laws
How did the United States treat Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
They were removed from the US military
They were removed from their homes
They were put into internment camps
All of the Above
When was the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
December 7,1953
December 7, 1941
Never, Pearl Harbor wasn't bombed
December 7, 1946
Where is Pearl Harbor?
Japan
Hawaii
Alaska
New York
Who was the president during this time?
Franklin Roosevelt
Donald Trump
Barack Obama
Ronald Reagan
What was Executive Order 9066?
It allowed Japanese Americans to keep their homes.
It allowed the government to move Japanese Americans into camps.
It allowed Japanese Americans to join the US Military.
It allowed Japanese Americans to move to a new home in Hawaii.
This group of people were detained and isolated to the middle of the United States
Native Americans
Latinos
African Americans
Japanese Americans
This group of people fought with the Tuskegee Airman and destroyed more than 250 enemy planes
Native Americans
Latinos
African Americans
Japanese Americans
This example of propaganda was used to encourage
women to join the army and fight
women to stay at home with their families
men to join the army and fight
women to join the workforce
People who do not fight in the war but support the fighting of a war by working in factories, rationing, growing victory gardens
total war
homefront
Pearl Harbor
Japanese Internment Camp
A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort
total war
homefront
Pearl Harbor
Japanese Internment Camp
The main reason the United States entered World War II was to
gain additional overseas territories
stop totalitarian aggression
honor its treaty commitments
spread capitalist economic ideas to poor nations
What are loans that people bought to support the soldiers on the frontlines called?
War Loans
Battle Loans
War Bonds
Battle Cash
What battle was the famous U.S. Marine flag picture taken at?
Pearl Harbor
D-Day
Battle of Midway
Iwo Jima
What event mostly led to U.S. involvement in WWII?
The Invasion of Poland
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Treatment of Jews in Germany
What Military strategy did the Allies use to combat Japan in the Pacific?
Blitzkrieg
Island Hopping
Tunneling
Giving in to an aggressive country to avoid war
Lend Lease Act
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg
Cash and Carry
Law that gave the government the power to give weapons to the Allies
Lend Lease Act
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg
Cash and Carry
Hitler and the Nazis rise to power in Germany, Mussolini’s thing over in Italy, and Stalin’s control in the USSR are examples of what type of government?
Oligarchy
Democracy
Theocracy
Totalitarian
What event caused the start of World War II?
Germany invades France.
Britain defend itself against Germany.
Germany invades Poland.
A German U-boat sinks the Lusitania.
Japan invaded, Korea, and China to expand their empire and gain more _______, _________, especially oil.
natural resources
fascist dictators
military victories
world power
Early in the war Germany was successful using this tactic that means 'lightning war'. Tanks and airplanes would attack a specific weak point in the enemy lines
Blitzkrieg
Island hopping
Trench warfare
Mass Destruction
America entered WWII on Dec. 8 1941 the day after Japan attacked the navy base at ________ _______
Pearl Harbor
San Francisco
Washington DC
Los Angeles
The D-Day invasion landed on the French beaches at _________
Paris
Normandy
Dunkirk
London
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the development of this weapon.
atomic bomb
jet engine
rocket
nuclear submarine
President who takes office after FDR's sudden death
Herbert Hoover
Harry S. Truman
John F Kennedy
George Bush
The plan to gradually overtake small islands of the Pacific in order to get to Japan
Japan Hopping
Pacific Fleet
Island Jumping
Island Hopping
WWII officially ends costing ____________ lives.
20 million
40-50 million
200-300 thousand
1 million
What were the names for the CAMPS where the U.S. government placed Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Internment Camps
Concentration Camps
