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WorksheetsFall 2024 US History Semester Exam
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 28mins
Allied nations at the beginning of WWII.
United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia
United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy
Great Britain, France, Italy, and Spain
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Axis powers during WWII.
United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia
United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy
Great Britain, France, Italy, and Spain
Germany, Italy, and Japan
What major event on December 7th, 1941 caused the U.S. to enter WWII?
D-Day
German invasion of Poland
Pearl Harbor
The Munich Conference
What was the treaty that ended World War I?
Neutrality Treaty
Treaty of Ghent
Treaty of Versailles
Neutrality Treaty
What was the appeasement pact, by Britain and France, that gave up the Sudetenland to Hitler?
Munich Pact
Kellog Briand Pact
US Export Control Act
1921 Disarmament Treaty
A provision in the Neutrality Act of 1939 that allowed the United States to sell military supplies to countries at war on the condition that they pay for the supplies in cash and transport them on their own ships.
Credit System
Executive Order 8875
War Bonds
Cash and Carry
Meeting between allied leaders to discussed the post-war fate of defeated Germany and the rest of Europe.
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
United Nations
Paris Peace accords
A system that would allow the United States to provide war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."
War Bonds
Credit System
Lend-Lease Act
Executive Order 8875
Policy used by Britain and France to try and keep war from happening with Hitler.
Appeasement
Lend-Lease Act
Stall Tactics
Executive Order 8875
A military strategy used by the Allies during World War II to defeat the Empire of Japan in the Pacific.
Appeasement
Island-Hopping
D-Day
Midway Defensive Plan
What event is considered the start of WWII?
Fall of France
Pearl Harbor
D-Day
Invasion of Poland
A forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942:
Bataan Death March
Operation Barbarossa
Kamikaze
Tora, Tora, Tora
World War II era innovations include:
Atomic Bomb, Radar, and Penicillin
Atomic Bomb, Automobile, Penicillin
Atomic Bomb, Automobile, Aircraft
Automobile, Aircraft, Penicillin
The first atomic bombed was dropped by the United States was on this Japanese city.
Tokyo
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Okinawa
Lightning Warfare of Germans.
Blitzkrieg
Shock and Awe
Luftwaffe
Kamikaze
The mass slaughter of Jewish people and non-conformists by the Nazi Party in Germany.
Internment
Holocaust
Genocide
The Third Reich
How many people, is it estimated, were killed during the Holocaust.
6 million Jewish people and millions more non-conformist
around 1 million
close to 10 million
Around 600,000 Jewish people and 1 million non-conformist
1935 set of laws which prevented Jewish people from being a German citizen, going to school, and forced them to wear the Star of David.
Munich Laws
Internment Laws
Holocaust Laws
Nuremberg Laws
November 9, 1938, mobs destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jewish people throughout Germany. Translated as the “night of broken glass”.
Kristallnacht
Night of Terror
The Final Solution
Holocaust
Hitler’s program of systematically killed the entire Jewish race.
Kristallnacht
Night of Terror
The Final Solution
Holocaust
Dachau & Auschwitz are examples of
Jewish Ghettos
Concentration Camps
WWII Battles
Destroyed German Cities
Country created as a safe haven for Jewish people after WWII
Israel
Poland
East Germany
West Germany
Prison Camps where Japanese Americans were forced to live during WWII.
Internment Camps
Shanty Towns
Japanese Community Centers
Temporary Shelters
How many Japanese Americans were living in the U.S. in 1940 prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
50,000
100,000
127,000
1 Million
FDR signed this forcing all Japanese Americans to move from the west coast to 1of10 specific areas in the U.S.
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 1414
American Security Act
1941 Declaration of War
Rohwer and Jerome were Japanese Internment Camps located Where?
Virginia
Washington DC
Arkansas
Texas
Life in Interment Camps included:
Barrack style housing
Mess Halls
Schools
All of the Above
Hardships in Interment Camps included:
Hot Summers and Cold Winters
Work for $5 a day
few recreational activities
All of the Above
Japanese American military unit during WWII.
442nd Regimental Combat Team
77th Cavalry
Easy Company
101st Combat Battalion
Created and implemented a complex and secret form of communication for the U.S. military during WWII. The Japanese were never able to understand it.
Navajo Code Talkers
Tuskegee Airmen
Zoot Suits
Red Cross
During WWII, women contributed to the war effort on the homefront by:
Working in Factories
Planting Victory Gardens
Writing Letters to Soldiers
All of the Above
During WWII, women contributed to the war effort by:
becoming nurses
operating radios
driving trucks
All of the Above
In June of 1943, white servicemen attacked Mexican American men and communities
Zoot Suit Riots
L.A. Riots
California Riots
West Coast Riots
First African American aviators known as the Red Tails. Won 150 distinguished flying crosses.
Topgun Mavericks
Navajo Code Talkers
Zoot Suits
Tuskegee Airmen
Why were Japanese Americans targeted for separation from society during WWII?
Fear
Discrimination
Both are Correct
June 6th, 1944 Allies conduct an amphibious raid on the Nazi occupied beaches of Normandy, France. D-Day(Operation Overlord)
Battle of the Bulge
D-Day (Operation Overlord)
Occupation Free France
Battle of the Marne
Casualties of WWII
around 1 million
around 10 million
around 25 million
around 55 million
Cost of WWII
$100 million
$1 billion
$100 billion
$4.1 Trillion
Name of the secret project in Los Alamos, New Mexico to create the first atomic weapon.
Los Alamos Project
Area 51 Project
Oppenheimer Project
The Manhattan Project
(Will be matching) Match the following WWII leader to their country: Germany
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hedeki Tojo
(Will be matching) Match the following WWII leader to their country: Italy
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hedeki Tojo
(Will be matching) Match the following WWII leader to their country: Japan
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hedeki Tojo
(Will be matching) Match the following WWII leader to their country: Great Britain
Joseph Stalin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
(Will be matching) Match the following WWII leader to their country: United States
Joseph Stalin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
(Will be matching) Match the following WWII leader to their country: Soviet Union (Russia)
Joseph Stalin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
(Will be Matching) Match the following WWII event to the date that it took place.: Pearl Harbor
December 7 1941
May 7 1945
June 6 1944
August 6 1945
September 2 1945
(Will be Matching) Match the following WWII event to the date that it took place.: V-E Day
December 7 1941
May 7 1945
June 6 1944
August 6 1945
September 2 1945
(Will be Matching) Match the following WWII event to the date that it took place.: D-Day
December 7 1941
May 7 1945
June 6 1944
August 6 1945
September 2 1945
(Will be Matching) Match the following WWII event to the date that it took place.: 1st atomic bomb dropped
December 7 1941
May 7 1945
June 6 1944
August 6 1945
September 2 1945
(Will be Matching) Match the following WWII event to the date that it took place.: V-J Day
December 7 1941
May 7 1945
June 6 1944
August 6 1945
September 2 1945
Which battle is considered the turning point of the Pacific War?
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
The second atomic bomb was dropped on which Japanese City?
Hiroshima
Tokyo
Okinawa
Nagasaki
What was the significance of the Nuremberg Trials after the war?
They were used to prosecute war criminals and Nazi leaders
They were used to establish the borders of post-war Europe
They were held to negotiate peace with the Soviet Union
They were used to house the German prisoners of war
What was the primary reason that Japanese Americans were interned during World War II, despite many being U.S. citizens?
Their political views
Their involvement in Japanese military activities
Their ethnic background and perceived loyalty to Japan
Their financial ties to Japan
How many Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated and interned in camps during World War II?
20,000
120,000
100,000
50,000
Which U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of Japanese American internment during World War II?
Brown v. Board of Education
Roe v. Wade
Plessy v. Ferguson
Korematsu v. United States
