WorksheetsWWII Review
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is isolationism?
What is a dictator?
A dictator is a leader who gains complete control of a country's government
Who took control of Germany in 1933?
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party
Who was blamed for WW1 and forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles?
What is fascism? What country believed in it?
Fascism promotes complete economic freedom.
The United States
Fascism is a left-wing political ideology.
Soviet Union
Fascism is a form of government in which individual freedoms are denied.
Germany
Fascism is a form of direct democracy.
Germany
Who were the 3 leaders of the Axis Powers?
Winston Churchill, Benito Mussolini, Harry Truman
Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin
Who declared war after Germany invaded Poland?
Who fell to the Germans in 1940, leaving Britain alone in Europe in the fight against the Axis Powers?
Who bombed Pearl Harbor the morning of December 7th, 1941? This led to the United States joining in the fight of WW2.
Fill in the blank: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941- a date which will live in ___"
What was the role of women in WW2?
Women were drafted to actively fight in the war.
Women helped by going to work to make weapons and other war related products.
The United States government decided to limit the amount of food each person could buy. What is this called?
Draft
Who was a symbolic representation of women who worked in factories and shipyards of the United States during WW2?
Who were the first African American Air Force pilots? Where did they train?
Tuskegee Airmen; they trained at an army base in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Who was the most famous scientist in WW2? Where did he escape from?
What government project was started to build atomic bombs during WW2?
What was Phase One of the Holocaust?
Nazi's forced all of the Jewish people into one are of town.
Jews were put on trains to concentration camps.
The Nazi's passed new laws to limit the rights of Jews in Germany.
What was Phase Two of the Holocaust?
The Nazi's passed new laws to limit the rights of Jews in Germany?
Nazi's forced all Jewish people into one are of town.
Jews were put on trains to concentration camps
What was Phase Three of the Holocaust?
The Nazi's passed new laws to limit the rights of Jews.
Nazi'z forced all of the Jewish people into one area of town.
Jews were put on trains to concentration camps.
What was the name of the Jewish girl that lived in the Netherlands during WW2 that wrote in a secret diary?
Rosie the Riveter
What was the Battle of Midway?
Japan chose to attack Midway Island. American fighter pilots spotted and destroyed Japanese aircraft.
Germany chose to attack Midway Island. American fighter pilots spotted and destroyed German aircraft.
A minor fight in World War I that occurred in 1918.
What is D-Day?
Japan chose to attack Midway Island on June 3rd, 1942.
Germany surrendered on May 8th, 1945
Allied invasion of German-controlled France during World War II on June 6, 1944.
Who the battle of the Bulge?
The Allied Powers
The Axis Powers
Neither the Allied nor Axis Powers
When was VE Day?
After the US Marines invaded Iwo Jima, Japan, the American forces attacked which Japanese island?
Which president decided to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan?
What marked the end of WWII?
VJ Day
VE Day
Iwo Jima
What is the United Nations?
A military alliance formed in 1945 to fight communism.
An organization formed to make sure there is peace in the world and to support human rights for everyone.
Which first lady helped create the United Nations and helped write the first Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
