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WWII Review

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is isolationism?

a)
Isolationism is a policy of non-involvement in international affairs.
b)
Isolationism is a strategy for global trade expansion.
c)
Isolationism promotes military alliances with other countries.
d)
Isolationism encourages active participation in international organizations.
2.

What is a dictator?

a)
A dictator is a leader elected by the people.
b)
A dictator is a leader who shares power with a parliament.
c)
A dictator is a type of government that promotes freedom.
d)

A dictator is a leader who gains complete control of a country's government

3.

Who took control of Germany in 1933?

a)
Hermann Göring
b)
Joseph Goebbels
c)

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party

d)
Paul von Hindenburg
4.

Who was blamed for WW1 and forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles?

a)
Germany
b)
United States
c)
Russia
d)
France
5.

What is fascism? What country believed in it?

a)

Fascism promotes complete economic freedom.

The United States

b)

Fascism is a left-wing political ideology.

Soviet Union

c)

Fascism is a form of government in which individual freedoms are denied.

Germany

d)

Fascism is a form of direct democracy.

Germany

6.

Who were the 3 leaders of the Axis Powers?

a)
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito
b)

Winston Churchill, Benito Mussolini, Harry Truman

c)

Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

d)
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin
7.

Who declared war after Germany invaded Poland?

a)
The Soviet Union
b)
Italy and Japan
c)
The United States
d)
Britain and France
8.

Who fell to the Germans in 1940, leaving Britain alone in Europe in the fight against the Axis Powers?

a)
Italy
b)
Spain
c)
Belgium
d)
France
9.

Who bombed Pearl Harbor the morning of December 7th, 1941? This led to the United States joining in the fight of WW2.

a)
Germany
b)
Italy
c)
Japan
d)
Soviet Union
10.

Fill in the blank: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941- a date which will live in ___"

a)
silence
b)
glory
c)
history
d)
infamy
11.

What was the role of women in WW2?

a)
Women were primarily homemakers during the war.
b)
Women had no significant involvement in the military.
c)

Women were drafted to actively fight in the war.

d)

Women helped by going to work to make weapons and other war related products.

12.

The United States government decided to limit the amount of food each person could buy. What is this called?

a)
Rationing
b)
Food Stamp Program
c)
Price Control
d)

Draft

13.

Who was a symbolic representation of women who worked in factories and shipyards of the United States during WW2?

a)
Betty the Builder
b)
Sally the Shipwright
c)
Molly the Mechanic
d)
Rosie the Riveter
14.

Who were the first African American Air Force pilots? Where did they train?

a)
Freedom Flyers; they trained at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
b)
Black Eagles; they trained at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
c)

Tuskegee Airmen; they trained at an army base in Tuskegee, Alabama.

d)
Red Tails; they trained at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
15.

Who was the most famous scientist in WW2? Where did he escape from?

a)
Isaac Newton; he escaped from France.
b)
Niels Bohr; he escaped from Norway.
c)
Marie Curie; she escaped from Poland.
d)
Albert Einstein; he escaped from Germany.
16.

What government project was started to build atomic bombs during WW2?

a)
The Trinity Project
b)
The Apollo Program
c)
The Manhattan Initiative
d)
The Manhattan Project
17.

What was Phase One of the Holocaust?

a)

Nazi's forced all of the Jewish people into one are of town.

b)

Jews were put on trains to concentration camps.

c)

The Nazi's passed new laws to limit the rights of Jews in Germany.

18.

What was Phase Two of the Holocaust?

a)

The Nazi's passed new laws to limit the rights of Jews in Germany?

b)

Nazi's forced all Jewish people into one are of town.

c)

Jews were put on trains to concentration camps

19.

What was Phase Three of the Holocaust?

a)

The Nazi's passed new laws to limit the rights of Jews.

b)

Nazi'z forced all of the Jewish people into one area of town.

c)

Jews were put on trains to concentration camps.

20.

What was the name of the Jewish girl that lived in the Netherlands during WW2 that wrote in a secret diary?

a)
Margot Frank
b)
Hannah Arendt
c)
Anne Frank
d)

Rosie the Riveter

21.

What was the Battle of Midway?

a)

Japan chose to attack Midway Island. American fighter pilots spotted and destroyed Japanese aircraft.

b)

Germany chose to attack Midway Island. American fighter pilots spotted and destroyed German aircraft.

c)
A land battle fought in Europe during World War II.
d)

A minor fight in World War I that occurred in 1918.

22.

What is D-Day?

a)
A military strategy used in the Vietnam War
b)

Japan chose to attack Midway Island on June 3rd, 1942.

c)

Germany surrendered on May 8th, 1945

d)

Allied invasion of German-controlled France during World War II on June 6, 1944.

23.

Who the battle of the Bulge?

a)

The Allied Powers

b)

The Axis Powers

c)

Neither the Allied nor Axis Powers

24.

When was VE Day?

a)
June 6, 1944
b)
April 15, 1945
c)
August 15, 1945
d)
May 8, 1945
25.

After the US Marines invaded Iwo Jima, Japan, the American forces attacked which Japanese island?

a)
Honshu
b)
Kyushu
c)
Hokkaido
d)
Okinawa
26.

Which president decided to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan?

a)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
b)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
c)
John F. Kennedy
d)
Harry S. Truman
27.

What marked the end of WWII?

a)

VJ Day

b)
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
c)

VE Day

d)

Iwo Jima

28.

What is the United Nations?

a)
An environmental group established to combat climate change.
b)

A military alliance formed in 1945 to fight communism.

c)

An organization formed to make sure there is peace in the world and to support human rights for everyone.

d)
A global economic organization focused on trade agreements.
29.

Which first lady helped create the United Nations and helped write the first Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

a)
Eleanor Roosevelt
b)
Pat Nixon
c)
Michelle Obama
d)
Rosalynn Carter