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Who was the leader of Germany and the Nazi Party?
a) Benito Mussolini
b) Adolf Hitler
c) Joseph Stalin
d) Emperor Hirohito

Who made up the Axis Powers?
a) Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union
b) United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union
c) Italy, Japan, and the United States
d) Germany, Italy, Japan

Who made up the Allied Powers?
a) United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and France
b) Italy, Japan, and the United States
c) Germany, Italy, Japan
d) Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union

On December 7, 1941 Japanese airplanes made a surprise attack on the US naval base at ___________________.
a) Iwo Jima
b) Pearl Harbor
c) Nagasaki
d) Kamikazes

How did the use of atomic bombs impact the outcome of WWII?
a) Germany was forced to surrender.
b) Germany was forced to retreat fro Western Europe.
c) Japan was forced to surrender.
d) Japan was forced to retreat from the Pacific Islands.

What were concentration camps?
a) Places where Jews and others were imprisoned and murdered.
b) Ghettos in which many Jews were forced to live.
c) Places where Japanese Americans were relocated.
d) Secret hiding places where people hid from the Nazis.

What did most families in the United States have to do during the war to limit their use of goods?
a) Nothing; they spent the same as they did before the war.
b) Started working in factories
c) Sold their belongings
d) Rationed their supplies

Which term is used to describe women who went to work in factories while the men went to fight in war?
a) Rebecca the Radical
b) Rosie the Riveter
c) Susie the Strong
d) Patty the Powerful

What was the name of the African American pilots who fought during World War II?
a) The Normandy Airmen
b) The Thomasville Airmen
c) The Tuskegee Airmen
d) The Riveter Airmen

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party had a plan to execute all the Jews. Why did they want to get rid of all of them?
a) They thought Jews believed the wrong thing.
b) They blamed Jews for Germany losing WWI and the Great Depression.
c) They thought they were spending too much of Germany's money.
d) All of the above

The largest invasion which took place in Normandy, France in which the allies stormed the beaches to fight the Germany is called what?
a) Pearl Harbor
b) Iwo Jima
c) D-Day
d) Battle of Midway

The Holocaust can best be described as...
a) The Japanese plan to rid the world of all the Jews.
b) Hitler's plan to take over Europe and increase Germany's power.
c) The millions of people who were killed as the result of fighting in World War II.
d) Germany's plan to kill millions of people, most of which were Jews.

Who was the leader of Italy?
a) Benito Mussolini
b) Adolf Hitler
c) Harry S. Truman
d) Emperor Hirohito

Which famous American was considered one of the most influential people of the United Nations?
a) Harry S. Truman
b) Eleanor Roosevelt
c) Hillary Clinton
d) President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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