Distance Learning 2020--WWII Question Preview (ID: 51363)


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What was the Manhattan Project?
a) Secret plan to assassinate Hitler
b) Secret plan to build the atomic bomb
c) Secret plan to put Japanese-Americans into camps
d)

What strategy did the U.S. use to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific?
a) Blitzkrieg
b) Kamikaze attacks
c) Island-Hopping
d)

Japanese suicide pilots were known as:
a) Blitzkrieg
b) Holocaust
c) Kristallnacht
d) Kamikaze

Which of the following terms is used for the murder of 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews by the Nazis during WWII?
a) Holocaust
b) Kamikaze
c) Blitzkrieg
d) Mein Kampf

Which of the following was the ¨night of broken glass pogrom that destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues in Germany and Austria?
a) Mein Kampf
b) Kristallnacht
c) Blitzkrieg
d) Nuremberg Laws

Which of the following stripped German Jews of their citizenship?
a) Kristallnacht
b) Blitzkrieg
c) Nuremberg Laws
d) Mein Kampf

What is Mein Kampf?
a) Rapid military attack from land and air
b) A Nazi attack on Jewish businesses
c) Laws that stripped German Jews of citizenship
d) A book written by Hitler in which he explains his beliefs

Who was the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany during WWII?
a) Hitler
b) Stalin
c) Churchill
d) Mussolini

May 8, 1945 was known as V-E Day. What happened on this date?
a) Allies invaded German-held France
b) Germany surrendered ending WWII in Europe
c) US dropped atomic bomb on Japan ending WWII in the Pacific
d) Japan attacked US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

June 6, 1944 is known as D-Day. What happened on that date?
a) Japan attacked US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
b) Germany began bombing Great Britain
c) Allies invaded German-held France
d) US dropped atomic bomb on Japan

Which of the following battles is considered a turning point of the war in Europe because it stopped the German advance?
a) Battle of Midway
b) Battle of Stalingrad
c) D-Day Invasion
d) Battle of El Alamein

The Allies began their campaign against Germany in _________, because German defenses were weakest there.
a) France
b) Italy
c) Soviet Union
d) North Africa

What key event took place on December 7, 1941?
a) The Allies invaded German-held France
b) Germany invaded the Soviet Union
c) Atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo
d) Japan attacked US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

During WWII, the United States fought on the side of the _______.
a) Allied Powers
b) Central Powers
c) Axis Powers
d)

During World War II, Germany, Japan, and Italy were known as the _________.
a) Allied Powers
b) Central Powers
c) Axis Powers
d)

What is a swastika?
a) Japanese suicide bomber
b) Symbol used by Germany's Nazi Party
c) A newly recruited soldier
d) Rapid military attack from land and air

Which of the following world leaders were ¨fascists?¨
a) Hitler and Roosevelt
b) Mussolini and Churchill
c) Mussolini and Hitler
d) Stalin and Churchill

Which of the following terms best describes how Germans felt about the requirements of the Treaty of Versailles that officially ended World War I?
a) Angry
b) Happy
c) Confused
d) Peaceful

President Truman used atomic bombs against Japan to send a strong message to what world leader?
a) Stalin of the Soviet Union
b) Churchill of Great Britain
c) Hitler of Germany
d) Mussolini of Italy

Which of the following were the Japanese cities that were destroyed by atomic bombs?
a) Tokyo and Kyoto
b) Tokyo and Nagasaki
c) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
d) Hiroshima and Kyoto

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