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WWII Unit 8.
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What allowed American people to buy the new inventions of the 1920’s?
a) Using Credit
b) Prohibition
c) The Government controlled the prices
d) The Stock Market crashed
Which of the following is something a totalitarian leader would NOT do?
a) Censor the media (control what could be said)
b) Eliminate political enemies
c) Allow freedom of speech
d) Control what is being taught in all schools
How did the Great Depression lead to World War II?
a) The Depression caused Germany to abandon fascism and turn to communism.
b) Poland was angry over high taxes on its exports and attacked Germany.
c) Dictators claimed they could solve economic problems.
d) Germany and Italy attacked the United States because of the stock market crash.
Hitler and Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact which said what?
a) That Germany would get to control all of Poland
b) That Germany and the Soviet Union would split Poland and not fight each other
c) That Germany and the Soviet Union would fight over Poland
d) That the Soviet Union would get more of Poland
Which of the following are the main Axis Powers?
a) Japan, France, and Britain
b) France, Britain, and the U.S.
c) Japan, U.S., and the Soviet Union
d) Japan, Germany, and Italy
Which of the following are the main Allied Powers?
a) Japan, Britain, France and the Soviet Union
b) France, Britain, the U.S. and the Soviet Union
c) Japan, Germany, and Italy
d) Japan, France, Italy and Britain
What was the policy of giving in to an aggressor in order to keep peace that the Allies used towards Germany?
a) blitzkrieg
b) isolationism
c) militarism
d) appeasement
What is blitzkrieg?
a) Tactic used by the Germans to quickly attack with planes and tanks before invading on the ground
b) Strategy used by the Soviets to destroy crops and kill animals before retreating
c) Farms in the Soviet Union where people worked cooperatively to produce food
d) Allied strategy of conquering less defended islands as they made their way to Japan
What happened as a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941?
a) Germany declared war on Japan
b) The Americans declared war on the Axis powers
c) Japan surrendered to the Allies
d) The Soviet Union bombed Hiroshima
Why did the U.S. government decide to send Japanese Americans to internment camps during WWII?
a) They were illegally in the U.S.
b) They feared that the Japanese Americans were loyal to Japan and were spies
c) They did not have the same civil rights as other Americans
d) They were not helping the economy because they were all unemployed
What was the purpose of the D-Day invasion?
a) For the Allies to Bomb Berlin
b) For the Allies to help the Soviets on the Eastern Front
c) For the Allies to sink Japanese submarines
d) For the Allies to invade Normandy and free France
What happened shortly after the Allies drove Germany out of France?
a) Germany surrendered
b) Germany launched an all out attack on America
c) France attacks Great Britain
d) The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
What event in World War II led to the Japanese surrender and official end of the war?
a) Opening of Japanese internment camps
b) Hitler committing suicide
c) The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima Nagasaki
d) Allied troops storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day
Which of the following is NOT a reason Hitler and the Nazis targeted Jews and other groups during the Holocaust?
a) Hilter believed his plan of conquest was dependent upon the purity of the Aryan race.
b) Hitler blamed them for losing WWI and the economic hard times that followed WWI.
c) Hitler believed these peoples had superior culture.
d) Hitler believed these peoples were inferior (not as good as them).
The United Nations was formed after World War II. Why was it created?
a) To split up Japan territory after World War II
b) To maintain peace and world relations
c) To allow the winners to control all aspects of the world
d) To enforce the Treaty of Versailles
Which of the following descriptions best describes Genocide?
a) An unplanned killing of a majority group so the minority group gains power
b) A systematic killing and eliminating of an entire group of people
c) A random killing specifically focused on women and children
d) Any violent action that takes place
Which of the following is another group targeted by the Nazis?
a) Members of the LGBTQ + community
b) People with mental and physical disabilities
c) People of African descent
d) All of the above
Which of the following groups of people contributed to the Allied victory?
a) Members of different ethnic backgrounds
b) Members of the LGBTQ + community
c) Women
d) All of the above
Put the following World War II events in the correct chronological order
a) Creation of the U.N, Blitzkrieg (attack of Poland), Pearl Harbor, German Soviet Non aggression pact
b) Blitzkrieg (attack of Poland), Creation of the UN, German Soviet Non aggression pact, Pearl Harbor
c) German Soviet Non aggression pact, Blitzkrieg (attack of Poland), Pearl Harbor, Creation of the U.N
d) Pearl Harbor, Blitzkrieg (attack of Poland), German Soviet non aggression pact, Creation of the U.N
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