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1
The Axis Powers of WW2 included:
Germany, Italy, Japan
Germany, Japan, France
Germany, Japan, Ottoman Empire
Germany, Italy, US
2
What US leader made the decision to use atomic bombs against Japan?
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Truman
Churchill
3
The leader of Great Britain during WW2 was:
Stalin
Churchill
Mussolini
Roosevelt
4
Major battle in Soviet Union in which Soviet troops defeated Germany; heavy casualties.
Battle of Britain
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Okinawa
5
The leader of Italy during WW2:
Roosevelt
Hirohito
Mussolini
Churchill
6
What event caused the US to declare war and begin fighting in WW2?
Bombing of Washington DC
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Sinking of the Lusitania
Bombing of London
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Germany planned to invade Great Britain after doing what?
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Prolonged aerial bombings
Amphibious assault
Atomic bombings
8
What was the Holocaust?
The catastrophe
The attempted extermination of the Jews by Germany
The final solution to the Jewish problem
All of these
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What joined Germany and Italy with Japan?
Lend-Lease Act
Tripartite Alliance
Treaty of Versailles
Non-Aggression Pact
10
Approximately how many Jews were murdered in the Holocaust?
6 million
1.5 million
11 million
5 million
11
What country used Kamikaze ("divine wind") attacks?
Great Britain
Germany
US
Japan
12
Who was the Allied commander of Europe?
Montgomery
Goring
Rommel
Eisenhower
13
On August 6, 1945, the US first dropped an atomic bomb on which Japanese city?
Berlin
Tokyo
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
14
Great Britain and the US signed what agreement for supplies?
Lend-Lease Act
Non-aggression pact
Buy-Sell Act
Supplies Act
15
Besides the blast and heat, what killed people after the atomic bombs were dropped?
Severe injuries
Lack of food and water
Radiation Poisoning
Burns
16
What did the Allies do to trick the Germans so D-Day could be successful?
Operation Bodyguard
All of these
Inflatable tanks
Capture of all German spies
17
Name of the German officer behind the concentration death camps
Goerring
Mengele
Hitler
Heinz
18
What battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
19
What was the "final solution" to the Germans' Jewish "problem"?
All of these
Sterilization
Deportation
Extermination
20
Allied project to bring foreign scientists to the US to develop new technologies.
Operation File Folder
Manhattan Project
Operation Bodyguard
Operation Stapler
21
Germany killed approximately how many people during the Holocaust?
5 million
11 million
6 million
3 million
22
The prime minister of Japan for most of WW2:
Churchill
Stalin
Tojo
Roosevelt
23
Walled-off areas of cities into which Jews were forced to move:
Projects
Concentration Camps
Ghettos
Internment Camps
24
World War 2 began when Germany invaded what country?
Czechoslovakia
France
Poland
Austria
25
What was Germany's last offensive against the Allied powers?
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Normandy
Battle of Britain
26
US strategy in the Pacific: bypass strongly held islands and attack weaker ones to gain bases.
Blitzkreig
Island Hopping
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Fire Bombing
27
Which nation lost at least 20 million people during WW2?
US
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Germany
28
What did the US do to Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor?
Sent them to Internment Camps
Nothing
Sent them back to Japan
Sent them to fight in Europe
29
Allied invasion of Normandy, France:
B-Day
Okinawa
D-Day
Pearl Harbor
30
The names of the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were?
Enola Gay and Little Boy
Little Man and Fat Boy
Alfred and Big John
Fat Man and Little Boy
31
The Cold War, clash between capitalism and communism, was between which two superpowers?
Germany and Japan
US and China
USSR and China
US and USSR
32
After which battle was the following photo taken?
Hiroshima
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Midway
33
The leader of the US for most of WW2:
Stalin
Churchill
Tojo
Roosevelt
34
The Allied Powers included:
Great Britain, Soviet Union, US
Great Britain, Soviet Union, Japan
Great Britain, Japan, US
Great Britain, US, Italy
35
The leader of Russia during WW2:
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stalin
Tojo
