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1
Americans on the home front did all of these things, EXCEPT:
rationed gasoline
bought war bonds
planted victory gardens
protested the war
2
Which of these quotes would all fascists agree with?
"Government should own all factories and farms."
"Germans are the master race."
"A strong dictatorship is the best form of government."
"The purpose of government is to protect people's rights."
3
What did the Allied Powers do with Germany during the post-war period?
divided it in half
divided it into 4 zones
made them pay reparations
evacuated the nation
4
Which group of people were forced into internment camps during the war?
Russian
Japanese
German
Italian
5
What event led FDR to say: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy..."?
German invasion of Poland
German attack on France
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack on China
6
Name the Supreme Allied Commander who launched D-Day, the amphibious landing at Normandy?
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Omar Bradley
7
Which Axis nation is NOT correctly paired with its leader?
Italy: Mussolini
Japan: Chang Kai-Shek
Germany: Hitler
8
Britain and France declared war on Germany after they invaded this nation:
Norway & Denmark
Poland
Austria
Sudetenland (Czech.)
9
How many total casualties (killed, wounded & missing) were lost in WWII?
5 million
85 million
20 million
1.5 billion
10
To get within bombing range of Japan, MacArthur used this strategy:
Ring of Fire
Island-hopping
Blitzkrieg
Siege
11
What nation was the United States most worried about during the post-WWII period?
Italy
Soviet Union
Germany
Japan
12
US foreign policy changed in the years before the war. Which one best completes the chart?
Big Stick Diplomacy
Manifest Destiny
Dollar Diplomacy
Isolationism
13
What happened on June 6th 1944, that turned the tide by opening a front in Western Europe?
D-Day
Iwo Jima
V-E Day
Battle of Stalingrad
14
Which phrase best completes the chart of Nazi policies that led to the Holocaust?
The Warsaw Uprising of Jews
Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin Bunker
anti-Semitism and the Aryan "Master Race"
The Nazi-Soviet Pact to divide Poland
15
The Battle of Britain began when London was bombed by:
Germany
Soviet Union
France
Japan
16
Which scientist organized the development of the Atomic Bomb?
Julius Rosenberg
Albert Einstein
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Andrei Sakharov
17
What international peace-keeping body was formed after WWII?
League of Nations
OPEC
Warsaw Pact
United Nations
18
Which Allied Power was the first to fall to Nazi Germany?
Britain
France
Spain
Italy
19
A harsh winter proved fatal to Germany's invasion of the USSR. Name this turning point battle.
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Kursk
Siege of Leningrad
20
Which term describes the Allied response to Hitler's aggression leading up to the war?
National self-determination
Reparations
Lend-Lease program
Appeasement
21
Which of the following was NOT a cause of WWII?
the rise of facism
a worldwide depression
The Holocaust
Germany's anger of the Versailles Treaty
22
Which of the following Allies is NOT matched correctly with its leader?
United States: Roosevelt
Britain: Mussolini
United States: Truman
Soviet Union: Stalin
23
Which of the following does NOT belong to the Axis Powers?
Germany
Soviet Union
Japan
Italy
24
The US defeated the Japanese Navy in this battle, which became a turning point in the Pacific.
Battle of Okinowa
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Midway
25
What held war criminals accountable for their crimes during WWII?
Nuremberg Trials
League of Nations
United Nations
Berlin Trials
26
During WWII which group of Americans saw racial barriers temporarily come down?
African Americans
Jewish immigrants
American Indians
Irish Catholics
27
What caused widespread destruction and forced Japan to surrender, ending WWII?
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Kamikazi pilots bombing US ships
Battle of Okinowa
The Doolittle Raid over Tokyo
28
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a secret deal to conquer and divide which nation?
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Romania
29
Who is the famous character used to promote women working to support the war?
Ethel the Engineer
Rosie the Riveter
Amelia Earhart
Eleanor Roosevelt
30
Which of the following does NOT belong to the Allied Powers?
Soviet Union
Italy
Canada
Britain
