Unit 9: World War II Test Review

Question 1

New international organization dedicated to representing each nation, keeping peace, and providing international relief.

Accepted Answer

United Nations

Question 2

This was the name of the first Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Accepted Answer

Little Boy

Question 3

After the German Invasion of France, Germany set up a puppet government in southern France that was known as:

Accepted Answer

Vichy France

Question 4

Agreement between Germany, Britain, & France-ended Sudetenland Crisis by offering Hitler the Sudetenland for peace

Accepted Answer

Munich Agreement

Question 5

What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

Accepted Answer

the Battle of Midway Island

Question 6

This man was the fascist leader of Italy during World War II

Accepted Answer

Benito Mussolini

Question 7

This man was the leader of Germany during World War II.

Accepted Answer

Adolf Hitler

Question 8

Which United States President made the decision to drop the Atomic Bombs on Japan?

Accepted Answer

Harry Truman

Question 9

Prime Minister of Britain for most of WWII, & led his country through the war with great leadership & inspiring speeches

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 10

______________ was a German military strategy aimed at taking the enemy by surprise.

Accepted Answer

Blitzkrieg

Question 11

Germany broke their Nonagression pact and invaded the Soviet Union with over 5.6 million soldiers. This was known as:

Accepted Answer

Operation Barbarossa

Question 12

Which of the following was NOT a member of the Big Three?

Accepted Answer

Neville Chamberlain

Question 13

Battle between U.S. Navy & Japan; Japan tried to invade a chain of islands northwest of Hawaii--lost 4 aircraft carriers

Accepted Answer

Battle of Midway

Question 14

This was also known as the “Battle of the Bulge”, and was Germany’s last attempt to push the Allies back.

Accepted Answer

Ardennes Offensive

Question 15

This was the region between the Rhine River and the French border that was reoccupied by Hitler in 1936.

Accepted Answer

Rhineland

Question 16

The Atomic Bomb was dropped on which two Japanese cities?

Accepted Answer

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 17

This was the deadliest concentration camp, and had the capacity to kill over 20,000 people each day.

Accepted Answer

Auschwitz

Question 18

Why was the German Invasion of Poland significant?

Accepted Answer

It marked the beginning of World War II

Question 19

Battle where Germany flew 1,000 planes a day over Britain & bombed military bases/cities as the 1st step to invasion

Accepted Answer

Battle of Britain

Question 20

This was a secret military project in the United States to develop the Atomic Bomb to use against Japan.

Accepted Answer

Manhattan Project

Question 21

Battle between the Germans & Soviets on the Volga River, Stalin ordered his soldiers to fight until the last man.

Accepted Answer

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 22

The United States entered World War II after the Japanese attack on:

Accepted Answer

Pearl Harbor

Question 23

This man was the ruler of the Soviet Union during World War II.

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stalin

Question 24

Part of Czechoslovakia that held many Germans. After Hitler attempted to take this land, France & Britain decided to act

Accepted Answer

Sudetenland

Question 25

This was the name of the second atomic bomb, dropped on the city of Nagasaki.

Accepted Answer

Fat man

Question 26

Bitter conference between the Big 3, where they agreed that a United Nations would be created & Germany would be divided

Accepted Answer

Yalta Conference

Question 27

Which of the following was not a reason the US opted to use the atomic bomb rather than invade Japan?

Accepted Answer

gain revenge for Pearl Harbor

Question 28

Nov. 1943: the Big 3 met to discuss the future of European nations. Tension 1st started to build between the three.

Accepted Answer

Tehran Conference

Question 29

Largest amphibious invasion in human history; Allies attempted to establish a 2nd front against Germany at Normandy

Accepted Answer

D-Day

Question 30

__________ are measures that are designed to stop trade with a specific country.

Accepted Answer

Sanctions

Question 31

The entire British Navy and merchant ships were sent to Dunkirk on the French coast to _____________________.

Accepted Answer

To help evacuate over 300,000 soldiers.

Question 32

Conference held outside of Berlin after the defeat of Germany; Churchill & Roosevelt were replaced by Atlee and Truman

Accepted Answer

Potsdam Conference

Question 33

Pacific Theater, U.S. would move through the Pacific, capturing 1 island at a time, until close enough to bomb Japan

Accepted Answer

Island Hopping

Question 34

What happened to Hitler at the end of World War II in Europe?

Accepted Answer

He committed suicide

Question 35

German&#x27;s broke through 40-mile gap in the French lines b/c of Germany’s unstoppable blitzkrieg, what happened to France?

Accepted Answer

It surrendered and fell under German occupation

Question 36

Prime Minister of Britain who attended the Munich Conference and tried to appease Hitler by giving him the Sudetenland.

Accepted Answer

Neville Chamberlain

Question 37

This man was the Emperor of Japan during World War II.

Accepted Answer

Hirohito

Question 38

To stop Hitler from gaining further land, France & Britain allowed him to obtain the Sudetenland. This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

Appeasement

Question 39

These three countries made up the Axis Powers:

Accepted Answer

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 40

This was the name of the airplane that dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima

Accepted Answer

Enola Gay

Question 41

This man was President of the United States for most of WWII, but died in 1945 from a sudden stroke before the war ended

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 42

Which of the following was NOT a main point of the Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pact?

Accepted Answer

The Soviet Union would exchange land to Germany for their neutrality.

Question 43

This was the term used to refer to the German Air Force.

Accepted Answer

Luftwaffe

Question 44

Treaty signed by Nazi Germany and The Soviet Union that stated the two countries would remain neutral to each other.

Accepted Answer

Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pac

Question 45

Which country was NOT a member of the Allied Powers?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 46

This man led the United States effort in the Pacific Theater, and fought mainly in the Philippines.

Accepted Answer

Douglas MacArthur

Question 47

This was the very first concentration camp, and was used as a model for other concentration camps.

Accepted Answer

Dachau

Question 48

Systematic extermination of over 12 million people, including over 6 million Jews, by Hitler & the Nazis during WWII.

Accepted Answer

Holocaust

Question 49

Italy made the first move toward war by invading which country?

Accepted Answer

Ethiopia

Question 50

During the ______________, many Nazi war criminals were tried and executed.

Accepted Answer

Nuremberg Trials

Unit 9: World War II Test Review

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Unit 9: World War II Test Review

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