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Name: ________________________ Class: ___________________ Date: __________ ID: A World War II (1939-1945) Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Which country signed a nonaggression pact with Germany? a. Russia c. Italy b. Japan d. Poland Destruction of Hiroshima, 1945 ____ 2. Which U.S. president made the decision to drop the atomic bomb to end World War II? a. Harry S. Truman c. John F. Kennedy b. Franklin D. Roosevelt d. Douglas McCarthy ____ 3. Hitler demanded, and was given, what area in northwestern Czechoslovakia? a. Slovakia c. Serbia b. Danzig d. Sudetenland 1 Name: ________________________ ID: A ____ 4. Two days after Hitler’s invasion of ____, Britain and France declared war on Germany. a. Poland c. France b. Austria d. Slovakia ____ 5. Hitler’s blitzkrieg, or “lightning war,” was a. a new form of warfare that used airplanes exclusively for the first wave of attack. b. a form of attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks. c. a strategy in which armies rested very little between attacks to wear the enemy down more quickly. d. an air force strategy that combined jets and helicopters in a single attack. ____ 6. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese a. launched a full-scale invasion of southern China. b. attacked the British colony on the Bataan Peninsula. c. launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. d. invaded Alaska. ____ 7. What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific? a. the Battle of Iwo Jima c. the Battle of the Coral Sea b. the Battle of Dunkirk d. the Battle of Midway Island ____ 8. ____ administered the Nazi Final Solution. a. Heinrich Himmler c. Adolf Hitler b. Reinhard Heydrich d. Heinrich Strasser ____ 9. When the Einsatzgruppen proved to be too slow for the Nazis, they a. built special extermination camps in Poland. b. tried to speed them up using zeppelins. c. gave up and focused their attention on the Soviet front. d. invaded England. ____ 10. In order to address labor shortages during the war, Japan a. developed robots. b. allowed women to hold jobs from which they had previously been banned. c. brought in Korean and Chinese laborers. d. forced workers to work double and sometimes even triple shifts. ____ 11. At the Tehran Conference, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill decided to a. establish a League of Nations organization after the war. b. defeat Germany and then unite against China. c. end the League of Nations mandates over the Middle Eastern countries. d. make a final assault on postwar Germany. ____ 12. At the Potsdam Conference, Truman demanded ____ throughout Eastern Europe. a. a joint British-Russian military presence b. freely elected governments c. the reestablishment of the prewar national boundaries d. widespread demilitarization 2 Name: ________________________ ID: A ____ 13. Great Britain’s policy of ____ toward Germany was based on the belief that the satisfaction of reasonable demands would maintain peace in Europe. a. firm resistance c. appeasement b. detente d. Anschluss ____ 14. Neville Chamberlain boasted that the Munich Conference meant a. Great Britain had made Germany back down. b. “peace for our time.” c. Germany and Russia were allies. d. “safety for Mother England.” ____ 15. The “Mukden incident,” which Japan used as an excuse to seize Manchuria, was a. an attack on a Japanese railway by Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese. b. the accidental sinking of the Mongolian merchant ship Mukden by a Chinese warship. c. the murder of a Japanese soldier in Mukden. d. a labor strike by Chinese workers in a Japanese factory in Mukden. ____ 16. At ____, heroic efforts by the British Royal Navy and civilians in private boats managed to evacuate 338,000 Allied troops. a. Danzig c. Normandy b. the Maginot Line d. Dunkirk ____ 17. The Battle of Stalingrad was a crushing defeat for Germany because a. the German army vastly outnumbered the Swiss army, and yet could not take the city. b. the entire German Sixth Army, considered the best of the German troops, was lost. c. the Soviet army then used the captured tanks and other weapons to push Germany completely out of the Soviet Union. d. it was the first major defeat suffered by the German army, proving they were not invincible. ____ 18. The ____ were special strike forces charged with the task of rounding up and killing Jews. a. Einsatzgruppen c. Gutreisen b. Luftwaffe d. Panzers ____ 19. ____, Hitler’s minister for armaments and munitions, was able to triple the production of armaments despite Allied air raids. a. Carl Reiner c. Albert Speer b. Werner von Braun d. Heinrich Strasser ____ 20. The ____ was the period of political tension following World War II. a. Iron Curtain c. Potsdam Period b. Yalta Era d. Cold War ____ 21. At the Yalta Conference, the Allies agreed to a. allow free elections in Africa. b. the establishment of a United Nations organization after the war. c. a military treaty pledging support to each other against any future attacks. d. resolve all future disagreements peacefully to avoid another such terrible war. 3 Name: ________________________ ID: A ____ 22. The slaughter of European Jews by the Nazis became known as what? a. the Cold War c. the Holocaust b. the Great Atrocity d. the Vast Massacre ____ 23. Which of the following countries was in the area of Soviet influence after World War II? a. Czechoslovakia c. Finland b. Austria d. Greece ____ 24. Which of the following countries was in the area of Western influence after World War II? a. Yugoslavia c. Albania b. Austria d. Poland 4 Name: ________________________ ID: A United States War Involvement Characteristics World War I World War II Military Personnel 4,744,000 16,354,000 Army 4,057,000 11,260,000 Air Force (Part of Army) (Part of Army) Navy 599,000 4,183,000 Marines 79,000 669,000 Coast Guard 9,000 241,000 Killed 116,516 405,399 Wounded 204,002 670,846 Source: Historical Statistics of the United States. ____ 25. In terms of percentages, which of the following branches of the armed forces had the largest increase from World War I to World War II? a. Army c. Marines b. Navy d. Coast Guard ____ 26. In terms of percentages, which of the following branches of the armed forces had the smallest increase from World War I to World War II? a. Army c. Marines b. Navy d. Coast Guard I ask the fifty-two nations not to forget today the policy upon which they embarked eight months ago, and in faith of which I directed the resistance of my people against the aggressor whom they had denounced to the world. Despite the inferiority of my weapons, the complete lack of aircraft, artillery, munitions, hospital services, my confidence in the League was absolute. I thought it to be impossible that fifty-two nations, including the most powerful in the world, should be successfully opposed by a single aggressor. Counting on the faith due to treaties, I had made no preparation for war . Haile Selassie, address to the League of Nations in Geneva, June 30, 1936 ____ 27. Haile Selassie is asking the League of Nations to a. denounce the aggressor. b. give Ethiopia weapons, aircraft, artillery, and munitions. c. provide hospital services. d. honor its treaties and come to the aid of Ethiopia. 5 Name: ________________________ ID: A “[T]he blackest of injustices is being attempted against them [the Italians], that of taking from them their place in the sun. When in 1915 Italy threw in her fate with that of the Allies, how many cries of admiration, how many promises were heard? But after the common victory, which cost Italy six hundred thousand dead, four hundred thousand lost, one million wounded, when peace was being discussed around the table only the crumbs of a rich colonial booty were left for us to pick up. .We have been patient with Ethiopia for forty years. It is enough now.” -Benito Mussolini, speech to the Italian people [on] his invasion of Ethiopia, October 2, 1935 ____ 28. Bassed on the passage, Mussolini invaded Ethiopia out of a. a desire to convert Ethiopians. b. resentment and national ambition. c. a need for more troops to fight in World War I. d. a need for oil Matching Match each item with the correct statement below. a. Midway Island e. Hiroshima b. Einsatzgruppen f. Heinrich Himmler c. Dresden g. London d. New Order h. Manchukuo ____ 29. the name given to the proposed alliance of Japan, Manchuria, and China ____ 30. leader of Hitler’s SS troops ____ 31. The United States defeated Japan in a battle here to turn the tide of World War II in Asia. ____ 32. the new name given to Manchuria by Japan after it was conquered ____ 33. the special Nazi strike forces used to round up Jews ____ 34. This European city was bombed extensively by the German airforce. ____ 35. This German city was firebombed extensively by the British. ____ 36. The first atomic weapon was dropped on this Japanese city. Match each item with the correct statement below. a. Axis Powers f. Einsatzgruppen b. “Mukden incident” g. Luftwaffe c. blitz h. Munich Conference d. Vichy France i. Yalta Conference e. appeasement j. Holocaust ____ 37. policy that sought peace and stability by satisfying the reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers 6 Name: ________________________ ID: A ____ 38. Neville Chamberlain thought the agreement reached there meant “peace for our time.” ____ 39.