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Chapter 14 Quiz A
1. __________How did Mussolini use gangs of Fascist thugs in
Italy?
a. To guard Allied Prisoners
b. To invade Ethiopia
c. To draw up new laws
d. To terrorize his opponents
2. __________For most of World War II, Japanese American and
African American troops
a. Fought on the eastern front.
b. Fought in segregated units.
c. Stayed in the U.S.
d. Tried to keep out of the war.
3. __________Just hours after they bombed Pearl Harbor, the
Japanese attacked
a. The Bataan Peninsula
b. Clark Field, an American air base.
c. The north coast of Australia.
d. The Mariana Islands, a British stronghold.
4. __________What was one of the main goals of the Nazis in the
1930’s
a. Establish the Gestapo
b. Make all Germans carry identity cards
c. Get rid of the Jews
d. Host the Evian Conference.
5. __________What action did the Nazis take to strip Jews of their
German citizenship?
a. Forced all Jews to emigrate
b. Opened the Warsaw ghetto
c. Passed the Nuremberg laws
d. Opened concentration camps
6. __________Which of Hitler’s aggressive actions triggered
World War II?
a. Invasion of Poland
b. Annexation of Austria
c. Invasion of the Rhineland
d. Demand for the Sudetenland.
7. __________Which of the following reasons drove Japan to
seek an empire?
a. Fear of German aggression
b. Lack of raw materials
c. Conflict over fishing rights
d. Anger at the Versailles Treaty
8. __________Two months after securing North Africa, the Allies
invaded
a. Italy
b. Germany
c. The Soviet Union
d. Great Britain
9. __________The Allies sunk all four Japanese carriers and 250
planes at
a. The Battle of Guadalcanal.
b. The Bataan Peninsula.
c. The Battle of Midway.
d. The Solomon Islands.
10.
__________Through their island-hopping strategy, the
Allies put themselves in a position to
a. Bomb Japan.
b. Win the Battle of the Coral Sea.
c. Retake Peal Harbor.
d. Defend China.
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Chapter 14 Quiz B
1. __________Which country had gained control of most of
Western Europe by 1940?
a. Italy
b. Japan
c. Germany
d. Russia
2. __________American officials refused to use women in
a. The Coast Guard.
b. Naval aviation.
c. Combat.
d. Support roles.
3. __________When the Japanese advanced against his troops
General MacArthur was forced to
a. Leave the Philippines.
b. Launch a bombing attack on Japan.
c. Surrender his ship.
d. Attack Corregidor.
4. __________What was the “final solution to the Jewish
question,” announced by the Nazis at the Wannsee
Conference?
a. Kill all the Jews
b. Compromise with Jewish leaders
c. Force all Jews to emigrate
d. Draft all Jews into the German army
5. __________In April 1943, how did Jews in Warsaw react
against deportation to Treblinka?
a. A six-month strike
b. Hundreds of letters to Hitler
c. A month-long revolt
d. Several debates against Nazi officials
6. __________Why were many Americans reluctant to enter the
war?
a. They favored a weakened Europe.
b. They did not trust Roosevelt as a leader.
c. They sympathized with the goals of the Axis powers.
d. They though isolationism was in America’s best interest.
7. __________What event made Americans willing to enter the
war?
a. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
b. Publication of Mein Kampf
c. British declaration of war on Germany.
d. German attack on Czechoslavakia.
8. __________On D-Day the Allies launched a mammoth
invasion across
a. The Mediterranean Sea.
b. The English Channel.
c. The Pacific Ocean.
d. The Elbe River.
9. __________At the Battle of the Bulge, Germans fought
desperately to
a. Conquer Britain.
b. Keep the Soviet army out of Berlin.
c. Save their homeland.
d. Push the Allies out of Italy.
10.__________The goal of the Manhattan Project was to
a. Develop an atomic bomb.
b. Devise a strategy for invading Japan.
c. Buid eight new aircraft carriers.
d. Defend New York City from submarine attacks.