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World Studies 2011
World War II (120 points)
I. Multiple Choice
Directions: Choose the best answer and mark it on your scantron. (2 points each)
1. All of the following statements describe Joseph Stalin EXCEPT:
a) totalitarian
b) entered into a pact with Germany in 1942
c) communist
d) responsible for the death of many individuals
2. What is genocide as practiced by the Nazis?
a) the killing of people for the sole purpose of creating terror
b) the broadcasting of anti-semitic beliefs
c) the abuse of a nation’s citizens by their own government
d) the deliberate extermination of a specific group of people
3. The Atomic bomb was dropped on these two cities.
a) Hiroshima and Tokyo
b) Tokyo and Nagasaki
c) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
d) Tokyo and Pearl Harbor
4. Which of the following happened first?
a) The Bataan Death March
b) The Battle of Midway
c) DDay invasion
d) The bombing of Pearl Harbor
5. On D-Day, the Allies…
a) dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
b) landed on the coast of France.
c) invaded Italy.
d) caused Hitler to surrender.
6. Which of the following did Winston Churchill oppose?
a) the appeasement of Hitler
b) the Treaty of Versailles
c) the Lend-Lease Act
d) the Atlantic Charter
7. Which of the following correctly matches the leader with his nation?
a) Austria- Joseph Stalin
b) Japan- PM Tojo
c) Britain- Charles de Gaulle
d) France- Neville Chamberlain
8. In following a policy of appeasement in Munich, what did Britain and France do?
a) declared war on Germany
b) submitted to Hitler’s demands
c) entered into a formal defense alliance
d) pressured the United States to enter the war
9. The actions of which country finally forced the United States to enter the war?
a) Italy
b) Germany
c) Japan
d) the Soviet Union
10. At the end of World War I, many new democracies were established in Europe. In the
years between the two world wars, what happened to most of these democracies?
a) They thrived.
b) They became communist.
c) They were torn apart by civil wars.
d) They were replaced by dictatorships.
11. What happened during the Battle of Britain?
a) German troops invaded Britain from the French coast at Normandy.
b) Germany bombed Britain for two months.
c) Britain defeated the German navy.
d) Hitler defeated the British navy.
12. On which of the following did Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini disagree?
a) nationalism
b) ownership of property
c) centralized government
d) militaristic expansionism
13. Which of the following statements most accurately reflects Roosevelt’s feelings toward
joining the war?
a) He did not understand the isolationists and was very eager to join the war.
b) He wanted to avoid war because he did not see it as a threat to the U.S.
c) He agreed with the isolationists who promoted an isolationist policy.
d) He wanted to help the Allies but had to appease U.S. citizens who opposed
entering the war.
14. Which of the following allowed the United States to establish air bases to effectively
bomb Japan
a) Midway
b)Coral Sea
c) Iwo Jima
d) Guadacanal
15. The overall strategy of American forces in the Pacific Theater of war involved
a) slowly taking island by island and acquiring landing strips and refueling stations.
b) continuous bombing of civilian targets.
c) blitzkrieg land battles.
d) a direct amphibious invasion of Japan.
16. The Battle of the Bulge was significant because it marked the _________.
a) liberation of the death camps
b) last German offensive
c) the Allies’ first victory in Europe
d) the Axis powers’ first lost in a land battle
17. Which of the following events is NOT paired with the correct year?
a) V-J Day- 1945
b) V-E Day- 1945
c) D-Day- 1944
d) The Battle of Midway- 1945
18.
The cartoon above, published in September 1942, demonstrates the idea that…
a) Hitler depended on the cold weather to conquer Russian troops.
b) Axis forces invaded Russia only during the winter.
c) The Allied victory at Stalingrad was helped by the Russian winter.
d) The Axis powers had supplies better suited to fighting in the cold.
19. Truman’s aim in dropping the atomic bomb was to…
a) find out how destructive the bomb really was
b) teach Japanese military leaders a lesson
c) end the war and save American lives
d) show how powerful the United States was
20. Which of the following events occurred FIRST?
a) the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima
b) the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki
c) V-E Day
d) V-J Day
21. Victory at the Battle of Iwo Jima was important for the Americans because
a) it helped American soldiers have more confidence at the Battle of Midway.
b) it secured an airfield from which the Americans could bomb mainland Japan.
c) it cleared out civilians before the Americans dropped the atomic bomb
d) it made fighting at Okinawa unnecessary.
22. “Operation Torch” refers to…
a) the Allied invasion of North Africa
b) the Allied invasion of France
c) Hitler’s operation to take over many countries after the “sitzkrieg”
d) The Japanese invasion of Manchuria
23. In order to invade France, German troops…
a) entered through Belgium
b) conquered Spain first and then entered from the South
c) constructed a naval blockade so that no supplies could arrive from the U.S.
d) bombed Paris primarily by plane.
24. “Our men simply could not get past the beach. They were pinned down right on the
water’s edge by an inhuman wall of fire from the bluff. Our first waves were on that beach
for hours, instead of a few minutes, before they could begin working inland…”
- from a war dispatch by reporter Ernie Pyle at Omaha Beach
This describes what World War II battle?
a) The Battle for Okinawa
b) D-Day
c) Operation Torch
d) The Battle of the Bulge
25. Roosevelt’s decision to remove people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps was a
response to…
a) strong anti-Japanese sentiment on the Pacific Coast
b) verified reports of Japanese Americans acting as spies
c) the lack of Japanese Americans serving in the armed forces
d) rumors that the Japanese were developing an atomic bomb
26. Japanese leaders told the people of other Asian nations all of the following EXCEPT:
a) They wanted to increase economic prosperity for the region
b) Britain and the United States were evil.
c) An Asian empire could challenge the power of any European country.
d) Other Asian nations should engage in the practice of imperialism, and attempt to
conquer European nations.
27 The Manhattan project was…
a) the training of Navajo code talkers
b) the plan to crash suicide planes into Allied ships
c) the American plan to supply Britain with supplies that departed from New York
harbor
d) the plan to develop the atomic bomb
28. “I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday,
December seventh, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.”
Which of the following men said these words?
a) Harry S. Truman
b) Winston Churchill
c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
d) Dwight D. Eisenhower
29. The Battle of Britain forced Germany to
a) join the Axis powers
b) fight a three front war
c) put off the invasion of Britain
d) enter into a nonaggression pact with Britain
Look at the following cartoon and then answer questions 30 and 31.
30. This cartoon speaks about atrocities committed by what group of people?
a) The Chinese
b) The Germans
c) The Japanese
d) The Filipinos
31. American soldiers stationed in what location were the victims of the torture and
starvation mentioned in the cartoon above?
a) Pearl Harbor
b) North Africa
c) Iwo Jima
d) The Philippines