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World War II Study Guide
Name ________________________
****Make sure that you know your 70 Vocab Terms****
_____ 1. What was the name of the Nazi party before Hitler renamed it?
a. German Workers Party
c. German Nationalist Party
b. German Socialist Party
d. German Union Party
_____ 2. The primary death camp for Jews was
a. Sarajevo
c. Auschwitz
b. Stalingrad
d. Bergen
_____ 3. Which country did not occupy Germany after the war?
a. Italy
c. France
b. Soviet Union
d. Great Britain
_____ 4. The US dropped the first A-Bomb on
a. Nagasaki
c. Vesuvius
b. Tokyo
d. Hiroshima
_____ 5. Pearl Harbor was attacked on
a. Dec 7, 1940
c. Dec 7, 1944
b. Dec 7, 1941
d. Dec. 7, 1945
_____ 6. D-Day happened on
a. June 6, 1944
c. June 6, 1943
b. June 6, 1945
c. June 6, 1942
_____ 7. Who signed the Non-Aggression Pact?
a. Hitler and Mussolini c. Stalin and Hitler
b. Mussolini and Stalin d. Truman and Hitler
_____ 8. What was the starting date of WW II?
a. Sept 1st, 1939
c. June 6th, 1944
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b. Dec 7 , 1941
d. Nov. 7th, 1938
_____ 9. What was the US strategy in the Pacific?
a. trench warfare
c. guerilla warfare
b. island hopping
d. bomb everyone
_____ 10. Which country used “lightning warfare”?
a. Russia
c. Germany
b. France
d. Poland
_____ 11. Which President decided to drop the A-bomb?
a. FDR
c. Washington
b. Truman
d. JFK
_____ 12. In the Munich Agreement, Hitler and Chamberlain agreed that Hilter would have the
Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia provided that Hilter
a. promised to pay back all of his debt
b. promised not to invade anywhere else
c. promised to allow France to pass through on their way to Russia
d. promised to go to war
_____13. Hitler believed that Aryans were
a. decedents of Romans c. decedents of Grecians
b. decedent of the Gods d. decedents of Mayans
_____ 14. What is the term that says give in to a leader’s demands in order to prevent an
all out war?
a. Disarmament
c. Reparations
b. Inflation
d. Appeasement
_____ 15. Who was in alliance with the Rome-Berlin Axis?
a. Hitler and Stalin
c. Hitler and Hirohito
b. Hitler and Mussolini
d. Hitler and Roosevelt
_____ 16. Who was in alliance with the Anti-Comintern Pact against communism?
a. Hitler and Stalin
c. Hitler and Hirohito
b. Hitler and Mussolini
d. Hitler and Roosevelt
_____ 17. What was the name of the union Germany made with Austria?
a. Anschluss
c. Rhineland
b. Anti-Comintern
d. Austrianism
_____ 18. What was the series of concrete and steel fortifications armed with heavy artillery along the
France and Germany boarders?
a. Sudentenland
c. Maginot Line
b. Munich
d. Dunkirk
_____ 19. Which battle stopped German troops from advancing in Russia?
a. Stalingrand
c. Stalingrad
b. Munich
d. Dunkirk
_____ 20. What battle was the turning point in Asia where a smaller American force defeated the
Japanese navy?
a. Sudentenland
c. Maginot
b. Munich
d. Midway
_____ 21. What was the name of Hitler’s book he wrote in prison?
a. Mein Kapm
c. Mein Kampt
b. Mein Kampf
d. Mein Kraft
_____ 22. Who were the elite guard that became the private army of the Nazi Party?
a. Gestapo
c. Troopers
b. Police
d. SS
_____23. Who were the state police who identified those people who did not follow the laws of the Nazi
regime?
a. Gestapo
c. Troopers
b. Police
d. SS
_____ 24. Which ship sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor in under nine minutes?
a. USS Arizona
c. USS Mississippi
b. USS Missouri
d. USS Amazon
_____ 25. What date did the US declare war on Japan?
a. Dec 8, 1940
c. Dec 8, 1944
b. Dec 8, 1941
d. Dec. 8, 1945
_____ 26. Where did Nazi Germany think America was going to attack on D-Day?
a. Calabash
c. Calias
b. Cameron
d. Caliam
_____ 27. Where did we have a “dress rehearsal” for DDay?
a. Dieppe
c. Rhineland
b. Calias
d. Sudetenland
_____ 28. What was the name of the British secret service agent who managed to infiltrate a double agent
in the German intelligence?
a. Garbo
c. Maquis
b. Munich
d. Dunkirk
_____ 29. What was the name of the wall built to secure the coastline of France?
a. Channel
c. Dunkirk
b. Pacific
d. Atlantic
_____ 30. What was the name of the project to build an atomic bomb?
a. Mangran
c. Maginot
b. Manhattan
d. Midway
_____ 31. Who was the head physicist on the project to build the A-Bomb?
a. Oppenheimer
c. Einstein
b. Groves
d. Roosevelt
_____ 32. What was the test bomb’s name?
a. Fat Man
c. Gadget
b. Little Boy
d. Big Man
_____33. What was the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
a. Fat Man
c. Gadget
b. Little Boy
d. Big Man
_____ 34. What was the name of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki?
a. Fat Man
c. Gadget
b. Little Boy
d. Big Man
_____ 35. What date did Japan surrender?
a. August 7, 1945
c. August 14, 1945
b. August 12, 1945
d. August 18, 1945