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NAME____________________________ PERIOD________________ DATE______________ WORLD WAR II EXAM A. Multiple Choice: _______1. Who was the President who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki 3 days later, despite a petition signed by 68 scientists working on atomic bomb development that asked him not to use the bomb to kill innocent civilians? a. Franklin Delano Roosevelt b. Dwight Eisenhower c. Harry Truman d. John F. Kennedy _______ 2. Who was the Communist dictator of Russia who ordered the deaths of millions of Russians during the Great Terror in the 1930s and made a mutual agreement with Hitler in 1938 and then fought on the side of the Allies after Hitler invaded Russia? a. Karl Marx b. Vladimir Lenin c. Benito Mussolini d. Josef Stalin _______ 3. Who was the only President elected to four terms in office? a. Franklin Delano Roosevelt b. Dwight Eisenhower c. Harry Truman d. Winston Churchill _______4. Who was the U.S. General with the nickname “Blood and Guts” that felt he was a coward as a child because he ran away from a fight, led the US forces in the invasion of Italy, and was used as a decoy to trick the Germans before the D-Day invasion? a. Dwight Eisenhower b. George Patton c. Bernard Montgomery d. Erwin Rommel _______ 5. Who became the Fascist dictator of Italy in 1925 and was executed by his own people in 1945? a. Benito Mussolini b. Josef Stalin c. Joseph Goebbels d. Enrico Fermi _______ 6. Who was the Prime Minister of England who rallied his country to resist surrender during Germany’s nightly bombing of London with speeches such as “The only thing to fear is fear itself.”? a. Wernher Von Braun b. Bernard Montgomery c. Winston Churchill d. George S. Patton _______ 7. Which event led to the America’s decision to enter W.W.II? a. the battle of Stalingrad b. the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor c. the Germans’ conquest of France d. the D-Day invasion _______ 8. Which of the following contributed to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party in the aftermath of World War I? a. Germany ‘manufactured’ extra money to pay the costs of World War I and this made their money worthless b. Germany could not have a standing army so people like Hitler were free to raise their own private armies c. a & b d. none of these _______9. Which of the following countries formed the Axis Powers of W.W.II? a. Italy, France, and Germany b. the United States, Britain, and Russia c. Germany, Italy, and Japan d. Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands ______ 10. What was the purpose of D-Day? a. the invasion by the Allies to win France back from Germany b. the invasion of Western Russia by Germany to conquer Asia with Japan c. the nightly bombing of London by Germany to force Britain to surrender d. the sneak attack on the US by Japan to destroy our Pacific Fleet ______ 11. In which country did Anti-Semitism become a state policy which led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews in concentration camps? a. Germany b. Japan c. Italy d. France ______ 12. Which was true of America’s Japanese Internment policy? a. each person could take only what they could carry to the camps b. the camps were located mostly in deserts or swamps c. the Japanese had to sell homes, cars and businesses for very, very little money d. all of these ______ 13. Which of the following was NOT true of the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps? a. adults who appeared over 50 and young children who couldn’t work were immediately murdered b. only Jewish people were sent to concentration camps c. hair from the dead bodies was used as raw material to make socks and stuff mattresses d. some prisoners were deliberately killed in medical experiments to see how much cold, heat, high pressure and low pressure the human body could endure ______14. Which of the following is true about Eleanor Roosevelt? a. she campaigned for women’s right and black’s rights b. before she was married her last name was Roosevelt c. when young, she grew to believe she was not very attractive d. all of these ______ 15. Which was true of the American war efforts at home? a. sugar was rationed because it was used in making torpedo fuel and dynamite b. Rosy the Riveter was the name of a war poster image, based on a real person, that was used to inspire American women to work in factories c. America’s war effort was much greater than that of Nazi Germany’s d. all of the above B. TRUE and FALSE: Write out the words “True” or “False” for your answer. ______ 17. The D-Day invasion by floating carriers took about six hours and the battle of Stalingrad took about six months. ______ 18. The atomic bombs made by the US in the top-secret Manhattan Project were fission bombs whose tremendous destructive power came from the splitting of either uranium or plutonium atoms. ______ 19. Japan surrendered about four months before Germany did. ______ 20. The Gestapo was the name of the Nazis’ secret police. ______ 21. Hitler basically took power in Germany getting so many votes that he was given the head position of Chancellor by the man in power who was named Hindenberg. ______22 Hanukkah is the name for the Jewish Festival of Lights. ______23. The Nazis were the first group to ever practice Anti-Semitism, or hatred of Jewish people. ______24. Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the country of the Netherlands. ______ 25. The ‘Big Three’ leaders who met at the Yalta Conference were Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin.