Download Grade 9 Social Studies UNIT 4 TEST

Grade 9 Social Studies
UNIT 4 TEST:
World War II
1. Which row in the table accurately
shows the alliances in World War II?
ALLIED POWERS
A) Britain, USSR, United States
AXIS POWERS
Germany, Italy, Japan
B)
Germany, Italy, Japan
Britain, France, United States
C)
USSR, Japan, China
France, Britain, Canada
D)
Canada, USA, Italy
Germany, USSR, Japan
2. What was the Treaty of Versailles?
A) A peace settlement that ended World War I that
punished Germany for starting the war.
B) A pact between USSR and Germany that promised
that neither would intervene in each others’ affairs.
C) A plan made among the allies to design an atomic
bomb to drop on Japan.
D) An agreement made among the allies to allow Hitler
to reclaim all of the land that was taken from Germany
after World War I
3. What term is being described in the
definition and image below?
A) Rearmament
B) Appeasement
C) Enforcement
D) Conscientious
Objection
Satisfying someone’s
demands in hope that
general peace will prevail.
4. What country did Hitler invade on September 1,
1939 to officially start World War II?
A) France
B) Poland
C) Czechoslovakia
D) Britain
5. The early part of the war in which little
fighting happened and when Canada recruited
and trained soldiers is known as:
A) Stalingrad
B) D-Day
C) The Phony War
D) Dieppe
6. On December 7, 1941, the United States
officially entered the war after Japan
bombed their naval and air base in:
A) San Jose,
California
B) Detroit,
Michigan
C) Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii
D) Iwo Jima
7. Which statement about Canadian
involvement in World War II is true?
A) Canada’s air force was heavily involved in bombing
missions over Germany
B) Canada was unsuccessful in the Dieppe raid and
the defense of Hong Kong
C) Canada was apart of the successful Italian
Campaign and D-Day missions
D) All of the Above
8. The systematic state-sponsored
extermination of Jews and other minority
groups by the Nazis is known as:
A) Ethnic Cleansing
B) Auschwitz
C) Kamikaze
D) The Holocaust
9. What was Canada’s contribution to
“The Manhattan Project”?
A) Canadian uranium and scientists were used to
construct and develop the bomb.
B) Test explosions were carried out in Canada
C) Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
made the final decision to use the bomb.
D) The Canadian Air Force carried out the bombing
mission over Japan
10. Watch the following video to
answer the question below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN_UJJ9ObDs
Why did US President Harry S. Truman consider
the atomic bomb to be important?
A) It would save millions of lives in the long run.
B) It showed the technological, scientific and economic power of
the United States.
C) It showed the inferiority of non-Christians.
D) It was the only one that was produced and it had to be tested.
11. Which statement about the Canadian
economy during World War II is true?
A) The economy crashed because the labour force was so
small
B) The Great Depression continued until 1945.
C) The Great Depression ended once factories and farms
were forced to produce wartime goods.
D) Canada could not compete with European nations
because our industry was not as advanced as theirs.
12. Which statement about Canadian
women during World War II is false?
A) Women filled workplace voids left behind after so
many men enlisted to serve in the military
B) Many women worked in factories producing
wartime necessities.
C) Many women worked on farms.
D) Women did not serve in military roles.
13. TRUE or FALSE:
Once Britain declared war on Germany,
Canada was automatically dragged in
because they were a British colony.
14. TRUE or FALSE:
France resisted the German attack
until the end of the War
15. TRUE or FALSE:
The Soviet Union played a major role in
helping the allies defeat the Nazis
16. TRUE or FALSE:
World War II created stronger
relations between the United States
and Canada.
17. Complete the table below on
APPEASEMENT:
Give three reasons
that the Allied Powers
appeased Hitler’s
aggression in the
1930s:
1.
2.
3.
Did the policy of
appeasement work?
Why?
18. Complete the table below about
rationing.
Define the term
RATIONING
List three items that
were rationed during
World War II
1.
2.
3.
Do you agree with
rationing? Explain.
19. Complete the table below on the mistreatment
of certain groups of people in Canada during
World War II:
GROUP
EXAMPLES OF MISTREATMENT