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NAME ___________________________________________________________BLOCK _________________
WORLD WAR II – EUROPEAN THEATER TEST
MATCHING
______ 1. Location of Pearl Harbor
a. Ardennes Forest
______ 2. Policy of giving aggressors what they want in order to avoid conflict
b. Josef Stalin
______ 3. Leader of Fascist Italy
c. Blitzkrieg
______ 4. Leader of the USSR
d. Holocaust
______ 5. Symbol of women’s’ effort during WWII
e. Okinawa
______ 6. Invasion of Normandy
f. Dachau
______ 7. “lighting war”
g. Berlin
______ 8. Successor of FDR
h. USS Missouri
______ 9. Attack on Pearl Harbor
i. Benito Mussolini
______ 10. The deliberate and systematic extermination of a group of people
j. Appeasement
______ 11. Deliberate extermination of European Jews, “sacrifice by fire”
k. Oahu Island, Hawaii
______ 12. Location of Hitler’s bunker
l. VE Day
______ 13. First Concentration Camp
m. June 6, 1944
______ 14. Location of the Battle of the Bulge
n. Dec. 7th, 1941
______ 15. May 8, 1945
o. Harry S. Truman
______ 16. Japanese suicide pilots
p. Genocide
______ 17. Development of the atomic bomb
q. Kamikaze
______ 18. Created by the “Big Three” at the Yalta Conference
r. Manhattan Project
______ 19. Location of the formal Japanese surrender
s. Rosie the Riveter
______ 20. Potential “jump off” point for the invasion of Japan
t. United Nations
MULTIPLE CHOICE
______ 1. The first turning point of the war in Europe was the Nazi invasion of _____________________________.
a. Great Britain
b. USSR
c. France
d. Germany
______ 2. Operation Market Garden was the codename for the liberation of ______________________________.
a. Holland
b. Great Britain
c. France
d. USSR
______ 3. ___________________ was the worst death camp during the Holocaust.
a. Dachau
b. Munich
c. Auschwitz
d. Landsburg
______ 4. The Munich Conference was an exercise in
a. totalitarianism
b. neutrality
c. appeasement
d. isolationism
______5. Britain and France declared war on Germany after the invasion of ______________________________.
a. Czechoslovakia
b. Poland
c. Russia
d. Italy
______ 6. The Americans entered into WWII after
a. Germans attacked Poland
b. Germans bombed Great Britain
c. Italians invaded France
d. Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
______ 7. The last major German offensive operation of World War II
a. was the air war over Britain
b. was the battle of Bulge
c. took place in the Soviet Union
d. took place at Normandy in France
______ 8. At the ________________ Conference, FDR, Stalin and Churchill met to discuss post-WWII Germany.
a. Munich
b. Casablanca
c. Paris Peace
d. Yalta
______ 9. The first peacetime draft was created by
a. Roosevelt’s executive order
b. The Selective Service Act
c. Eisenhower’s appeasement order
d. State conscription laws
______ 10. The World War II Axis powers included
a. Austria, Germany, and the Soviet Union
b. Spain, Italy, and Germany
c. Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union
d. Italy, Germany , and Japan
______ 11. The invasion of Normandy was given the codename of Operation _____________________________.
a. Fortitude
b. Torch
c. Market Garden
d. Overlord
______ 12. Who was the leader of the French Revolutionary forces?
a. Charles de Gaulle
b. FDR
c. Joseph Stalin
d. Neville Chamberlain
______ 13. Who was NOT a part of the “Big Three”?
a. FDR
b. Joseph Stalin
c. Neville Chamberlain
d. Winston Churchill
______ 14. What event led to World War II?
a. Battle of the Bulge
b. Battle of Marne
c. Treaty of Versailles
d. Yalta Conference
_______ 15. During World War II, the government set up detention camps for
a. Labor protestors
c. Japanese Americans
b. African Americans
d. German Americans
_______ 16. Who was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe?
a. Dwight D. Eisenhower
b. Douglas MacArthur
c. Robert Patton
d. Erwin Rommel
_______ 17. FDR and Churchill began the initial planning of D-Day at the _______________________ Conference.
a. Munich
b. Casablanca
c. Yalta
d. Potsdam
________ 18. The Evacuation of ___________________________ led to France falling to the Nazi regime.
a. Bastogne
b. Normandy
c. Paris
d. Dunkirk
________ 19. In what country was the WORST Nazi death camp located?
a. Poland
c. Germany
b. Austria
d. France
_______ 20. Which of the following was the codename for the test bomb set off in the NM desert?
a. “fat man”
c. “gadget”
b. “widget”
d. “little boy”
_______ 21. Which of the following was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
a.
b.
“gadget”
“fat man”
c. “little boy”
d. “widget”
_______ 22. During World War II, the government set up detention camps for
a. Labor protestors
b. African Americans
c. Japanese Americans
d. German Americans
_______ 23. Who was the Supreme Allied in the Pacific?
a. Douglas MacArthur
b. Dwight D. Eisenhower
c. Harry Truman
d. Neville Chamberlain
_______ 24. Who was the leader of the Nazi SS?
a. Adolf Hitler
b. Herman Goering
c. Heinrich Himmler
d. Adolf Eichmann
_______ 25. Who was the scientist that was in charge of the project that built the atomic bomb?
a. Roosevelt
c. Truman
b. Oppenheimer
d. MacArthur
FILL IN THE BLANK
1. The two American beaches on D-Day were: ________________________ and ____________________
2. The attack on Pearl Harbor came on what day of the week? ________________________________
3. How many waves of Japanese planes were PLANNED to attack Pearl Harbor? _______________________
4. The _______________________ Acts kept the US out of the war in Europe before the attack of Pearl Harbor.
5. List the three main Allied countries: (HINT: this doesn’t include any country overtaken by the Nazis)
a.__________________________________________________
b.__________________________________________________
c. __________________________________________________
6. Who is considered to the mastermind behind the Pearl Harbor attack? _______________________________
7. How many US airborne divisions jumped on Normandy? _________________________________________
8. The _____________________ Trials was the prosecution of top Nazi officials for “crimes against humanity”.
9. What country liberated the FIRST concentration camp? __________________________________________
10. Hitler’s book Mein Kampf translates into “_____________________________________” and describes
Hitler’s beliefs about the human race.
11. __________________________________ was considered to be one of the best German leaders and
nicknamed the “desert fox” but was implicated in the assassination attempt on Hitler.
12. Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor so early in the morning? __________________________________
13. The President of the United States at the end of World War II, who gave the order for the atomic bombings on
Japan, was _______________________________________.
14. What was the nickname of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki? “______________________________”
15. How many flag raisings were there on Iwo Jima? _______________________
SHORT ANSWER
1. What did the “Big Three” decide about Germany at the Yalta Conference? (2 points)
a. ___________________________________________________________________________
b. Use a drawing to show what was discussed at Yalta. (2 points)
c. Explain how decisions made at the Yalta Conference contributed to the beginning of the Cold War? (2
points) _______________________________________________________________________
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2.
Why did Japan want (or need) to expand throughout the Pacific? (4 points)
a. ___________________________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________________________
BONUS (1 point each)
1. Who was the wife of Adolf Hitler? ______________________________________________________
2. What was the codename of the Canadian beach on D-day? ____________________________________
3. What were the 2 British beaches on D-day?
a. ______________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________
4. What was the code name for the invasion of Africa? _____________________________________________
5. What was the other location discussed at the Casablanca Conference? ________________________________
6. Who was the leader of the German Luftwaffe? _______________________________________________
7. Who was the SS doctor who performed experiments on prisoners of the camp? _______________________
8. What was the puppet government in occupied France known as? ________________________________
9. What ship was hit FIRST in the Pearl Harbor attack? _______________________________________
10. Where does the USS Missouri sit now? ____________________________________________________