Download Midterm #1 - Points

World War II Version A
World Studies III
Instructor: M. J. Stauffer, M.Ed.
Version A
Please put all your answers on the answer sheet. Do not write on this test.
Part I. Multiple Choice. Put the letter of the best answer on the answer sheet.
1.
Why did Japan attack China in the 1930s? A) racism, B) need for natural resources,
C) lebensraum, D) show Hitler that Japan was worthy of being included in the master race
2.
Adolph Hitler blamed
, communists and the Jews for all Germany’s troubles during
the 1920s and 30s. A) democracy, B) the Weimar Republic, C) Fascism, D) the Soviet Union
3.
The Manhattan Project was, A) the development of nuclear weapons, B) a cold war operation to
catch Soviet spies, C) a complete failure, D) shared with the Soviet Union
4.
Where was the German advance stopped in North Africa? A) Midway, B) Stalingrad,
C) Berlin, D) El Alamein
5.
Where were the Germans stopped in their invasion of the Soviet Union? A) Midway,
B) Stalingrad, C) Berlin, D) El Alamein
6.
Why did Hitler want to take Stalingrad? A) ports/shipbuilding, B) defense against France and
Great Britain, C) hatred of Stalin/propaganda, D) nuclear power
7.
The Red Army were soldiers of, A) Communist China, B) the United States, C) the Soviet
Union, D) Nazi Germany
8.
Germany experienced
when the Weimar Republic printed money to pay its debts
causing prices to double, sometimes in just a day. A) blitzkrieg, B) inflation, C) hyperinflation,
D) depression
9.
Which Western European nation did Germany invade very early to ensure an opening to the
Atlantic Ocean? A) Norway, B) Poland, C) France, D) Great Britain
10. The meeting between Adolf Hitler, Eduard Deladier, and Neville Chamberlain where the
Sudetenland was given to Germany was called, A) Paris Peace Conference, B) Munich
Conference, C) Berlin Conference, D) Pearl Harbor
11. Where did the Japanese commit atrocities, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and prisoners
of war before 1941? A) Bataan, B) Stalingrad, C) Hawai’i, D) Nanking
12. American soldiers surrendered at
in the Philippine Islands and were forced to march
without food to P.O.W. camps. A) Midway, B) Pearl Harbor, C) Bataan, D) Iwo Jima
13. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party is most commonly known as the, A) commies,
B) Nazis, C) Socialists, D) Bolsheviks
14. Which of the following was a reason that Great Britain and France did nothing to stop Hitler from
taking the Sudetenland? A) they had weaker military forces, B) Germany had nuclear weapons,
C) the memories of World War I, D) the strength of the League of Nations
15. Giving a nation part of what that nation wants to avoid war is called, A) compromise,
B) surrender, C) socialism, D) appeasement
16. What was the “Final Solution”? A) Hitler’s blitzkrieg of Poland, B) the answer to the “Jewish
problem” or extermination, C) the secret of nuclear weapons, D) the gaining of the Sudetenland
17. Where did the British army escape from the continent of Europe across the English Channel?
A) Berlin, B) Stalingrad, C) Paris, D) Dunkirk
18. Which of the following nations did Hitler attack early in 1940? (Following his invasion of
Poland). A) El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, B) Australia and New Zealand,
C) Norway, Luxembourg, Holland, Denmark and Belgium, D) Poland and the Soviet Union
19. The biggest reason Japan attacked the United States was because of, A) Germany’s attack on
Poland, B) the Battle of Britain, C) the steel and oil embargo, D) the Rape of Nanking
20. In 1935 Italy invaded
to gain a colony and to demonstrate their power over weaker
countries, A) Ethiopia, B) the Soviet Union, C) Poland, D) Norway
21. The Atlantic Charter consisted of the nations of, A) Great Britain and the United States,
B) Canada and the United States, C) Germany and Japan, D) the Soviet Union and Japan
22. What was the strategy as decided in the Atlantic Charter? A) defeat Japan first, B) Save Great
Britain from Italy, C) defeat the Soviet Union, D) defeat Germany first
23. The Nuremburg laws were a set of government regulations meant to, A) protect minorities,
B) protect German blood and honor, C) punish Nazi leaders, D) outlaw war
24. The Washington Naval Conference, A) helped to end World War II, B) allowed small nations to
have powerful fleets, C) outlawed battleships and aircraft carriers, D) limited the number of
large ships that Great Britain, the United States, Germany and others could have
25. Which of the following is not considered a cause of World War II? A) Treaty of Versailles,
B) World War I, C) the Cold War, D) fear of Communism
26. Which allied nation had the most casualties during World War II? A) the United States,
B) Great Britain, C) the Soviet Union, D) Italy
27. In North Africa the country of Great Britain was mostly interested in, A) starting a second front
against Germany, B) combating communism, C) protecting Egypt and the Suez Canal,
D) getting the United States involved in World War II
28. Why did Stalin want the Allies to open a second front? A) to keep them too busy to worry about
communism, B) in order to take pressure off the Soviet Union, C) to bring Japan into the war,
D) in order to spread communism
29. Where did the Allies first attack the Axis nations on the continent of Europe? A) Italy, B) the
Soviet Union, C) Germany, D) France
30. During which battle did the German army execute large numbers of American prisoners of war?
A) Battle of Britain, B) Battle of the Bulge, C) Blitzkrieg, D) Dunkirk
31. Why did president Truman authorize the use of atomic bombs on the Japanese mainland? A) to
scare Germany into surrendering, B) to save American and Japanese lives by more quickly
ending the war, C) racism and revenge, D) to test the use of technology
32. Which of the following led the German Afrika Korps against the British and Americans?
A) General Rommel, B) General Montgomery, C) General Patton, D) General Eisenhower
33. Which of the following led the British and American forces in North Africa? A) General
Rommel, B) General Montgomery, C) General Patton, D) General Eisenhower
34. Which of the following was in charge of the D-Day invasion? A) General Rommel, B) General
Montgomery, C) General Patton, D) General Eisenhower
35. Where did the Americans, British and Canadians invade in Europe during the largest beach
landing in history? A) Sicily, B) El Alamein, North Africa, C) Poland, D) Normandy, France
36. The Non-Aggression (Ribbentrop/Molotov) Pact was an agreement between,
not to
attack one another. A) Hitler and Stalin, B) Truman and Roosevelt, C) Stalin and Churchill,
D) Churchill and Chamberlain
37. The secret agreement within the Non-Aggression Pact was, A) the division of Poland,
B) having Mexico invade the United States, C) the invasion of Norway, D) the nuclear attacks
on Japan
38. Who sent a letter to President Roosevelt warning him of a Nazi attempt to acquire atomic
weapons? A) President Truman, B) General Montgomery, C) Albert Einstein, D) Lise
Meitner
39. In what Chinese city were 300,000 civilians and soldiers slaughtered by the Japanese?
A) Beijing, B) Nanking, C) Hiroshima, D) Nagasaki
40. What defense were the Nazis not allowed to use at the Nuremburg trials? A) “for the Fatherland”,
B) “just following orders”, C) lebensraum, D) Germans were the master race
41. During
Germany tested new weapons and tactics. A) the Crimean War, B) the
Spanish Civil War, C) World War I, D) the Vietnam War
42. The largest sea-borne invasion in history took place in, A) Germany, B) the Soviet Union,
C) France, D) Okinawa
43. Which of the following theories would Adolf Hitler most likely espouse? A) communism,
B) democracy, C) Social Darwinism, D) Catholicism
44. The biggest cause of World War II was, A) World War I or the Treaty of Versailles, B) the
Cold War, C) Great Britain and Germany, D) communism
45. El Alamein was, A) the place in the Soviet Union where the German army was stopped, B) the
place in North Africa where the German army was stopped, C) the leader of Japan,
D) Mussolini’s nickname
46. Propaganda is, A) socialism, B) information that is twisted to promote one side over the other,
C) one of the causes of World War II, D) one of Wilson’s 14 Points
47. Germany, Italy, and Japan were all part of the, A) Allies, B) Central Powers, C) Axis,
D) Triple Entente
48. Great Britain and France gave Hitler
in order to have peace in Europe.
A) Dunkirk, B) the Sudetenland, C) Manchuria, D) Stalingrad
49. Because the embargo of oil and steel the United States started, Japan, A) attacked Nanking,
B) attacked Stalingrad, C) attacked Pearl Harbor, D) surrendered
50. The holocaust refers to, A) the Nazi use of crematoriums (or crematoria), B) killing of innocent
civilians, C) the gas chambers, D) killing of prisoners of war
51. Through appeasement at the Munich Conference, the British and French hoped to, A) encourage
an attack on the Soviet Union, B) secure peace by giving Hitler part of what he wanted,
C) restore prosperity, D) buy time while they rearmed.
52. The German invasion of Poland triggered the, A) end of the League of Nations, B) Battle of
Britain, C) start of World War II, D) nonaggression pact.
53. What was the immediate reason for the United States' entry into World War II? A) Germany's
declaration of war, B) Soviet invasion of Poland, C) sinking of American "neutrality patrols"
D) Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
54. Which battle was the turning point in the Pacific against Japan? A) Midway, B) Bataan,
C) Coral Sea, D) Pearl Harbor
55. The two Japanese cities destroyed by atomic bombs were A) Tokyo and Kyoto, B) Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, C) Nagasaki and Kobe, D) Hiroshima and Tokyo
Bonus Questions. Put your answers on the appropriate place on the answer sheet.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
What was General Irwin Rommel of the Afrika Korps’ nickname?
What Japanese-held volcanic island was the model for the Marine Corps memorial in Washington
D.C.? (Hint: it appears somewhere in this test)
What city’s airport was named after naval aviator Edward “Butch” O’Hare?
What British monarch authorized the new Canadian flag in 1965?
What mass murderer did Stalin make an agreement with in 1950?
Zarathustra was what kind of man?
What was the largest invasion of all time?
What is the three letter identifier for Chicago’s O’Hare airport?
Which nation raided the French coastal town of Dieppe as a dress rehearsal for Normandy?
What was Operation Barbarossa?
When Sir Winston Churchill said “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so
many to so few,” to whom was he referring?
Manchukuo was the Japanese name for the northern part of what country?
Who wrote Mein Kampf?
What was the exact date of D-Day?
What American won 5 gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in 1936?
What Axis leader had the nickname “Il Duce”?