- 1. World War II started after Germany invaded ___________________.
A) Poland
B) Russia
C) Czechoslovakia
D) France
- 2. What year did World War II begin?
A) 1929
B) 1945
C) 1939
D) 1914
- 3. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Adolf Hitler
D) Benito Mussolini
- 4. Who was the leader of Germany during World War II?
A) Adolf Hitler
B) Benito Mussolini
C) Otto von Bismarck
D) Joseph Stalin
- 5. Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II?
A) Winston Churchill
B) Margaret Thatcher
C) David Lloyd George
D) Woodrow Wilson
- 6. Who was the President of the United States during most of World War II?
A) Harry S. Truman
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Lyndon B. Johnson
D) Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 7. A method of German warfare meaning "lightning war" that involved air raids and quick take-overs.
A) Kristallnacht
B) Lebensraum
C) Rattenkrieg
D) Blitzkrieg
- 8. The name for the German air force during World War II
A) Luftwaffe
B) Panzers
C) Kristallnacht
D) The Blitz
- 9. The President of the United States at the END of World War II who decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan
A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt
C) Dwight D. Eisenhower
D) Harry S. Truman
- 10. On December 7, 1941 the Japanese unexpectedly attached the American naval fleet at __________________.
A) Pearl Harbor
B) Charleston Harbor
C) Virginia Beach
D) Guantanamo Bay
- 11. Hitler's "Final Solution" referred to the _________________.
A) Holocaust
B) Japanese Internment
C) Rwandan Genocide
D) Armenian Genocide
- 12. The Battle of ____________ represented Hitler's last desperate attempt to win World War II.
A) The Bulge
B) Britain
C) France
D) Stalingrad
- 13. The name of the Allied military strategy in the Pacific
A) Attrition warfare
B) Blitzkrieg
C) Trench warfare
D) Island-hopping
- 14. Codename of the operation planned by General Dwight D. Eisenhower to invade France and take back Western Europe from Germany
A) Operation Sea Lion
B) Operation Downfall
C) Operation Overlord
D) Operation Fortitude
- 15. Special nickname given to the date June 6, 1944 when the Allied troops landed in France to begin their invasion.
A) VE Day
B) D-Day
C) A-Day
D) VJ Day
- 16. A term used for Japanese suicide pilots
A) Geronimos
B) Tsunamis
C) Cyclones
D) Kamikazes
- 17. The name of the political party in Germany lead by Hitler
A) Bolshevik Party
B) Communist Party
C) Weimar Republic
D) Nazi Party
- 18. Special prisons used by the Nazis for political prisoners and Jews
A) Internment Camps
B) Gestapos
C) Gulags
D) Concentration Camps
- 19. During World War II Americans placed people of _____________ descent into special Internment Camps
A) Japanese
B) Chinese
C) German
D) Russian
- 20. Which countries were the three AXIS POWERS during World War II?
A) Japan, Germany, Italy
B) Japan, China, Soviet Union
C) Germany, Italy, Soviet Union
D) Japan, Germany, North Korea
- 21. Which countries were the three main Allied Powers?
A) USA, Japan, Soviet Union
B) Great Britain, France, Germany
C) Soviet Union, Germany, Italy
D) Great Britain, USA, Soviet Union
- 22. When was VE-Day (Victory in Europe)?
- 23. When was VJ-Day (Victory in Japan)?
- 24. Which of the two alliances is considered the victor in World War II?
A) Axis Powers
B) Allied Powers
- 25. What was the largest concentration camp in use during the Holocaust?
A) Treblinka
B) Dachau
C) Auschwitz
D) Sobibor
- 26. The two cities where the United States dropped atomic bombs in Japan
A) Yokohama and Osaka
B) Hiroshima and Osaka
C) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
D) Tokyo and Kyoto
- 27. Who was the dictator of Italy during World War II?
A) Benito Mussolini
B) Adolf Hitler
C) Giuseppe Garibaldi
D) Victor Emmanuel
- 28. The name of the secret project that created the Atomic Bomb in America during WWII
A) Manhattan Project
B) Trinity Project
C) Los Alamos Project
D) Infinity Project
- 29. The conflict that arises after WWII between the US and the Soviet Union is known as____________.
A) Operation Enduring Freedom
B) The Cold War
C) The Persian Gulf War
D) The Watergate Scandal
- 30. Which famous American General from WWII would become President of the United States in 1953?
A) General McAuliffe
B) General Patton
C) General MacArthur
D) General Eisenhower
- 31. Codename of the plan to deceive the Germans into thinking the Allied invasion of Europe was coming at the port of Calais in France
A) Operation Sea Lion
B) Operation Downfall
C) Operation Overlord
D) Operation Fortitude
- 32. The turning point of the war in the Pacific for the United States that allowed them to turn to the offensive was the Battle of _______________.
A) Okinawa
B) Coral Sea
C) Guadalcanal
D) Midway
- 33. In June 1944, Allied forces invaded Europe at _____________ in France to take back Western Europe from Germany.
A) Marseille
B) Calais
C) Normandy
D) Toulouse
- 34. German general in charge of the North Africa army, nicknamed the "Desert Fox."
A) Wilhelm Keitel
B) Friedrich Paulus
C) Gerd von Rundstedt
D) Erwin Rommel
- 35. The turning point of the war in the Soviet Union was the Battle of ________________.
A) El Alamein
B) Midway
C) Stalingrad
D) The Bulge
- 36. The British Air Force is called the ____________.
A) Imperial Air Force (IAF)
B) Royal Air Force (RAF)
C) British Blitz
D) Flying Knights
- 37. The Battle of Britain was fought primarily _____________.
A) At sea
B) In the air
C) On land
D) By civilians
- 38. The Battle of __________ ended Hitler's plans of invading Great Britain.
A) Stalingrad
B) Britain
C) El Alamein
D) France
- 39. City from which the British army was evacuated across the English Channel by British civilians after the fall of France.
A) Dunkirk
B) Paris
C) Calais
D) Normandy
- 40. Germany invaded France by going
A) though the Ardennes Forest in Belgium
B) over the Maginot Line using steal planes
C) through Luxembourg
D) across the English Channel
- 41. Line of defensive fortifications along the border between France and Germany set up at the beginning of WWII.
A) Maginot Line
B) Bastogne Line
C) Paris Line
D) Operation Overlord
- 42. The month that WWII began
A) December
B) July
C) October
D) September
- 43. The date the United States entered WWII
- 44. After the Holocaust, how did the Allies deal with Hitler's men?
A) Nothing, they were glad the war was over
B) They killed all the Nazis
C) They made Germany pay war reparations
D) They put 22 of the top Nazi officials on trial in the Nuremberg Trials
- 45. Which of the following was an effect of the Holocaust?
A) All Aryans were killed
B) Anti-semitism completely ended
C) There are no longer any Jewish people in Europe
D) The country of Israel was created in 1948 for Jewish people
- 46. What was the United State policy of allowing countries to borrow weapons?
A) Commissar Order
B) Lend-Lease Act
C) Executive Order 9066
D) Cash & Carry Act
- 47. Hitler invaded the Soviet Union because ____________________.
A) Payback for the Russians beating Germany in WWI
B) The Soviet Union was capitalist, and Hitler did not like that
C) He wanted the Soviet Union's large supply of gold
D) He wanted the oil and wheat fields
- 48. The Allies were able to convince the Nazis the attack on France was coming at ______________________ even though they really planned to land at Normandy.
A) Vichy
B) Cherbourg
C) Pas de Calais
D) Bordeaux
- 49. The plan to deceive the Nazis about the location of the Allied invasion into France in 1944 was called ________________________.
A) Operation Fortitude
B) Operation Barbarossa
C) Operation Neptune
D) Operation Sea Lion
- 50. Hitler's plan to invade the Soviet Union was code named __________________.
A) Operation Fortitude
B) Operation Overlord
C) Operation Sea Lion
D) Operation Barbarossa
- 51. The Nazi's main goal was to create a "master race" of _____________ people.
A) Slavic
B) Armenian
C) Germanic
D) Anglo-Saxon
E) Aryan
- 52. Besides Jewish people, what other groups of people did Hitler dislike?
A) Homosexuals
B) Gypsies
C) All of the above
D) Russians
E) Poles
- 53. In 1935 the _____________________ laws were passed which discriminated against Jews in Germany.
A) Versailles
B) Nuremberg
C) Munich
D) Semitic
- 54. In what ways were Jews discriminated against in Nazi Germany?
A) All of the above
B) They had to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing
C) They had their citizenship revoked
D) They were banned from marrying Germans
- 55. Kristallnacht literally means...
A) "Sacrifice By Fire"
B) "Night of Broken Glass"
C) "Trail of Tears"
D) "My Struggle"
E) "Living Space"
- 56. After Kristallnacht, Hitler's troops began rounding up the German Jews and deporting them to Poland to live in _________________.
A) Gulags
B) Interment Camps
C) Ghettos
D) Asylums
- 57. After the Holocaust, 22 of Hitlers men were put on trial in the _______________ trials.
A) Nuremberg
B) Berlin
C) Versailles
D) Munich
- 58. ____________ of Hitler's closest men were hanged as a result of the trials
A) 12
B) 22
C) 2
D) 50
- 59. The belief that Jewish people should have their own country is called the __________ movement.
A) Zionist
B) Jesuit
C) Jerusalem
D) Palestinian
- 60. Which nation declared war on Japan August 8, 1945 influencing their decision to surrender?
A) Soviet Union
B) United States
C) Germany
D) Britain
- 61. What happened to Hitler on April 30, 1945?
A) He was shot by American soldiers
B) He committed suicide with his wife
C) He died of a stroke
D) He was captured by the Soviets and put on trial
- 62. Which of the Allied nations was the first to send troops into Berlin to take the city?
A) United States
B) Soviet Union
C) Britain
D) Canada
- 63. British policy of giving in to Hitler's demands to avoid war.
A) Containment
B) Neutrality
C) Provocation
D) Appeasement
- 64. Six months before the war started, in 1939 _____________ and __________ signed a non-aggression pact that shocked the world.
A) Nazi Germany and Poland
B) Soviet Union and Great Britain
C) Nazi Germany and Japan
D) Soviet Union and France
E) Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
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