- 1. World War II started in Europe when Germany invaded
A) Poland
B) Czechoslovakia
C) France
D) Russia
- 2. What year did World War II begin?
A) 1914
B) 1939
C) 1929
D) 1945
- 3. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) Benito Mussolini
C) Adolf Hitler
D) Joseph Stalin
- 4. Who was the leader of Germany during World War II?
A) Otto von Bismarck
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Benito Mussolini
D) Adolf Hitler
- 5. Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II?
A) Margaret Thatcher
B) Winston Churchill
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) David Lloyd George
- 6. Who was the President of the United States during most of World War II?
A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Harry S. Truman
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) Lebensraum
B) Blitzkrieg
C) Kristallnacht
D) Rattenkrieg
- 8. The name for the German air force during World War II
A) Luftwaffe
B) The Blitz
C) Panzers
D) Kristallnacht
- 9. The President of the United States at the END of World War II who decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Harry S. Truman
D) Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 10. On December 7, 1941 the Japanese unexpectedly attached the American naval fleet at __________________.
A) Charleston Harbor
B) Guantanamo Bay
C) Virginia Beach
D) Pearl Harbor
- 11. Hitler's "Final Solution" referred to the _________________.
A) Holocaust
B) Armenian Genocide
C) Rwandan Genocide
D) Japanese Internment
- 12. The Battle of ____________ represented Hitler's last desperate attempt to win World War II.
A) France
B) Stalingrad
C) Britain
D) The Bulge
- 13. ____________ referred to the Pearl Harbor bombing as "a day that will live in infamy."
A) Harry S. Truman
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Winston Churchill
D) Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 14. The name of the Allied military strategy in the Pacific
A) Trench warfare
B) Blitzkrieg
C) Attrition warfare
D) Island-hopping
- 15. 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 Fortitude
C) Operation Downfall
D) Operation Overlord
- 16. Special nickname given to the date June 6, 1944 when the Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy France to begin their invasion.
A) VJ Day
B) D-Day
C) A-Day
D) VE Day
- 17. A term used for Japanese suicide pilots
A) Tsunamis
B) Geronimos
C) Cyclones
D) Kamikazes
- 18. The name of the political party in Germany lead by Hitler
A) Communist Party
B) Nazi Party
C) Bolshevik Party
D) Weimar Republic
- 19. Special prisons used by the Nazis for political prisoners and Jews
A) Internment Camps
B) Gestapos
C) Concentration Camps
D) Gulags
- 20. During World War II Americans placed people of _____________ descent into special Internment Camps
A) Japanese
B) Russian
C) German
D) Chinese
- 21. Which countries were the three AXIS POWERS during World War II?
A) Japan, Germany, North Korea
B) Japan, Germany, Italy
C) Japan, China, Soviet Union
D) Germany, Italy, Soviet Union
- 22. Which countries were the three main Allied Powers?
A) Great Britain, France, Germany
B) USA, Japan, Soviet Union
C) Soviet Union, Germany, Italy
D) Great Britain, USA, Soviet Union
- 23. When was VE-Day (Victory in Europe)?
A) August 14, 1941
B) May 8, 1945
C) December 7, 1941
- 24. When was VJ-Day (Victory in Japan)?
A) December 7, 1941
B) August 14, 1945
C) August 14, 1939
- 25. Which of the two alliances is considered the victor in World War II?
A) Central Powers
B) Allied Powers
C) Axis Powers
D) The Empire
- 26. What was the largest concentration camp in use during the Holocaust?
A) Sobibor
B) Auschwitz
C) Treblinka
D) Dachau
- 27. The two cities where the United States dropped atomic bombs in Japan
A) Hiroshima and Osaka
B) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
C) Tokyo and Kyoto
D) Yokohama and Osaka
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