Name: __________________________________ World War II Tests

Date: ________________

Directions: Multiple Choice. Select the letter choice which correctly answers the question.
1) Before September 1939, the European response to Hitlers actions included A) B) C) D) Following a policy of appeasement Forcing Germany to sign the Versailles Treaty Blockading the coast of Germany Creating alliances under the United Nations Charter

2) Which newspaper headline illustrates a policy of appeasement?

A) Dien Bien Phu Falls; French to Leave Vietnam B) Chamberlain Agrees to German Demands: Sudetenland to Germany C) Marshall Plan Proposes Economic Aid Program for Europe D) Soviet Troops and Tanks Crush Hungarian Revolt 3) Japans invasion of Manchuria, Italys attack on Ethiopia, and Germanys blitzkrieg in Poland are
examples of A) Military aggression B) Appeasement C) Containment D) The domino theory

4) Fascist leaders in Italy and Germany came to power in the 1920s and 1930s because they

A) Supported the League of Nations B) Exploited economic hardships to gain popular support C) Resisted all forms of extreme nationalism D) Maintained political traditions

5) One reason for the outbreak of World War II was the

A) B) C) D) Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations Growing tension between the United States and the Soviet Union Conflict between the Great Britain and Austria Refusal of the German government to sign the Treaty of Versailles

6) One similarity between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini is that both A) Led fascist states B) Rejected militarism C) Supported communism D) Remained in power after World War II

7) Which type of political system did Vladimir Lenin, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini establish in their countries? A) Constitutional monarchy B) Representative democracy C) Totalitarianism D) Theocracy
8) Base your answer to question 36 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
It took the Big Four just five hours and twenty-five minutes here in Munich today to dispel the clouds of war and come to an agreement over the partition of Czechoslovakia. There is to be no European war, after all. There is to be peace, and the price of that peace is, roughly, the ceding by Czechoslovakia of the Sudeten territory to Herr Hitlers Germany. The German Fhrer gets what he wanted, only he has to wait a little longer for it. Not much longer though only ten days. . . . - Source: William Shirer, recording of CBS
radio report from Prague, September 29, 1938

The policy that France and Britain chose to follow at this meeting is known as A) Appeasement B) Self-determination C) Liberation D) Pacification 9) The Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931and Hitlers rebuilding of the German military in 1935 demonstrate the A) Success of defensive alliances B) Support for the Treaty of Versailles C) Fear of communist expansion D) Failure of the League of Nations

10) The main reason Japan invaded Southeast Asia during World War II was to A) Acquire supplies of oil and rubber B) Satisfy the Japanese peoples need for spices C) Prevent the United States from entering the war D) Recruit more men for its army

11) Which event is most closely associated with the start of World War II in Europe? A) Invasion of Poland by Nazi forces B) Building of the Berlin Wall C) Signing of the Munich Agreement D) Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

12) During World War II, which geographic features contributed most to the Soviet Unions defense against the German invasion? A) Deposits of many natural resources B) Atlantic ports and rivers C) Size and climate D) Mountainous territory and desert areas
13) Which action taken by both Hitler and Napoleon is considered by historians to be a strategic military error? A) Invading Russia with limited supply lines B) Invading Great Britain by land C) Introducing combined ground and naval assaults D) Using conquered peoples as slave laborers

14) During World War II, the Allied invasion of France on D-Day (June 6, 1944) was significant because it A) Demonstrated the power of the atomic bomb B) Resulted in a successful German revolt against Hitler and the Nazi Party C) Led to the immediate surrender of German and Italian forces D) Forced Germans to fight a two-front war

15) . . . Seventy thousand people were killed instantly, and many more would die 60,000 by November and another 70,000 by 1950. Most of them would be victims of a new method of killing- radiation ( Ronald Takai) The situation described in this passage was the direct result of which World War II event? A) Blitz of London B) D-Day invasion of Normandy C) Attack on Pearl Harbor D) Bombing of Hiroshima

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A. Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. B. Allies invade Europe on D-Day. C. Germany invades Poland. D. Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

16) Which sequence shows the correct chronological order of these World War II events, from earliest to latest? A) AB C D B) C D B A C) B A D C D) D C A B

17) The Holocaust is an example of A) Conflict between political parties B) Limited technological development C) Violations of human rights D) Geographys influence on culture

18) Which action illustrates the concept of genocide?

A) The British negotiating peace with Adolf Hitler during the 1938 Munich Conference B) Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin signing a nonaggression pact in 1939 C) The Nazi armies eliminating the Jews and other groups as part of Adolf Hitlers Final Solution D) German generals plotting against Adolf Hitler

19) Which group was accused of violating human rights in the city of Nanjing during World War II? A) B) C) D) Americans Chinese Japanese Germans

20) Which leader is most closely associated with the rise of fascism in Italy prior to World War II? A) B) C) D) Ho Chi Minh Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini