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World War II – Pre-Course Assessment

Choose the letter that best completes the question or statement.

1. What year did World War II begin?
a) 1931
b) 1935
c) 1937
d) 1941
2. What was Germany's tactics in Poland called?
a) Greller blitz
b) guerrilla warfare
c) kamikaze
d) blitzkrieg
3. How did the United States initially feel about the war in Europe?
a) Neutrality
b) Lend-lease to any country willing to fight
c) Fight with the countries who joined NATO
d) Free the Jews from concentration camps
4. How was the United States brought into WWII with Germany?
a) The Germans attacked Pearl Harbor
b) The Germans sent the Zimmerman Note to the Mexicans
c) The United States declared war on Germany first
d) The Germans declared war on the United States
5. Where did Erwin Rommel conduct war for Germany?
a) Poland
b) Soviet Union
c) Japan
d) Africa
6. When was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
a) December 25, 1939
b) December 7, 1941
c) June 6, 1944
d) June 26, 1944
7. D-Day is the code name for Operation Overlord, which is the Allied invasion of which country?
a) Great Britain
b) France
c) Germany
d) Italy
8. When was D-Day?
a) December 7, 1941
b) December 7, 1944
c) June 6, 1941
d) June 6, 1944
9. Which man was not a member of the Big 3?
a) Stalin
b) Churchill
c) Roosevelt
d) Hitler
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10. Where did Nazi leaders decide the “final solution to the Jewish question”?
a) Potsdam Conference
b) Tehran Conference
c) Wannsee Conference
d) Yalta Conference
11.The Battle of Stalingrad was won by which country?
a) Germany
b) Soviet Union
c) Japan
d) United States
12. What was the American atomic bomb program called?
a) War Devastation Project
b) Atom's Eve Project
c) Manhattan Project
d) Munich Project
13. The Axis Powers included Japan, Germany, and __________________.
a) Spain
b) Soviet Union
c) Italy
d) France
14. The term Nisei refers to ___________ Americans born of immigrant parents.
a) Japanese
b) Russian
c) Navajo
d) German
15. The attack on Pearl Harbor,
a) marked the first foreign attack on an American state
b) brought the United States out of its neutral stance on WWII
c) followed the Atomic bombings
d) devastated the State of Hawaii
16. The only code not broken by the Axis powers came from which people?
a) Navajo
b) Inuit
c) Nisei
d) Mayan
17. Which cities were atomically bombed?
a) Aachen and Majdanek
b) Okinawa and Iwo Jima
c) Leyte Island and Midway
d) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
18. The deliberate extermination of a specific group of people is known as _____________.
a) terrorism
b) euthanasia
c) genocide
d) appeasement
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19. Nazi war criminal were tried in which place?

a) Tokyo
b) Berlin
c) Nuremberg
d) Helsinki
20. Which side won World War I?
a) Axis Powers
b) Allied Powers
c) Central Powers
d) Confederate Powers

Match the leadership with the appropriate ally group.

Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Hideki Tojo
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Benito Mussolini

21. Allied Powers

a)
b)
c)
22. Axis Powers
a)
b)
c)

Short answer

23. What are four reasons that World War II begin?

a)
b)
c)
d)
24. What is a belligerent? __________________________________________________
25. What treaty ended WWI? _______________________________________________
26. What was the result of the Yalta Conference?
____________________________________________________________________________
27. Describe the state of the American economy prior to WWII
____________________________________________________________________________
28. What does Nazi mean in German?
________________________________________________
29. What was the name of the plane that dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
_____________________
30. Which President dropped the bombs on Japan?
____________________________________
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