World History- World War ll Test

Question 1

Japan’s expansionist policies during the 1930’s was supported by these two groups : ultranationalists & _________________ leaders

Answer 1

military

Question 2

______________ was the type of government that was found in the Soviet Union & the totalitarian dictator who was its leader was named _________________________

Answer 2

1. Communism
2. Joseph Stalin

Question 3

_____________________ was the Fascist dictator of Italy beginning in 1929, while ___________________ became the Fascist dictator of Germany in 1935.

Answer 3

1. Benito Mussolini
2. Adolf Hitler

Question 4

_________________ was the Emperor of Japan but by 1940, the military leader, General _______________ was the chief minister & was in charge of all government policy.

Answer 4

1. Hirohito
2. Hideki Tojo

Question 5

One of the reasons for Japanese oversea expansionism during the 1930’s was to gain food sources & _______________________ that their islands needed & were not getting through trade due to the ongoing ___________________.

Answer 5

1. raw materials
2. Great Depression

Question 6

The ______________________________ was fought from 1936-1939 & it acted as a testing ground for the troops & military technology of Germany, Italy, & the USSR

Answer 6

The Spanish Civil War

Question 7

Anschluss, the union of ___________ & their forced annexation of _______________ happened in March of 1938.

Answer 7

1. Germany
2. Austria

Question 8

______________ or giving into demands in order to avoid a war was used by both ______________ & ____________ at the Munich Conference in September of 1938 and allowed __________ to take the German area of Czechoslovakia which was called the _______________.

Answer 8

1. Appeasement
2. Britain
3. France
4. Germany
5. Sudetenland

Question 9

In August of 1939, the ____________________ Pact was made. It was an agreement between Hilter & Stalin not to fight each other in the event of a war, but also to secretly split _______________ in half.

Answer 9

1. Non-agression
2. Poland

Question 10

WWll began in Europe when Germany invaded _______________ on September 1, 1939 when Hitler had demanded the strip of land called the ____________________

Answer 10

1. Poland
2. Polish Corridor

Question 11

WWll began in Asia in the year ________ when Japan invaded ________.

Answer 11

1. 1937
2. China

Question 12

The “Rape of Nanjing” occurred after ___________ troops were allowed by their commands to rob, rape, and murder the Chinese troops & civilians of that city in 1937.

Answer 12

Japanese

Question 13

________________, also known as lightning warfare (aerial attacks followed by mehcanized ground forces) was used by _________

Answer 13

1. Blitzkrieg
2. Germany

Question 14

The original three Axis Powers in the year 1940 were- ________, __________, & ________

Answer 14

1. Germany
2. Italy
3. Japan

Question 15

In the spring of 1940, the Germans were able to move their forces without being noticed through the thick __________ Forest & therefore invade France without having to attack against the __________ Line, which was the very strong French defense on their shared border.

Answer 15

1. Ardennes
2. Maginot

Question 16

_______________ was the evacuation/rescue of over 340,000 British & French soldiers who were trapped by advancing German troops on the French coastline of the _________ Channel in June of 1940.

Answer 16

1. Dunkirk
2. English

Question 17

The collaborator government that controlled the southern France for the Nazi’s was called _________.

Answer 17

Vichy

Question 18

During the summer of _________, the Battle of _________ was fought and for over 2 months, the German ______________ (air force) bombed English cities in order to try to make them surrender.

Answer 18

1. 1940
2. Britain
3. Luftwaffe

Question 19

The Prime Minister of Britain during WWll was _____________

Answer 19

Winston Churchill

Question 20

The US President at the start of WWll was ___________________ & he ended up serving into a ________ term.

Answer 20

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. 4th

Question 21

The leader of Nationalist China during WWll was ____________ & his forces along with Mao Zedong’s ____________ rebel forces started to fight the Japanese after their 1937 invasion.

Answer 21

1. Jiang Jieshi
2. communist

Question 22

The two goals for the Japanese in Asia & the Pacific was to gain new lands in order to acquire the natural _______________ their military, industry & population needed. The other goal was to create an empire by __________ all Asian ethnicities under their rule while expelling all _______ influences.

Answer 22

1. resources
2. uniting
3. Western

Question 23

The Lend-Lease Act was made by the ______ in the year ___________ and it helped ________ as well as the USSR & China acquire much needed military supplies.

Answer 23

1. US
2. 1941
3. Britain

Question 24

December 7, 1941; the _________ enters WWll following the Japanese attack on their naval base at _______________ in Hawaii.

Answer 24

1. United States
2. Pearl Harbor

Question 25

Hitler broke his pact with Stalin when he ordered his troops to invade the __________ in June of 1941. Known as ____________________, the German forces attack in three different directions through the summer.

Answer 25

1. USSR 2. Operation Barbarossa

Question 26

The northern USSR city of ________________ was surrounded & laid siege to by the Germans for over 900 days fron the fall of ______ to January _______. Over half of the city's population died, but the city never ________________.

Answer 26

1. Leningrad 2. 1941 3. 1944 4. surrendered

Question 27

The Battle of ___________ in North Africa during the summer/fall of 1942 was important because the British stopped the combined German/Italian attack cross Egypt as they tried to capture the important _________ Canal.

Answer 27

1. El Alamein 2. Suez

Question 28

Soon after the Allied (British & US) invasion of ________________________, which was called the "soft underbelly of Europe," their leader __________________ was arrested. This led to their surrender to the Allies in the year ____________. However, Hitler sent in German troops to defend the country against the advancing Allies.

Answer 28

1. Italy 2. Benito Mussolini 3. 1943

Question 29

The turning point Battle of the war in Europe was at _________. This Battle took place in the ________________ & it lasted from October 1942 to February 1943. ___________ forces surrounded the German army leading to nearly 1 million soldiers being killed or taken prisoner & then began their own advance westward against the retreating Axis forces.

Answer 29

1. Stalingrad 2. USSR 3. Soviet

Question 30

The largest land, Sea, & air invasion ever assembled was made by the Allies. It was known as ___________ & it successfully attacked the Axis defended beaches of the ______________ region in France on the date _______________.

Answer 30

1. D-Day 2. Normandy 3. June 6, 1944

Question 31

The last German offensive of WWll was called _____________. It was named as such due to the balloon shaped wedge it created in the line soft the US troops within the ______________ Forest in Belgium. The ______________ also played an important part of the initial success in the German attack because the conditions kept US O'Kanes on the ground.

Answer 31

1. The Bulge 2. Ardennes 3. weather/winter

Question 32

The name of the strategy that the US used in the war against Japan in the Pacific was called ________________.

Answer 32

Island hopping

Question 33

The forced March of Allied POWs after Japan's capture of the _____________ in the May of 1942 was know as the _________ Death March.

Answer 33

1. Philipines 2. Baatan

Question 34

________________ was the overall commander of the American forces in the war against _________ in the Pacific.

Answer 34

1. Douglas Macarthur 2. Japan

Question 35

In May of 1942 the aircraft from US Naval aircraft carriers stopped a Japanese invasion fleet off New Guinea. The name of the battle was called _____________________________, & it resulted in preventing a Japanese attack on Port Moresby, helping to keep _________________ from being within range of Japanese air attacks.

Answer 35

1. Battle of the Coral Sea 2. Australia

Question 36

The turning point in the war in the Pacific was at the Battle of ___________. This Battle cost the Japanese navy 4 ____________ and this led to the Japanese navy having to become more _________ in the war.

Answer 36

1. Midway 2. aircraft carriers 3. defensive

Question 37

Bombing of Japan from land-based US first began when American forces captured islands in the ______________ Island chain. But the distance & pilot fatigue too much from her. So it wasn't until Februaury-March of 1945 when US forces captured the island of _____________ & could now bomb Japan from the air because of its closer distance.

Answer 37

1. Marshall & Marina 2. Iwo Jima

Question 38

The final island that the US captured before they could get to Japan was ______________. It was here that huge number of ____________________ crashed their planes into US Naval vessels & also civilians were expected to help resist Americans on the island.

Answer 38

1. Okinawa 2. Kamikaze pilots

Question 39

The Allied air attacks on German industry, transportation, military bases, & cities grew in both the number & intensity during the summer of _________. Not only was the ability of German to produce war needs harmed, but thousands of ____________ (non-soldiers) were killed in these raids.

Answer 39

1. 1944 2. civilians

Question 40

The top secret making of the atomic bomb was called the ___________________ & it was constructed in many locations. One location was ______________ in Tennessee due to the TVA hydroelectric power. It was eventually tested out in the desert near ________________ in New Mexico.

Answer 40

1. Manhattan Project 2. Oak Ridge 3. Los Alamos

Question 41

The laws that stripped civil & economic rights away from Jews in Germant starting in 1935 were called? ________________. Besides Jews having to wear the identification Star of David and not allowing marriage with non-Jews, what were 2 other restrictions that were placed on the Jewish population of Germany in 1935?

Answer 41

1. the Nuremburg laws (for the blank) OTHER ANSWERS: 1. can't hold government jobs 2. can't provide law or medicine

Question 42

A ___________ is the planned murder of a specific people based on their ethnicity or religion. This was carried out against Europe's ___________- population by the Nazis during WWll & it was known as the _____________.

Answer 42

1. Genocide 2. Jew 3. Holocaust

Question 43

many ships together

Answer 43

many ships together

Question 44

US, USSR, Britian

Answer 44

Big 3

Question 45

court meeting for Nazis in Germany

Answer 45

Nurembrug Trials

Question 46

resistance fighters

Answer 46

partisans

Question 47

supreme commander of all allied Europe troops

Answer 47

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 48

president after FDR

Answer 48

Harry Truman

Question 49

leader of maleina - atomic bombs

Answer 49

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 50

atomic bombs attacks

Answer 50

Hiroshima & nagasaki