WW2 Review
From Notes:
Study all notes!
Know Hitler notes.
Know the order of Major Events.
Know dates and places of important WW2 battles.
a. Bulge
b. D-Day
c. El Alamein
d. Stalingrad
e. Midway
f. Pearl Harbor
g. Guadalcanal
h. Coral Sea
i. Iwo Jima and Okinawa
j. Invasion of Sicily
Vocabulary
a. Alliance
b. Nationalism
c. Arms Race
d. Imperialism
e. Treaty of Versailles
f. Blitzkrieg
g. Wehrmacht
h. Mein Kampf
i. Weimar
j. Einsatzgruppen
People
a. Churchill
b. Roosevelt
c. Truman
d. De Gaulle
e. Stalin
f. Montgomery
g. Patton
h. Eisenhower
i. MacArthur
j. Oppenheimer
a. Yamamoto
b. Hirohito
c. Tojo
d. Mussolini
e. Kamikaze
f. Hitler
g. Goebbels
h. Rommel
i. Von Seeckt
j. Von Ribbentrop
Text Reading
1.This Italian form of government was built on extreme nationalism and racism.
a. Communist
b. fascist
c. capitalist
d. totalitarian
2.This German dictator gained his popularity by exploiting concern about inflation and unemployment.
a. Adolf Hitler
b. Neville Chamberlain
c. Benito Mussolini
d. Joseph Stalin
3.This Communist leader of the Soviet Union demanded complete obedience from the people.
a. Neville Chamberlain
b. Benito Mussolini
c. Joseph Stalin
d. Adolf Hitler
4.This pact shocked the leaders of Europe because it freed Adolf Hitler to invade Poland.
a. German-Japanese Aggression Pact
b. Nazi-Italian Pact
c. France-Britain Pact
d. Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
5.This country was the first to use the Lend-Lease Act.
a. Germany
b. France
c. Great Britain
d. United States
6.This was the worst defeat in the United States military history.
a. Battle of Britain
b. Pearl Harbor
c. Invasion of Italy
d. Normandy
7.The German general in command of North Africa was
a. Erwin Rommel.
b. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
c. Ernie Pyle.
d. George Patton.
8.Only 54,000 of the 76,000 Allied prisoners of war reached the camp on this march.
a. Auschwitz Death March
b. March Overlord
c. the Long March
d. Bataan Death March
9.This general was commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific.
a. Dwight D. Eisenhower
b. Erwin Rommel
c. Douglas MacArthur
d. George Patton
10.The first atomic bomb was dropped by the Americans on this country.
a. Germany
b. Japan
c. China
d. France
11.This Ethiopian leader warned, "It is us today. It will be you tomorrow."
a. Haile Selassie
b. Benito Mussolini
c. Adolf Hitler
d. Joseph Stalin
12.Adolf Hitler established this form of government in Germany.
a. Communist
b. socialist
c. capitalist
d. totalitarian
13.At this conference Great Britain and France appeased Germany by giving Hitler the Sudetenland.
a. Malta Conference
b. Munich Conference
c. Potsdam Conference
d. Versailles Conference
14.This was a string of steel-and-concrete bunkers along the German border where France and British forces
settled in during 1939 and 1940.
a. Eastern Front Line
b. Northern Line
c. Maginot Line
d. Line at Dunkirk
15.This country was NOT part of the Allied Powers.
a. Soviet Union
b. Germany
c. United States
d. Great Britain
16.This country was NOT part of the Axis Powers.
a. Germany
b. Italy
c. Japan
d. United States
17.This general was commander of the Allied forces in Europe.
a. Douglas MacArthur
b. George Patton
c. Dwight D. Eisenhower
d. Erwin Rommel
18.Genocide was the "final solution" used by the Nazis against 6 million of this group of people in the
Holocaust.
a. white men and women
b. African Americans
c. Catholics
d. Jews
19.General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz adopted a strategy known as
a. island hopping.
b. kamikaze.
c. the Manhattan Project.
d. V-J Day.
20.War crime trials for the Nazis were held in
a. Beijing.
b. Nuremberg.
c. Paris.
d. London.