Quiz #3
World War II
1. Which of the following is an example of genocide?
a. When an individual hates an entire race of people.
b. When an entire ethnic group is wiped out.
c. When ethnic discrimination is legalized by the government.
d. When a person is denied a job based on their ethnicity.
2. What was the Final Solution?
a. The Nazis’ plan to murder all
European Jews.
b. A Jewish revolt in the Warsaw ghetto.
c. A law that denied Jews citizenship.
d. America’s war plan against Germany.
3. According to the political cartoon to the right…
a. England represents the gap in the bridge.
b. the League of Nations remains weak
without the United States included.
c. the League of Nations includes the
countries of Germany and the Soviet
Union.
d. none of the above.
4. What caused Neville Chamberlain to appease
Adolf Hitler?
a. His belief that Britain would eventually defeat Hitler.
b. His desire to avoid another world war.
c. His belief that Britain would be crushed by Hitler’s army.
d. His personal friendship with Hitler.
5. What is being portrayed in the political cartoon to the right?
a. The Non-Aggression agreement between Hitler and Stalin of
1938.
b. The Lend-Lease Act between Roosevelt and Churchill of
1940.
c. The Munich Agreement between Chamberlain and Hitler of
1938.
d. The Iron Pact between Hitler and Mussolini of 1938.
6. How was Hitler’s Nazi government different from the previous German government?
a. The previous government was a monarchy; Hitler’s was a military.
b. The previous government was Communist; Hitler was a Fascist.
c. The previous government was democratic; Hitler was a dictator.
d. The previous government mistreated its citizens; Hitler treated all citizens fairly.
7. In contrast to democracy, which form of government uses the military to maintain power against the
people’s consent?
a. monarchy
c. theocracy
b. dictatorship
d. oligarchy
8. How would your life be different if you lived under the rule of a fascist dictatorship?
a. Your civil rights, like freedom of speech, might be taken away.
b. You would be separated from your family.
c. Your property might be taken away by the Communist Party.
d. You would no longer be allowed to go to school or play sports.
9. The hats on the hooks of the political
cartoon to the right represent…
a. the countries that have defeated the
German army during World War II.
b. the countries of the League of
Nations.
c. the countries Hitler has defeated in
World War II.
d. the representatives at the Munich
Conference.
10. The Lend-Lease Act of 1941…
a. supplied countries such as Great Britain and France with war materials and money.
b. kept the United States out of war, but allowed them to help their allies.
c. led to submarine attacks on American ships in the Atlantic Ocean.
d. all of the above.
11.
“We have no quarrel with the German people, except that they allow themselves to be governed by the
Nazi Government. As long as that Government exists and pursues the methods it has so persistently
followed during the last two years, there will be no peace in Europe. We shall merely pass from one
crisis to another, and see one country after another attacked by methods which have now become familiar
to us in their sickening technique.”
Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain, Speech to Parliament 1939
What event of World War II is being described by Neville Chamberlain in the quote above?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.
The opening of the Auschwitz Death Camp by the Nazi government.
The signing of the Lend-Lease Act by the United States of America.
The invasion of Poland by the German military.
12. What cause of the bombing of Pearl Harbor is being
illustrated to the right?
a. The Lend-Lease Act
b. The Iron Pact
c. An oil embargo on the Japanese government
d. The annexation of Manchuria by the Japanese.
13. A major cause of the internment of JapaneseAmericans during World War II was…
a. because of immigration quotas established by
the U.S.
b. because the U.S. government was suspicious of
spies and sabotage.
c. due to the economic depression.
d. due to racial prejudices.
14. The significance of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was that…
a. atomic bombs/nuclear weapons were being used for the 1st time in world history.
b. the Japanese military proved to be the strongest in the world.
c. the United States of America became the 1st world super power.
d. the Soviet Union and the Germans signed a treaty promising not to invade each other’s country.
15.
After the defeat of Japan in World War II, the United States led the Allies in the occupation and
rehabilitation of the Japanese state…the U.S….forces…enacted widespread military, political,
economic, and social reforms…MacArthur also tried…to [change] the economy into a free market
capitalist system…Allied advisors…dictated a new constitution.
Source: U.S. Department of State
The Allies helped Japan rebuild after World War II. Which describes how the Allies were involved in
rebuilding Japan?
a. The Allies sent military forces to rebuild Japan’s government and economic structures.
b. The Allies sent military forces to help regulate Japan’s wealthy economy.
c. The Allies sent military forces to take control of Japan’s military forces.
d. The Allies sent military forces to rebuild Japan’s armed forces to protect the country.
16. After World War II, which two countries became the world’s super powers?
a. China and Great Britain
b. Great Britain and the United States of America
c. The United States of America and the Soviet Union
d. The Soviet Union and Japan
17. Due to the devastation of Britain’s economy after World War II, they were forced to declare independence
to many of their colonies around the world, including…
a. The United States of America.
b. India.
c. Australia.
d. New Zealand.
18. At the Yalta Conference, the Big 3 (Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill) agreed to…
a. sign a treaty to never go to war with each other again.
b. demilitarize the Sudetenland.
c. divide Germany into four zones of occupation.
d. put surviving Nazis on trial in Nuremberg,
Germany.
19. The “iron curtain” that separated Western and
Eastern Europe represented the division
between…
a. independent, democratic countries versus
countries under Soviet Union, communist
influence.
b. Great Britain versus the Soviet Union.
c. absolute monarchial governments versus the
democracies in Czechoslovakia and Austria.
d. countries of the United Nations versus
countries of NATO.
20. The map to the right represents…
a. the division of India between the four
super powers of the world.
b. the division of Berlin, Germany into
zones of occupation after World War II.
c. the ethnic boundaries of German people
living in Berlin after World War II.
d. The fight over governmental control of
Cuba.