Unit 12 Review Game: World War II
1.
Name 2 reasons Germany was angry about the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles after
World War I
2.
Name 3 characteristics of “totalitarianism”
3.
Name 3 totalitarian dictators and the countries they controlled
4.
Name 1 territory that each of the following countries attacked before World War II began:
(a) Japan, (b) Italy, and (c) Germany
5.
Britain and France as the leaders of the League of Nations used the policy of __________
in which they gave in to German, Italian, and Japanese demands in order to avoid war.
6.
Place the following events in the correct chronological order: (a) Nazi-Soviet
Nonaggression Pact, (b) German invasion of Poland, (c) German annexation of Austria,
(d) outbreak of World War II
7.
What 3 countries made up the “Axis Coalition” (the Tripartite Pact)?
8.
Name 3 of the many countries that formed the Allied Powers in WWII
9.
What military tactic did Germany use to take control of Europe and France by 1942?
10. What did the Neutrality Acts of 1935-1937 outlaw?
11. In 1939, the USA altered the Neutrality Acts to allow arms sales to Britain, but we did not
pro vide loans nor did the USA offer to ship weapons to Britain on American ships. What
was this program called?
12. In 1941, France had fallen, Britain was under siege, and the USSR was attacked by the
Nazis. In responses, the USA altered the Neutrality Acts by giving full support to the Allies
through arms sales and transportation of these weapons on American ships. What was
this program called that made the USA the “arsenal of democracy?
13. What was 1 of the 2 things that Britain and the USA agreed to when they drafted the
Atlantic Charter in 1941?
14. Place the following events in the correct chronological order: (a) Lend-Lease Act, (b)
Neutrality Acts, (c) Cash-and-Carry program, (d) Pearl Harbor attack
15. Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941?
16. What was the purpose of the U.S. gov’t agency the War Production Board?
17. Name 3 ways the USA committed to total war during World War II
18. Name 1 similarity and 1 difference African Americans experienced during World War I and
World War II
19. Name 1 similarity and 1 difference women experienced during World War I and WWII?
20. Why did FDR issue Executive Order 9066 that forced Japanese Americans into internment
camps?
21. Who was A Philip Randolph and what significant change did he help bring about on the
U.S. home front during World War II?
22. Which of the following European battles helped the USA get Lend-Lease supplies into
Europe: (a) Stalingrad, (b) Battle of the Atlantic, (c) Battle of the Bulge, (d) D-Day
23. Which of the following European battles proved to be the “turning point” that allowed
the Soviet Union to push towards Germany and eventually seize Berlin?
(a) Stalingrad, (b) Battle of the Atlantic, (c) Battle of the Bulge, (d) D-Day
24. Which of the following European battles was planned by Dwight Eisenhower and allowed
the Allies to launch and invasion of Nazi-occupied France and push towards German from
the West? (a) Stalingrad, (b) Battle of the Atlantic, (c) Battle of the Bulge, (d) D-Day
25. What reason did FDR give as to why he did not order Nazi concentration camps (with
Jewish victims of the Final Solution) liberated or attacked when we knew they existed?
26. Which of the following battles against Japan proved to be the “turning point” in the war
in the Pacific? (a) Iwo Jima, (b) Midway, (c) Okinawa, (d) Guadalcanal
27. What strategy did the military develop that allowed the United States to quickly take
control of the Pacific Ocean in its fight towards Japan?
28. What desperate strategy did the Japanese use to attack U.S. naval ships during the
fighting in the Pacific?
29. Pick any 2 of the following people and explain what role they played in developing the
atomic bomb: (a) Albert Einstein, (b) Franklin Roosevelt, (c) Robert Oppenheimer
30. Explain the significance of each: (a) Manhattan project; (b) Los Alamos, New Mexico; (c)
Potsdam Declaration
31. Two part question: (a) Which U.S. president gave the order to drop the atomic bomb?
(b) Which 2 cities were atomic bombed?
32. Name 2 things that FDR, Churchill, and Stalin agreed to at the Yalta Conference in
February 1945
33. What was the significance of the Potsdam Conference in July 1945?
34. Put the following Pacific theater events in the correct order: (a) Doolittle raid on Tokyo;
(b) Japanese surrender; (c) Island hopping strategy developed; (d) Battle of Midway
35. Name 2 impacts of WWII on the United States
Unit 12 Review Game: World War II
The Answers
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Germany had to accept war guilt, pay $33 billion in reparations to the Allies, lost all
overseas colonies, high inflation of their currency, economic depression
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Dictators with complete power, single party rule, demands loyalty of the people, use
police power to control the people, increased militarism, territorial expansion, promoted
extreme nationalism
3.
Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy, Stalin in the Soviet Union, Hideki Tojo in Japan,
Francisco Franco in Spain
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(a) Manchuria, China, East Indies (b) Ethiopia, Libya, Albania; (c) Austria, Sudetenland
(part of Czechoslovakia), all of Czechoslovakia, Poland
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Appeasement
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C, A, B, D
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Germany, Italy, Japan
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USA, Britain, France, USSR, China, Australia, Canada
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Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”)
10. Weapons sales or loans to any country at war
11. Cash-and-Carry program
12. Lend-Lease program
13. Developed a battle plan for war; Agreed to form a United Nations; agreed to Allied goals
for the war
14. B, C, A, D
15. The USA cut off oil and iron from Japan (embargo) and the Japanese retaliated with an
attack; The USA tried to stop the Japanese from expanding further into the Pacific; The
USA tried to stop Japan from taking the Philippine Islands
16. To oversee military production during WW2
17. Draft, rationing, victory/war bonds, propaganda, limitations on individual rights (Japanese
internment & censorship), government control of wartime industrial production, price
controls
18. Similarities: Great Migration; drafted into the army but into segregated units; worked in
industrial jobs; faced racial discrimination in new cities; received unequal pay (at least at
the beginning the war)
Differences: In WWII, African Americans moved North & WEST; A Philip Randolph helped
force FDR to form the Fair Employment Practices Commission which gave black workers
equal pay during the war; Black soldiers were allowed to fight in WWII (Tuskegee Airmen)
19. Similarities: Women worked factory job s; Women served in the military in clerical jobs;
Helped ration goods & plant victory gardens; Received unequal pay
Differences: During WWII, 6 million women entered the work force who had never
worked before (during WWI, factory jobs were done almost exclusively by women who
were already working in lower-paying jobs); Were pilots in the Army & Navy; Special noncombat units were created in the military just for women (WACs and WAVES); Women
used daycare centers for their children
20. Americans believed that Japanese Americans would serve as spies or launch an invasion
of the USA
21. He was an African American civil rights leader who was upset by unequal pay scales for
black workers; After threatening to march on Washington D.C. during the war, FDR
created the Fair Employment Practices Commission to give black factory workers equal
pay to whites.
22. B (Battle of the Atlantic)
23. A (Stalingrad)
24. D (D-Day)
25. FDR believed that the best way to help those imprisoned in concentration camps was to
win the war as early as possible; Liberating the camps would divert badly needed supplies
from the troops fighting the Germans.
26. B (Midway)
27. Island hopping strategy
28. Kamikaze attacks (“divine wind”)
29. (a) Wrote FDR a letter suggesting that atomic energy could be used to build a nuclear
bomb; (b) Created the Manhattan Project to develop the bomb; (c) Was in charge of the
Manhattan Project and building the bomb
30. (a) Code name for the secret project to develop an atomic bomb; (b) Where the atomic
bomb was secretly tested (Operation Trinity); (c) The warning President Truman gave to
the Japanese before dropping the atomic bomb (Surrender or face prompt and utter
destruction)
31. (a) Truman (b) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
32. Demanded the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers, created the United Nations,
allow freedom in Europe (self-determination), planned the oversight and division of
Germany
33. Truman first learned that the atomic bomb was ready; Truman issued the Potsdam
Declaration and ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima; the USA and
USSR divided Germany
34. A, D, C, B
35. The USA joined the United Nations; the Cold War began; the age of nuclear weapons
began; the Great Depression came to an end; America entered an era of prosperity in the
1950s; Women lost their high paying industrial jobs; Israel was created; Nazi and
Japanese officers were tried and executed for war crimes
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