World History- World War II Pretest

Directions: Fill in the Blank with a word or phrase that accurately finishes
the statement
Word Bank
Germany
Nazi
World War I
Great Britain
Benito Mussolini
Axis Powers
Pearl Harbor
Japanese
Poland
World War II
Blitzkrieg

France
surrender
French
Theaters
Adolf Hitler
bombing
United States

1. ____________ was the main loser in World War I. Its economy and its military
were destroyed.
2. A war veteran named _____________ used this depression to gain power in
Germany.
3. Hitler led a political party called the ________ and became the leader of
Germany in 1933.
4. In 1931, ______________ armies invaded Chinese territory. Soon an undeclared
war broke out between the two nations.
5. It seems as if nations had not learned their lesson from ____________. The
world was headed towards conflict again.
6. German troops invaded neighboring ___________ on September 1, 1939.
7. ______________ and ___________ declared war on Germany two days after they
invaded Poland.
8. Historians regard the 1939 attack on Poland as the start of __________________.
9. German troops in tanks and aircraft raced across Poland and forced the
country to ______________ in three weeks.
10.The Germans used a style of fighting called _________, or lightning war.
11.The _______ were Germanys next target. They surrendered quickly in June
1940.
12.Italy joined Germany in a military alliance. Italy was led by a dictator named
_________________.
13.In September 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan signed a pact together
officially establishing them as the ___________.
14.German aircraft began _________ Great Britain in July 1940.
15.On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed United States Navy ships at
_____________.
16._________ declared war on Japan the day after the Pearl Harbor attack.

17.World War II was to be fought in two ___________: The European and Pacific
Theater.
True/False: Mark whether or not the statement is true or false
18.____Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt adopted a Japan first policy.
19.____The Allies decided to focus all of their efforts into defeating Germany first.
They would then move onto defeating Italy and Japan afterwards.
20.____For almost two years, the British waged war with Germany and Italy in
the Caribbean deserts.
21.____The flat desert was perfect motorcycle territory.
22.____The German forces in North Africa were led by Erwin Rommel.
23.____In February 1943, U.S. forced faced Rommel at Kasserine Pass in North
Africa where they were easily defeated and forced to retreat.
24.____More men and equipment was brought to the front. The allies finally
drove the Japanese out of North Africa.
25.____Winston Churchill urged the Allies to invade the German-controlled
European countries through the Mediterranean Sea. They invaded through
Sicily, Italy.
26.____The Allies secured the island after 233 days of fighting. Adolf Hitler was
removed from power and a new government was set up in Italy.
27.____ Germany invaded Italy with a powerful military force. Italys previous
ally had not invaded.
28.____The Allies tried to remove Germany from Italy, but the campaign proved
that the Mediterranean was not the underbelly of Europe that Churchill had
originally believed.
29.____Germany was subject to round-the-clock bombings.
30.____Allied leaders targeted German armies in their bombing runs, but
sometimes they accidentally hit civilian cities.
31.____On June 6, 1944, the Allies started the Somme campaign, which would
eventually lead to victory in Europe for the Allies.
32.____ The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle that U.S. soldiers
participated in.
33.____Germany officially surrendered to the Allies on May 7, 1945.

Multiple Choice: Choose the letter that most accurately completes

the statement.
34.____There were ______ negative views about World War II in the United States.
A. Some
C. No
B. Few
D. Mostly
35.____Most Americans saw the _______ forces as an evil entity that needed to be
destroyed for the good of humanity.
A. Axis Powers
B. Allied Powers

C. Central Powers
D. Influential Powers

36.____American civilians fought their own war on the battleground known as the
____________.
A. Battle of North America
B. Battle for Middle Earth

C. Struggle for independence

D. Home Front

37.____Every city held ___________ drills. Neither the Japanese nor the Germans
had planes that could reach American soil, but the American populations
wanted to remain vigilant and prepared.
A. Air Raid
C. Fire
B. Tornado
D. Tank
38.____Fear moved the nation into passing ________________ Internment law.
A. Italian
C. Jewish
B. Japanese
D. Native American
39.____The United States removed all Japanese citizens from the West Coast and
sent them further inland to ______________ camps.
A. Summer
C. Internment
B. Work
D. Concentration
40.____Many factories that had stopped production during the Great Depression
started __________ goods for the war effort.
A. Producing
C. protesting
B. Destroying
D. burning
41.Many American ____________ had a change in their lifestyle during the war.
A. Soldiers
C. Citizens
B. Politicians
D. Commanders
42.Women were desperately needed in ___________ and outnumbered men in
many industrial plants.
A. The Army
C. Hospitals
B. The Navy
D. factories
43.The American workforce was ______ women by 1945.
A. 45%
C. 55%

B. 36%
D. 90%
44.Americans started planting ______________ gardens that allowed the
government to send farm-raised produce overseas to military personnel.
A. Victory
C. Freedom
B. Personal
D. Liberty
45.On April 12, 1945 President Roosevelt collapsed and died. The stress of the
war had taken its toll. ____________ replaced Roosevelt immediate as
President of the United States.
A. Richard Nixon
B. Dwight D. Eisenhower

C. Herbert Hoover
D. John F. Kennedy

Directions: Fill in the Blank with a word or phrase that accurately finishes
the statement
Word Bank
Japanese
Aleutian Islands
Island
Island
Philippine
Bonsai
dozen
radiation
surrender
four
turning point
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
atomic bomb
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
46.To the Americans, the ____________ seemed to be a worse enemy that the
Germans. They had shot American soldiers that were captured or trying to
surrender.
47.Japan enjoyed conquest after conquest during the first ________ months of the
war.
48.The Japanese tried to lure the United States Navy away by sending a decoy
attack at ___________________.
49.The Battle of Midway was a _____________ for the war in the Pacific. The
United States Navy destroyed 4 carriers of Japans and Japan only destroyed
1 carrier of the United States.
50.The US military took an __________ by __________ strategy to approach the
shores of Japan.
51.The last major sea battle during the Pacific Theater was fought during the
_______________ operation. Japans Navy was defeated soon after.
52.The U.S. Marines invaded the islands of ____________ and ____________. There
was fierce battle from the start on these two islands.

53.The Japanese did not use __________ attacks during these two battles. They
remained in fortified positions and had the U.S. Marines come to them.
54.On August 5, 1945, a B-20 Bomber flew towards Japan carrying an
_____________.
55.The atomic bomb was the most devastating weapon ever created and only a
few ________ Americans knew about its existence.
56.The first atomic bomb was dropped on ________________. The entire city was
engulfed in flames.
57.90,000 Hiroshima residents died on the first day and even more died from the
___________ fallout that came afterwards.
58.The US demanded Japanese surrender but they refused. The second atomic
bomb was dropped on the city of _______________.
59.The Japanese government finally announced on August 14 that it would
_________ to the United States government.