SOCIAL STUDIES/ SOCIAL SCIENCE – World War II
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Choose the best answer.
1. It is a political movement that promotes an extreme form
of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party
rule.
A.
Totalitarianism
B. Communism
C. Fascism
D. Nazism
2. The Axis
Powers during World War II include Germany, Italy, and ______.
A. China
B. Japan
C. Russia
D. Poland
3. The alliance
of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II
was called _______.
A. NATO
B. Central
Powers
C. Allied Powers
D. Western
Powers
4. It means "Lighting
war", a typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in
1939.
A. Blitzkrieg
B. Big
Bertha
C. Langsam krieg
D. Gemeinschaft
5. What
started World War II?
A. The
bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.
B. The
invasion of Poland by Russia.
C. The
declaration of war on Germany by United Kingdom and France.
D. The invasion of Poland by Germany.
6. He was a Bolshevik
revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the
Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist,
using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush
opposition.
A. Vladimir
Putin
B. Vladimir
Lenin
C. Joseph Stalin
D. Leon
Trotsky
7. It is the
name given to the air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective
of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF).
A. The Battle of Britain
B. Tora,
Tora, Tora
C. The Fall
of Britain
D. The
Flying Ducks
8. He was a
leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the
Nationalists. He established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled
from 1949 until 1976.
A. Zhou
Enlai
B. Chen
Duxiu
C. Li Dazhao
D. Mao Zedong
9. In 1931, Japanese army officers
blew up tracks on a Japanese owned Railroad line and claimed the Chinese did
it. In "self-defense" they attacked Chinese forces without their
government's consent. This was referred to as ____________.
A. the Chinese Scandal
B. the Manchurian Incident
C. the Rocky Railroad
D. the Train to Heaven
10. It is the route by which the US
was sending munitions to the Chinese who were resisting the Japanese.
A. Burma Road
B. Silk Road
C. Pacific Theater
D. Brick Road
11. It was the policy adopted by the
United States in 1939 to preserve neutrality while aiding the Allies. Britain
and France could buy goods from the United States if they paid in full and
transported them.
A. Lend Lease Policy
B. Seven - Eleven
C. Cash & Carry
D. War Bonds
12. Initiated by US Agriculture
Secretary Claude Wickard in December 1941, the Americans were encouraged to
grow their own vegetables to support the war effort during World War II. This
program was called ______.
A. Salad Bowl
B. G.I. Joe
C. Green Revolution
D. Victory Garden
13. The name used to refer to the war
in the Pacific where most islands were involved. Japan tried to take these
islands and sent 65 bombing raids all the way to Australia.
A. The Pacific Islands War
B. The Flying Geese
C. The Pacific Theater
D. Island Hopping
14. It took place in Europe between
1933 and 1945. Six million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered by
the Nazis and their collaborators.
A. Holocaust
B. Apartheid
C. Ethnic cleansing
D. Gas poisoning
15. In World War II, Japanese pilots
who loaded their aircraft with bombs and crashed them into enemy ships are
called _______.
A. Samurais
B. Kampais
C. Kamikazes
D. Hara-kiris
16. It was a secret research and
development project of the US to develop the atomic bomb. Its success granted
the US the bombs that ended the war with Japan as well as ushering the country
into the atomic era.
A. The Manhattan Project
B. The Secret Gardens Project
C. The Pacific Theater
D. The H-Bomb Project
17. It means the “Night of the Broken
Glass” in November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish
property and terrorized Jews as part of Germany’s anti-Semitism campaign.
A. Weihnachtsbeleuchtung
B. Fröhlichenacht
C. Partynacht
D. Kristallnacht
18. Detention centers where more than
100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of US
President Franklin Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066 that lasted from February
19, 1942 until March1946.
A. Death Camps
B. Internment Camps
C. Relocations Centers
D. Concentration Camps
19. The name of the American B-29
bomber, piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets, Jr., that dropped the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945.
A. Big Bertha
B. Rosie the Riveter
C. Enola Gay
D. Little Boy
20. A propaganda character designed to
increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying
symbol for women to do their part.
A. Big Bertha
B. Rosie the Riveter
C. Enola Gay
D. Olive Oyl
21. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the
Battle of Normandy began on June 6, 1944, when some 156,000 American, British
and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the
heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. This was also known as
______.
A. G.I. Joe
B. Battle of the Budge
C. D-Day
D. French Fries
22. He was one of the most-known American
military leaders of WWII; drove back North Korean invaders during the Korean
War; and developed strategy of "island-hopping".
A. General Douglas MacArthur
B. Admiral Chester Nimitz
C. Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King
D. General Dwight Eisenhower
23. He was the commander of American
naval forces in the Pacific. He took action to defend the island of Midway from
the Japanese. By the end of the Battle of Midway, the Japanese had lost four
aircraft carriers, a cruiser, and 250 planes.
A. General Douglas MacArthur
B. Admiral Chester Nimitz
C. Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King
D. General Dwight Eisenhower
24. It is first Japanese city to be
destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945.
A. Nagasaki
B. Iwo Jima
C. Hiroshima
D. Okinawa
25. The name of the bomb that was
dropped on August 9, 1945 on Nagasaki, Japan.
A. Fat Man
B. Little Boy
C. Big Bertha
D. Enola Gay
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