GRADE 5 - HISTORY CH 10

Question 1

Who is the prime minister of Great Britain who is known for his famous speeches?

Answer 1

Winston Churchill

Question 2

Who is the dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII?

Answer 2

Joseph Stalin

Question 3

Who is the dictator of Germany who demanded part of Czechoslovakia?

Answer 3

Adolf Hilter

Question 4

Who was the president when the military dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Answer 4

Harry Truman

Question 5

Who said this comment “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Answer 5

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 6

Who said this phrase: “Duty, honor, country; these three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”

Answer 6

Douglas MacArthur

Question 7

Who authorized the military to move the Japanese Americans to relocation camps?

Answer 7

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 8

What is the date of D-Day?

Answer 8

June 6, 1944

Question 9

What is the date of V-E Day?

Answer 9

May 8, 1945

Question 10

What is the date of the Pearl Harbor attack?

Answer 10

December 7, 1941

Question 11

What is the date of V-J Day?

Answer 11

September 2, 1945

Question 12

What are the names of the Big Three?

Answer 12

Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchhill,, Franklin Roosevelt

Question 13

Identify the four countries that Germany was divided between after WWII?

Answer 13

Great Britain, Soviet Union, France, and the United States

Question 14

Identify the two strategic islands the US needed to overtake in Japan in order to launch bombing raids?

Answer 14

Iwo Jima and Okinawa

Question 15

What happened because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?

Answer 15

Congress voted to go to war against the Axis Powers.

Question 16

What happened because of the weather during WWII?

Answer 16

Hitler’s lightning attack failed in the Soviet Union.

Question 17

What happened because the Allies and the Axis Powers wanted support for the war effort?

Answer 17

They used propaganda on war posters and in the news.

Question 18

What happened because the Allies needed a plan to defeat Nazi Germany?

Answer 18

The Big Three met in Iran.

Question 19

What happened because the Germans wanted to prevent goods from entering Great Britain?

Answer 19

They set up a blockade to keep people and supplies from going in and out.

Question 20

What happened because there were so many islands in the Pacific during WWII?

Answer 20

The United States seized only the islands that offered good air bases.

Question 21

Know on a geography map where the following Allies and Axis countries are located: Germany, Soviet Union, Great Britain, Italy, the United States, and Japan.

Answer 21

Germany, Soviet Union, Great Britain, Italy, the United States, and Japan

Question 22

What did Great Britain and France do before WWII because they did not want to start another war?

Answer 22

The leaders thought it would be best to give in to Hilter’s demands.

Question 23

What happened because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?

Answer 23

Congress voted to go to war against the Axis powers.