World War Two Test

Question 1

Resistance

Answer 1

Movement in France that opposed German occupation during World War 2

Question 2

Axis Powers

Answer 2

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 3

Allies

Answer 3

U.S, Britain and France

Question 4

Nazism

Answer 4

A form of fascism shaped by Adolf Hitlers fanatical ideas about German nationalism and facial superiority

Question 5

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because

Answer 5

Of The inevitable war between the US and Japan and the stop of trading resources with Japan.

Question 6

Fascism

Answer 6

Political philosophy that emphasizes the nation or ethnic group, and supreme authority of the leader

Question 7

Battle that resulted into massive losses to Germany and turning point of (East) Russia.

Answer 7

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 10

What was the Secret Program that built the atomic bomb called

Answer 10

Manhattan project

Question 11

Allies stopped the Japanese from advancing for the first time in the

Answer 11

Battle Of Midway

Question 13

The name given to te German Airforce

Answer 13

Luftwaffle

Question 15

The commander in charge of D-Day

Answer 15

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 16

Purge

Answer 16

Process of removing enemies and undesirable people from power

Question 18

Reason why the island of Iwo Jima was critical to the U.S

Answer 18

U.S planes could release bombers from there

Question 19

The Japanese were never able to decipher the Navajo code in the Pacific because

Answer 19

The Navajo code was not written

Question 20

Agreement between Germany and Russia

Answer 20

Nazi aggression Pact

Question 21

American tribe that participated in the war

Answer 21

Navajo

Question 23

A major function of the office of War Information was

Answer 23

To promote strong public support of war

Question 24

Hitler signed non-aggression pact with whom?

Answer 24

Joseph Stalin

Question 25

Not an Allied Power

Answer 25

Spain

Question 26

British leader who supported appeasement and promised “peace for our time”

Answer 26

Neville Chamberlain

Question 27

The code name given to the invasion of Normandy/D-Day

Answer 27

Operation Overlord

Question 28

Famous “Battle of Britain” fought by

Answer 28

Planes

Question 29

A victory garden is a…

Answer 29

Way to help the Homefront

Question 30

Characterize the Doolittle war

Answer 30

A minimal military success but a big morale booster

Question 31

Allied commander in Europe, who became president in the U.S

Answer 31

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 32

The Selective Service was known as?

Answer 32

The Draft

Question 33

What did Selective Service do?

Answer 33

Choose males that were 21-36 years old to participate in the war

Question 34

The Four Freedoms that FDR spoke of when creating the Selective Service

Answer 34

Freedom of speech & expression
Every person to worship God in their own way
Freedom from want & need
Freedom from fear

Question 35

Number of Americans that served in the military during WW2

Answer 35

25,000

Question 36

How many women served in the military during WW2

Answer 36

350,000

Question 37

How did the Navajos help in the military?

Answer 37

Created/spoke in code that the enemy couldn’t break

Question 38

Main duty of the War Production Board

Answer 38

Responsive to make war weapons

Question 39

When was War Production formed

Answer 39

1942

Question 40

Compare American Production to Axis Nation’a in 1944

Answer 40

American product. Was 2x as big than the axis nations

Question 41

Unemployment rate dropped to

Answer 41

1%

Question 42

Impact woman had on the war effort

Answer 42

6 million women helped make war weapons

Question 43

How much did federal spending increase during the war?

Answer 43

$95 billion

Question 44

Total money the government spent for the war

Answer 44

$321 billion

Question 45

Money the government raised selling war bonds

Answer 45

$186 billion

Question 46

The national dept during the war was

Answer 46

$215 billion

Question 47

The goods that were unavailable to purchase during the war

Answer 47

Nylon, metal and rubber

Question 48

Why were metal, rubber and nylon unavailable?

Answer 48

They were used to make parachutes, guns and tires for war effort

Question 49

The OPA stands for?

Answer 49

Office of Prise Administration

Question 50

Two main duties of the OPA

Answer 50

Control inflation in the U.S and rationing to conserve goods for war

Question 51

Three ways Americans contributed to the war in their daily lives

Answer 51

Conserved goods, planted victory gardens and recycled

Question 52

Battle of the Bulge was..

Answer 52

Germany’s last attempt to defeat the allies

Question 53

Collaboration

Answer 53

Close operation

Question 54

Not a cause of WW2

Answer 54

Isolationism

Question 57

Totalitarian

Answer 57

A government that has total control over the nation and citizen’s lives

Question 58

Blitzkreig

Answer 58

A warfare emphasizing rapid movements, used by German soldiers

Question 59

Appeasement

Answer 59

Policy that give a competitors demands in order to preserve piece

Question 62

Holocaust

Answer 62

Nazi Germany’s attempt to murder all European Jews