WW2 Test Questions
In which country did a totalitarian government take power in the 20s and 30s? - correct answer ✔✔Italy,
Germany, Spain, Japan, USSR(can be any one of these)
Benito Mussolini was the leader of what country? - correct answer ✔✔Italy
Adolf Hitler was to Germany as he was to the Soviet Union(USSR). - correct answer ✔✔Joseph Stalin
Britain and France gave in to Hitler's demands in order to keep the peace at this conference in 1938 -
correct answer ✔✔Munich Conference
The invasion of which country on September 1, 1939 prompted the French and British to declare war on
Germany? - correct answer ✔✔Poland
Soon after the outbreak of the war in Europe, FDR proclaimed that the United States would do what? -
correct answer ✔✔remain neutral
This agreement, reached before American entry into the war, outlined the wartime goals of the United
States and Great Britain. - correct answer ✔✔Atlantic Charter
The rapid speed of German military victories in the early part of World War 2 was referred to as this. -
correct answer ✔✔Blitzkrieg
This required all males in the United States ages 21 to 36 register for military service. - correct answer
✔✔Selective Service Act of 1940
The German bombing of Great Britain was referred to as this. - correct answer ✔✔Battle of Britain
World War 2 helped bring the swift ending of what? - correct answer ✔✔The Great Depression
, During World War 2, to regulate distribution of food and other consumer goods, the United States
government did what? - correct answer ✔✔issued ration books
How did World War 2 change women's clothing? - correct answer ✔✔Many women began wearing
pants because dresses were impractical for factories
To control inflation during WW2 the U.S. government created this agency? - correct answer ✔✔Office of
Price Administration (OPA)
This was an effort to defeat the Axis Powers and win more civil rights for blacks in the United States. -
correct answer ✔✔"Double V" campaign
What were the three major theaters of World War 2? - correct answer ✔✔North Africa, Pacific, Europe
In what part of the world were the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, and the Guadalcanal fought? -
correct answer ✔✔Pacific
What was the largest naval battle in history and resulted in the destruction of most of the Japanese
fleet? - correct answer ✔✔Leyte Gulf
While being forced to leave the Philippines, he said "I shall return" - correct answer ✔✔Douglas
MacArthur
In waging war against Japan, the United States relied mainly on the strategy of what? - correct answer
✔✔island hopping
as a result of the battle of bulge - correct answer ✔✔Germans were able to slow...
Allies(who?) (diagram) - correct answer ✔✔Soviet Union
Atlantic Charter(short answer) - correct answer ✔✔agreement before US entery into war
In which country did a totalitarian government take power in the 20s and 30s? - correct answer ✔✔Italy,
Germany, Spain, Japan, USSR(can be any one of these)
Benito Mussolini was the leader of what country? - correct answer ✔✔Italy
Adolf Hitler was to Germany as he was to the Soviet Union(USSR). - correct answer ✔✔Joseph Stalin
Britain and France gave in to Hitler's demands in order to keep the peace at this conference in 1938 -
correct answer ✔✔Munich Conference
The invasion of which country on September 1, 1939 prompted the French and British to declare war on
Germany? - correct answer ✔✔Poland
Soon after the outbreak of the war in Europe, FDR proclaimed that the United States would do what? -
correct answer ✔✔remain neutral
This agreement, reached before American entry into the war, outlined the wartime goals of the United
States and Great Britain. - correct answer ✔✔Atlantic Charter
The rapid speed of German military victories in the early part of World War 2 was referred to as this. -
correct answer ✔✔Blitzkrieg
This required all males in the United States ages 21 to 36 register for military service. - correct answer
✔✔Selective Service Act of 1940
The German bombing of Great Britain was referred to as this. - correct answer ✔✔Battle of Britain
World War 2 helped bring the swift ending of what? - correct answer ✔✔The Great Depression
, During World War 2, to regulate distribution of food and other consumer goods, the United States
government did what? - correct answer ✔✔issued ration books
How did World War 2 change women's clothing? - correct answer ✔✔Many women began wearing
pants because dresses were impractical for factories
To control inflation during WW2 the U.S. government created this agency? - correct answer ✔✔Office of
Price Administration (OPA)
This was an effort to defeat the Axis Powers and win more civil rights for blacks in the United States. -
correct answer ✔✔"Double V" campaign
What were the three major theaters of World War 2? - correct answer ✔✔North Africa, Pacific, Europe
In what part of the world were the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway, and the Guadalcanal fought? -
correct answer ✔✔Pacific
What was the largest naval battle in history and resulted in the destruction of most of the Japanese
fleet? - correct answer ✔✔Leyte Gulf
While being forced to leave the Philippines, he said "I shall return" - correct answer ✔✔Douglas
MacArthur
In waging war against Japan, the United States relied mainly on the strategy of what? - correct answer
✔✔island hopping
as a result of the battle of bulge - correct answer ✔✔Germans were able to slow...
Allies(who?) (diagram) - correct answer ✔✔Soviet Union
Atlantic Charter(short answer) - correct answer ✔✔agreement before US entery into war
