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WWII SampleQuestions
Question | Answer |
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Which of the following is NOT an Allied Power? A. United States B. Italy C. Great Britain D. Soviet Union | B. Italy |
Which of the following is an axis power? A. Australia B. Great Britain C. Japan D. Africa | C. Japan |
Which of the following is NOT a dictator? A. Adolf Hitler B. Hideki Tojo C. Benito Mussolini D. Harry S. Truman | D. Harry S. Truman |
Which country started off as an Axis power but joined the Allied Powers once it was invaded? A. The Soviet Union B. Japan C. Germany D. Britain | A. The Soviet Union |
What did Germany, Italy, and Japan do that began WWII? | They wanted more land and power so they started to invade bordering countries |
How did the Navajo Code Talkers help the Allied Powers in WWII? | No one else knew the language so the Allied Powers used it to communicate without the Axis Powers knowing what they're saying. |
The United States tried to support isolationism at the beginning of the war. What is isolationism? | policy where the United States tried to stay neutral and out of the war |
Why did many Americans want isolationism? | they remembered the horrors of WWI and were still going through the Great Depression |
What are two ways that the government encouraged Americans at home to help in the war? | Possible Answers: drafted young men, asked factories to produce war goods, posted propaganda, encouraged victory gardens, encouraged scrap drives |
True or False: Nazis arrested Jews and sent them to concentration camps where most died. | True |
True of False: The United States sent Japanese Americans to relocation camps because they were scared of them after Pearl Harbor. | True |
True or False: At the start of the war, African American men were treated equal to white men in factories and the Air Force. | False |
What is one way that women helped the war-effort? | Possible Answers: served in the military, nurses, mechanics, radio operators / coding, worked in factories |
What is the name of the event that caused France and Britain to declare war on Germany? | the Invasion of Poland |
What is the name of the event that caused the United States to enter WWII? | the bombing of Pearl Harbor |
Who invented the atomic bomb and what was it's code name? | Albert Einstein and the Manhattan Project |