World War 2 Quiz

What effect did the Treaty of Versailles have on the start of World War II?

• it rewarded the Italians with additional land and resources
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  it allowed the Russians to receive financial aid and build their army.
• it led to an aggressive military dictatorship in France
  
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  it punished Germany by making them pay reparations and led the Germans to seek revenge

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What political term does the political cartoon above describe?

• Assimilation 
• Appeasement 
• Blitzkrieg
• Blitzkrieg

Operation Overload is most commonly known as what?

• The Ambush 
• The Battle of the Bulge
• The Landing in Europe 
  
• D-Day 

“We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the street, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!”—Winston Churchill, June 4, 1940  
Read the quote from Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill’s words inspired people during the…..

• Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Battle of the Atlantic 
  
• Battle of Guadalcanal 
• Battle of Britain

What event led the United States to become invovled in World War 2 ?

• The Discovery of Auschwitz
• The Battle of Britain
• The Sinking of the Lusitania
• The Attack on Pearl Harbor
  

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General Charles de Gaulle went to Great Britain and told Frenchmen…..

• to give up when the Germans came
• to join the German Army.
• to continue fighting against the Germans.
• to escape to Great Britain
  

This was a new type of warfare that the Germans used to run through France and Poland in the early parts of WWII. It is also known as Lightning War.

• Hitler bombing
• Blitzkrieg
• Ran-sacking
• Nuclear Warfare
  

Britain and France declared war in response to what event?

• German invasion of Poland
• Soviet invasion of Finland
• German invasion of Czechoslovakia
  
• Italian Invasion of Ethiopia

This is what the atomic bomb program came to be called:

• Office of Scientific Research and Development
  
• War Production Board
• War Production Board
• Manhattan Project

Where were atomic bombs dropped?

• Leyte Island and Midway
  
• Okinawa and Iwo Jima
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Okinawa and Iwo Jima