Rhonda Lynn Gamble

Name the three major countries that formed the alliance known as the Allied Powers.

• Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States
• Great Britain, Japan, United States
• Germany, France, United States
• Japan, Germany, Italy

Who was the leader of the United States during World War II?

• Mussolini

• Stalin

• Roosevelt (FDR)

• Hitler

Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II?

• Adolf Hitler

• Benito Mussolini

• Josef Stalin

• Winston Churchill

Who was the leader of Russia during World War II?

• Mussolini

• Stalin

• Roosevelt (FDR)

• Hitler

Who was the head of the Japanese military (who orders the attack on Pearl Harbor)?

• Hideki Tojo

• Emperor Hirohito

• Isoroku Yamamoto

• H. Mitsubishi

Leader of Germany during World War II.

• Mussolini
• Stalin
• Roosevelt
• Hitler

Which country did Hitler invade that triggered the all-out conflict in Europe?

• Spain
• Greece
• Poland
• Great Britain

Which of these is described below? *signed at the end of WWI *required Germany to pay Allies for damages caused by the war*required Germany to reduce the of its miliary

• the New Deal
• the United Nations
• the Treaty of Versailles
• the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

[p3] What event ended the war in the Pacific?

• the D-Day landing at Normandy

• the arrest of Mussolini

• the capture of Iwo Jima & Okinawa

• the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

[p5] Why did Stalin refuse to allow free democratic elections in Eastern Europe after WWII?

• Stalin wanted security for the Soviet Union, and thus wanted pro-Soviet governments in those countries.

• Stalin wanted to make those countries part of the Soviet Union as part of Communist expansion plans.

• Stalin blamed those countries for allowing Nazi Germany to invade the Soviet Union in 1941.