WWII Test
80 Points
Multiple Choice: (2 pts. each)
1. What impact did World War II have on the American economy?
a. permanently ended the Great Depression
b. caused the stock market crash of 1929
c. placed a huge war debt on the American people
d. burdened the nations farmers who grew too little
2. Pictured above are Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference in 1943. They
were the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom. During World War II, these men
were known as the "Big Three" because they led
a. the most powerful of the Allied countries.
b. the countries that suffered the most casualties during the war.
c. the only countries fighting against Germany.
d. countries had declared war on each other
3. Which of the following was a reason explaining why Hitler chose Austria as the first country to annex in 1938?
a. He was originally from Austria
b. Majority of people living in Austria were German
c. Most Austrians favored a union with Germany
d. All of the above
4. Which of the following battles marks the turning point of World War II in the Pacific Theater?
a. Midway
b. Iwo Jima
c. Okinawa
d. Pearl Harbor
, 5. The picture above is from the Munich Conference where Hitler, Mussolini, Edouard Daladier, and Neville
Chamberlain met to discuss Hitler’s annexation of the Sudetenland. During the conference the leaders agreed on
the strategy of giving into Hitler’s demands in order to prevent war. What is this strategy called?
a. Isolationism
b. Appeasement
c. Militarism
d. None of the above
6. _________________ refers to the mass execution or elimination of people (8-13 million) that threatened
Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian government in the Soviet Union.
a. Great Death
b. Holocaust
c. Russian Elimination
d. Great Purge
7. The Neutrality Acts passed by the United States as part of a policy of isolationism during the 1930s were, in part, a response to
a. imperial conquests by the USSR in South Africa.
b. spreading anxieties regarding nuclear warfare.
c. aggression of China against the Japanese.
d. growing conflicts in European and Asian countries
8. What was the significance of World War II's Normandy Invasion, commonly referred to as D-Day?
a. It marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.
b. It promptly pulled the United States out of World War II.
c. It marked the first use of the atomic bomb in a war.
d. It prompted a peace summit that ended World War II
80 Points
Multiple Choice: (2 pts. each)
1. What impact did World War II have on the American economy?
a. permanently ended the Great Depression
b. caused the stock market crash of 1929
c. placed a huge war debt on the American people
d. burdened the nations farmers who grew too little
2. Pictured above are Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference in 1943. They
were the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom. During World War II, these men
were known as the "Big Three" because they led
a. the most powerful of the Allied countries.
b. the countries that suffered the most casualties during the war.
c. the only countries fighting against Germany.
d. countries had declared war on each other
3. Which of the following was a reason explaining why Hitler chose Austria as the first country to annex in 1938?
a. He was originally from Austria
b. Majority of people living in Austria were German
c. Most Austrians favored a union with Germany
d. All of the above
4. Which of the following battles marks the turning point of World War II in the Pacific Theater?
a. Midway
b. Iwo Jima
c. Okinawa
d. Pearl Harbor
, 5. The picture above is from the Munich Conference where Hitler, Mussolini, Edouard Daladier, and Neville
Chamberlain met to discuss Hitler’s annexation of the Sudetenland. During the conference the leaders agreed on
the strategy of giving into Hitler’s demands in order to prevent war. What is this strategy called?
a. Isolationism
b. Appeasement
c. Militarism
d. None of the above
6. _________________ refers to the mass execution or elimination of people (8-13 million) that threatened
Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian government in the Soviet Union.
a. Great Death
b. Holocaust
c. Russian Elimination
d. Great Purge
7. The Neutrality Acts passed by the United States as part of a policy of isolationism during the 1930s were, in part, a response to
a. imperial conquests by the USSR in South Africa.
b. spreading anxieties regarding nuclear warfare.
c. aggression of China against the Japanese.
d. growing conflicts in European and Asian countries
8. What was the significance of World War II's Normandy Invasion, commonly referred to as D-Day?
a. It marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany.
b. It promptly pulled the United States out of World War II.
c. It marked the first use of the atomic bomb in a war.
d. It prompted a peace summit that ended World War II
