.png){kind=logo}
PDF Download
FREE HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT WORLD WAR II
EXAM QUESTIONS
Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation
This Exam contains:
-Guarantee passing score -26 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation
Question 1: Atlantic Charter
Answer:
- Roosevelt met with Churchill off of Newfoundland. Incorporated Roosevelt's Four Freedoms.
Question 2: Yalta
Answer:
February 1945. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin met about postwar political subdivisions. Many criticized Roosevelt for being too favorable towards Stalin.
Question 3: Planning of Allied Invasion
Answer:
January 1943 Churchill and Roosevelt met at Casablanca to plan future of war.
Question 4: Churchill
Answer:
Replaced British Prime Minister Chamberlain. Had long warned of Germany's intentions.
Question 5: Operation Overlord
Answer:
Launched by Allied forces June 6, 1944. Invasion of France from England. Largest amphibious operation ever undertaken. By the end of 1944 France had been recaptured and Allied forces were at German border.
Question 6: Operation Barbarosa
Answer:
Invasion of Russia with 3 million Axis troops. Initially sucessful. Entered suburbs of Moscow November
- Long supply lines, winter and Russian counterattack drove Axis forces away from Moscow winter
of 41-42.
Question 7: Dunkirk
Answer:
400,000 British and French troops trapped but managed to escape without their equipment.
Question 8: Battle of the Atlantic
Answer:
German U-boats won in early years of war. Adequate supplies could not reach England and Europe.Improved ships, planes and sonar reversed this trend and by 1943 the Atlantic was an unsafe place for German submarines.
Question 9: 1940 US war position
Answer:
FDR said he was neutral and was re-elected.
Question 10: Roosevelt's Four Freedoms
Answer:
Freedom of Speech an Expression, Religion, Want, Fear
Question 11: Potsdam
Answer:
July 1945. Stalin and Churchill met with newly inaugurated President Truman. Churchill defeated for Prime Minister.
Question 12: Free French movement
Answer:
Led by Charles DeGaulle in London. Few Frenchmen joined movement.
Question 13: Axis Powers
Answer:
German, Japan, Italy
Question 14: France in WWII
Answer:
Paris fell in June 1940. France surrendered.
Question 15: German surrender
Answer:
Hitler committed suicide in Bunker. German army surrendered.
Question 16: WWII begins
Answer:
Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invades Poland. England and France declare war on Germany.
Question 17: Battle of Britain
Answer:
Germany tried to conquer Britain from the air. Tactic was unsuccessful. Germans considered, then abandoned plan to invade Britain.
Question 18: Pearl Harbor
Answer:
Japanese attacked December 7, 1941
Question 19: Allies
Answer:
England, France, US
Question 20: North Africa (WWII)
Answer:
Italians and Afrika Corps under German General Rommel controlled North Africa. Combined British and American forces launched a cmbined offensive that trapped Axis forces and led to their surrender in 1943.
Question 21: Lend-lease act
Answer:
1941- Allowed US president to sell, lend or transfer arms to countries vital to American defense.
Question 22: First German Offensive
Answer:
against Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Attacked Denmark and Norway. By-passed fortified Maginot line armament by attacking through Luxembourg.
Question 23: Second Russian attack
Answer:
Attacked and were stopped in the streets of Stalingrad. Hitler forbade retreat. German forces surrounded and decimated. German forces surrendered January 1943. Russians moved to the offensive.
Question 24: Atomic Bomb
Answer:
Dropped on and obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrendered on the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay under leadership of General Douglas MacArthur.
Question 25: Vichey government
Answer:
French. Followed policy of collaboration.
Question 26: Early WWII Soviet involvement
Answer:
Soviets on the sidelines. Occupied Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, foced concessions from Finland.
.png)