MWH Quiz #3 Name: __________________________________________

World War II

True or False (4 points each) Write TRUE or FALSE in response to the following statements. If a
statement is incorrect, you should write correct answer on the space provided below.

__________ 1.) Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1923, the same year Waitsill Sharp
became an ordained Unitarian minister and Franklin Delano Roosevelt became
the 32nd President of the United States.

Correction: ___________________________________________________

__________ 2.) After France fell in June of 1940, French General Charles de Gaulle set up a
government in exile in London, and he led the Free French military forces
against the Nazis until France was liberated in 1944.

Correction: ___________________________________________________

_________ 3.) Great Britain fell under Hitler’s control following the Battle of Britain when the
British Royal Air Force was unable to fight off the Nazi Luftwaffe.

Correction: ___________________________________________________

_________ 4.) A surprise Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval fleet in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor on
December 7, 1941 propelled the U.S into World War II by an act of Congress.

Correction: ___________________________________________________

_________ 5.) By the winter of 1942, Japan had taken control of more than 1 million square
miles of Asian land. It was not until the spring of 1942, after U.S. Lieutenant
Colonel Doolittle’s raid, that the Allies gained momentum. Most historians agree
that the tide was turned in the Pacific after the U.S. destroyed 332 Japanese
planes at the Battle of Midway in the summer of 1942.

Correction: ___________________________________________________

_________ 6.) U.S. General Douglas MacArthur’s “island-hop” strategy to move past Japanese
strongholds, and seize islands that were not well defended (and closer to Japan),
led to the Battle of Guadalcanal where after six months of fighting on land
and at sea, the U.S. claimed victory by February of 1943.

Correction: ___________________________________________________
True or False (4 points each)

_________ 7.) By the end of World War II, American women were not permitted to contribute
to the work force in factories that aided the war effort.

Correction: ___________________________________________________

_________ 8.) War time propaganda in the U.S. was free from controversy and stereotypes.

Correction: ___________________________________________________

_________ 9.) General Dwight D. Eisenhower led Operation Overlord off the Coast of
Normandy to liberate France from Nazi rule in the June 6, 1944 invasion –
famously known as D-Day.

Correction: ___________________________________________________

_________ 10.) Japan surrendered to the United States in World War II on August 6, 1945
immediately after an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

Correction: ___________________________________________________

Multiple Choice (5 points each)

_________ 11.) Kamikazes were:

a.) Russian fighter pilots best known for their impact in World War II
b.) Japanese suicide pilots best known for sinking Allied ships
c.) German tankers best known for rolling across Europe
d.) None of the above

_________ 12.) At the end of World War II:

a.) several European cities, including Paris, Rome, and Brussels remained largely
undamaged by the war.
b.) Several European cities, including London, Berlin, and Warsaw were in ruins.
c.) famine and disease spread throughout Europe.
d.) All of the above
Multiple Choice (5 points each)

_________ 13.) During 1945–46, the Nuremberg Trials addressed “crimes against humanity” by:
a.) forming a 23-nation International Military Tribunal
b.) trying hundreds of Nazi leaders (all of whom were found guilty)
c.) repaying Jewish families for their loss of property, rights, and lives
d.) All of the above

_________ 14.) U.S. occupation brought deep changes in Japan as evidenced by:
a.) a new Japanese constitution that denounced the Emperor as divine
b.) the creation of a two-house parliament called the Diet, and demilitarization
c.) Voting rights for all Japanese citizens, including women over the age of 20
d.) All of the above

_________ 15.) U.S. General Douglas MacArthur decided to:

a.) disband the Japanese military (demilitarization)
b.) begin the process of democratization by creating an elected government
c.) bring Japanese war criminals to trial, including former Premier Hideki Tojo
d.) All of the above

_________ 16.) The refugee crisis in Europe:

a.) began in Germany following Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) in 1938
b.) worsened in the early 1940s as Hitler and Nazis enacted genocide
c.) both of the above
d.) None of the above
Short Answer (20 points)
17.) Construct a timeline of significant World War II events:

November 9 & 10, 1938 –

March 15, 1939 –

September 1, 1939 –

May 10, 1940 –

June 22, 1940 –

July to October 1940 –

June 22, 1941 –

December 7, 1941 –

April 18, 1942 –

June 4 – 6, 1942 –

February 2, 1943 –

June 6, 1944 –

October 23 to 26, 1944 –

April 12, 1945 –

April 30, 1945 –

May 7, 1945 –

August 6, 1945 –

August 9, 1945 –

September 2, 1945 –
Short Answer (10 points)

18.) Explain the significance of Kristallnacht via the 5 W’s (Who; What; When; Where & Why).