HIS AT-6 CIVILIANS AND WORLD WAR 2

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____	1.	What did they call the German air raids against London in 1940?
a.	V1 rocket raids	c.	blitz	
b.	missiles from hell	d.	blitzkrieg	

____	2.	About how many people died in WWII?
a.	6 million	c.	50 million	
b.	25 million	d.	100 million	

____	3.	What percentage of the people who died in WWII were civilians?
a.	25%	c.	50%	
b.	35%	d.	75%	

____	4.	Because there was little distinction between soldiers and civilians, World War II was called _____ war.
a.	total	c.	civil 	
b.	complete	d.	civilized	

____	5.	The German air force (Luftwaffe) helped General Franco take over control of this country in the 1930’s. What was the country that Franco took control of?
a.	Austria	c.	France	
b.	Spain	d.	Czechoslovakia	

____	6.	What country did Germany attack on September 1, 1939?
a.	Austria	c.	Denmark	
b.	Czechoslovakia	d.	Poland	

____	7.	What country signed a “non-aggression pact” with Germany and helped Germany attack Poland.
a.	Communist Soviet Union	c.	Norway	
b.	Spain	d.	Great Britain	

____	8.	Which goal did Germany and Japan share in World War II?
a.	Both wanted more living space for their country	c.	Both were dictatorships	
b.	Both believed their race was superior to all other races	d.	Germany and Japan shared all of these goals.	

____	9.	In what country were the Jewish ghetto’s located?
a.	France	c.	Russia	
b.	Austria	d.	Poland	

____	10.	What did they call the plan to eradicate the Jews by shipping them to concentration camps where they would be gassed and then cremated?
a.	Lebensraum	c.	The 4 year plan	
b.	The final solution	d.	The 3rd Reich plan	

____	11.	In what country were the six larges death camps located?
a.	Germany	c.	Russia	
b.	Poland	d.	Austria	

____	12.	In the 1930’s Jewish shops were destroyed and synagogues were defaced by the German Brown Shirts. This night of terror was called kristolnacht or _______?
a.	night of the broken glass	c.	night of the Nazi torches	
b.	hell night	d.	Deutschland uber alas!	

____	13.	A famous saying at the death camps was, “You come in by the door and go out by the _____”
a.	box car	c.	chimney	
b.	labor camps	d.	coffin	

____	14.	Where were many of the abled bodied Jews sent?
a.	to work in German factories or mines	c.	to Israel	
b.	back home	d.	to work as servants in German homes	

____	15.	In which war did the have, “civilized rules of conduct.”
a.	World War I	c.	Korean War	
b.	World War II	d.	Viet Nam	

____	16.	What was the name of the largest death camp?
a.	Eins Kamp	c.	Reichstag	
b.	Warsaw prison	d.	Auschwitz	

____	17.	What was the attitude of the Japanese about their own race?
a.	They were superior because they were Asian	c.	They were inferior to Americans	
b.	They, and all people of Asia, were brothers.	d.	They were superior to all other races	

____	18.	Who was the living God that most Japanese followed and obeyed in WWII?
a.	The Emperor Hirohito	c.	Admiral Yamamoto	
b.	Tojo	d.	Buddha	

____	19.	The Japanese conducted a holy war to unite all of _____ under the Emperor.
a.	the U.S.	c.	China and the U.S.	
b.	Asia	d.	Japan	

____	20.	How did the Americans push the Japanese back to Japan?
a.	Air raids on the Japanese homeland	c.	invasion of the Japanese homeland	
b.	Dropping the atom bomb	d.	one island at a time	

____	21.	Who decided that everyone in Japan should commit suicide rather than surrender?
a.	The Emperor	c.	The military rulers	
b.	The Japanese Nazi’s	d.	The civilian heads of government	

____	22.	What was the attitude of the Japanese solders while they were committing atrocities?
a.	They were ashamed	c.	They thought they were hero’s	
b.	They were angry at what they had done	d.	They felt sorry for their victims.	

____	23.	How long did the battle of Okinawa last?
a.	1 year	c.	4 months	
b.	6 months	d.	3 months	

____	24.	When the British and Americans were told to break the morale of the German people, that was a code word telling them to .....
a.	attack civilians	c.	stop Kamikaze attacks	
b.	attack ships at sea but not army on the ground	d.	be kind to civilians	

____	25.	Which country or countries bombed innocent German civilians in WWII?
a.	The U.S.	c.	Both the U.S. and England	
b.	England	d.	Neither the U.S. nor England	

____	26.	How many atomic bombs were dropped on Japan?
a.	1	c.	3	
b.	2	d.	none	

____	27.	Why did the Americans drop Atomic bombs on Japan
a.	Wanted to kill the Japanese Emperor	c.	U.S. was running out of conventional bombs	
b.	The U.S. Navy was in poor shape after the Kamikaze attacks.	d.	Would cost too many American lives to invade Japan	

____	28.	Who was put on trial at Nuremberg after the war?
a.	Japanese leaders	c.	Winston Churchill	
b.	Japanese military	d.	top Nazi’s	

____	29.	Who was the leader of the Japanese military at the end of the war who was put on trial by the Americans and then executed?
a.	Hirohito	c.	Yoshi Toshiba	
b.	Yamamoto	d.	Tojo	

____	30.	Who were the Axis powers in WWII?
a.	Germany, Japan, Italy	c.	U.S., Britain, Soviet Union	
b.	Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain	d.	Germany and the Soviet Union	

Matching

a.	bedraggled	k.	exploit	
b.	excruciating	l.	deity	
c.	parameter	m.	nondescript	
d.	excrement	n.	rampant	
e.	pseudo	o.	atrocities	
f.	confiscate	p.	recounts	
g.	converge	q.	incendiary	
h.	sporadic	r.	pulverize	
i.	annihilate	s.	barbarism	
j.	typhus	t.	sublime	

____	31.	The Germans and Japanese committed many ____ against the peoples they conquored

____	32.	Because there were no toilet facilities in the box cars that carried the Jews to the concentration camps, they were often filled with _____ by th end of the journey

____	33.	Death and desease was _____ in the concentration camps.

____	34.	The Jews sufferd _____ pain in the concentration camps.

____	35.	The Americans and British dropped _____ bombs on the German and Japanese civilians in WWII.

____	36.	German and Japanese claims of racial superiority were based on _____ science.

____	37.	The Nazi’s tried to _____ the Jews in Europe.

____	38.	By dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, President Truman wanted to  ____ the Japanese cities into rubble.

____	39.	In World War I the _____ followed by all parties was not to attack civilians. This was one of the, “Rules of War.”

____	40.	On the “night of the broken glass,” (kristolnacht), the Nazi’s tried to _____ property from the Jews.

____	41.	The Nazi’s tried to _____ the prejudice that many Europeans had against Jews for their own purposes.

____	42.	Before the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, Americans demonstrated only _____ interest in the events in Asia and Europe.

____	43.	The Japanese soldiers commited many acts of _____ in the “rape of Nanjing”

____	44.	The video, “America’s Time, Civilians in WWII,” _____ the suffering of civilians in WWII.

____	45.	The Japanese soldiers believed that their responsibility for atrocities in WWII was _____ .

____	46.	The Germans and the Soviet Union planned to _____ on the country of Poland on September 1, 1939. This was the start of WWII

____	47.	_____ was a desease that was rampant in the concentration camps.

____	48.	By 1945 the German and Japanese armies were defeated and _____ .

____	49.	The Japanese emporer was considered to be a _____ to the Japanese people. When he spoke, it was like God speaking.

____	50.	The Germans and Japanese had a _____ love of their leaders in WWII.

HIS AT-6 CIVILIANS AND WORLD WAR 2
Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

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