Deck 26: The World at War Part II

Question 1

The "Pact of Steel" was between Germany and __________.

Answer 1

Italy

Question 2

Germany signed a nonaggression pact with _________ in 1939.

Answer 2

Russia

Question 3

Which country remembers World War II as the "War of Resistance?"

A) Germany
B) Japan
C) Britain
D) Italy

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Operation Barbarossa was the German invasion of

A) Portugal.
B) France.
C) England.
D) Russia.

Question 5

D-Day was on June 6,

A) 1943.
B) 1944.
C) 1945.
D) 1942.

Question 6

Which country staged a fake terrorist attack in Manchuria in 1931?

A) China
B) Russia
C) Japan
D) Korea

Question 7

The Battle of Midway occurred in

A) 1941.
B) 1942.
C) 1943.
D) 1944.

Question 8

The war in the Pacific ended when the Americans decided to drop atomic bombs on _______ and _______.

Question 9

According to Nazi ideology, a woman's role in society was _______

A) to work alongside men for the glory of the Fatherland
B) outside the home, but subordinate to men.
C) to produce more Aryan children.
D) to rule the world

Question 10

The plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe was called the

A) First Solution.
B) Final Solution.
C) Third Solution.
D) Only Solution.

Question 11

Trials of Nazi war criminals were held at

A) Munich.
B) Nuremberg.
C) Dresden.
D) Paris.

Question 12

Six million Jews died in the Holocaust.

Question 13

Trials of Japanese war criminals were held in ________.

Question 14

Franklin Delano Roosevelt drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Question 15

Robert Oppenheimer directed the ____________ Project.

Question 16

The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed what percentage of the population?

A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 35%
D) 50%

Question 17

The Islamic counterpoint to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is named after the city of ________.

A) Cairo
B) Damascus
C) Istanbul
D) Baghdad

Question 18

Iran was neutral during the WWII.

Question 19

The British and Germans fought the battle of El Alamein in _______.

A) Palestine
B) Mesopotamia
C) North Africa
D) Iran

Question 20

Which of the following does not describe the Ba'ath Party?

A) secular
B) Islamist
C) socialist
D) pan-Arab