world war II pretest  

AMERICAN HISTORY PRETEST

WORLD WAR II

1.                    WHAT IS FASCISM?

2.                    WHAT DOES “IL DUCE” MEAN?

3.                    WHO WROTE MIEN KAMPF?

4.                    WHAT COUNTRIES MADE UP THE ALLIED FORCES?

5.                    WHAT COUNTRIES MADE UP THE AXIS POWERS?

6.                    WHAT DID THE TERM APPEASEMENT HAVE TO DO WITH WORLD WAR II?

7.                    WHAT STARTED WORLD WAR II?

8.                    DEFINE THE TERM BLITZKRIEG.

9.                    WHAT KEPT THE UNITED STATES OUT OF THE WAR?

10.                 WHAT WAS THE “LEND-LEASE ACT”?

11.                 WHY WERE SOLDIERS CALLED “GIs”?

12.                 WHO WERE THE “CODE TALKERS” AND WHAT DID THEY DO?

13.                 WHY DID THE UNITED STATES ENTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR?

14.                 WHO WAS THE LEADER OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE DURING WORLD WAR II?

15.                 WHO COMMANDED THE ALLIED FORCES IN EUROPE?

16.                 WHAT WAS THE BATTLE OF BRITIAN?

17.                 WHAT WAS THE EUROPEAN THEATRE?

18.                 WHAT WAS THE PACIFIC THEATRE?

19.                 WHAT GENERAL TRAINED HIS TANK TROOPS IN THE DESERTS OF ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA?

20.                 DEFINE THE NORMANDY INVASION?

21.                 WHAT WAS THE “BATTLE OF THE BULGE”

22.                 WHO WAS THE RUSSIAN LEADER DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR?

23.                 WHAT DID THE TERM “ISLAND HOPPING” REFER TO?

24.                 WHAT ENDED THE SECOND WORLD WAR?

25.                 WHO WERE THE BIG THREE AFTER THE WAR IN GERMANY?

26.                 WHAT WAS THE MARSHALL PLAN? 

27.                 WHO WAS “ROSIE THE RIVETER”?

28.             WHAT WAS THE “WAR POWERS ACT”?