World War II Review Worksheet
| # | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1 | World War II was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945 and involved many countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. |
| 2 | World War II began in Europe in 1939. |
| 3 | Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, is commonly seen as the start of World War II in Europe. |
| 4 | The three major Allied powers were the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. |
| 5 | The three major Axis powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan. |
| 6 | Appeasement was the policy of giving in to some of Hitler's demands in hopes of avoiding war. |
| 7 | Many people believed the Treaty of Versailles angered Germany, weakened its economy, and created resentment that Adolf Hitler later used to gain support. |
| 8 | Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Nazi Germany and the leader who drove Germany toward expansion and war. |
| 9 | The Battle of Britain was an air battle in 1940 in which Britain defended itself against German air attacks and prevented a German invasion. |
| 10 | The Battle of Stalingrad was important because it became a major turning point on the Eastern Front, and the Soviet victory marked the beginning of Germany's long retreat. |
| 11 | D-Day, the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, opened a major Western Front against Germany and helped push German forces back. |
| 12 | Operation Barbarossa was Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. |
| 13 | The United States entered World War II after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. |
| 14 | Pearl Harbor is located in Hawaii. |
| 15 | Island hopping was a strategy of capturing selected islands to move closer to Japan while bypassing some heavily defended areas. |
| 16 | Total war is a war in which a country uses all of its resources and requires major sacrifices from both soldiers and civilians. |
| 17 | Civilians faced rationing, bombings, war production, propaganda, and major changes in daily life to support the war effort. |
| 18 | The Holocaust was the Nazi genocide of six million Jews and the persecution and murder of other targeted groups during World War II. |
| 19 | Concentration camps were used to imprison, exploit, and kill people whom the Nazi regime considered enemies or undesirables. |
| 20 | The Manhattan Project was the secret U.S.-led program to develop atomic weapons during World War II. |
| 21 | They aimed to weaken Germany by forcing it to fight major battles in different directions and to speed up Germany's defeat. |
| 22 | Technology changed warfare through aircraft carriers, radar, improved tanks, submarines, codebreaking, and atomic weapons, making the war faster and deadlier. |
| 23 | Propaganda was used to build support for the war, encourage patriotism, strengthen morale, and spread hatred toward the enemy. |
| 24 | World War II is described as a global war because fighting took place in Europe, North Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Atlantic, involving many nations from around the world. |
| 25 | The Battle of Midway was a major turning point in the Pacific because the United States defeated Japan and weakened Japan's naval power. |
| 26 | The Soviet Union survived because of vast manpower, harsh geography, strong resistance, relocated industry, and Germany's overextended supply lines. |
| 27 | Women worked in factories, served in auxiliary military roles, joined nursing services, and took jobs left by men who were fighting. |
| 28 | Two major reasons were the overwhelming industrial and military strength of the Allies and Germany and Japan fighting a war they could not sustain on multiple fronts. |
| 29 | The Nuremberg Trials were court proceedings after World War II in which major Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
| 30 | World War II changed the world by causing massive destruction and loss of life, weakening European empires, increasing U.S. and Soviet power, and leading to the Cold War and new efforts at international cooperation. |