Part 1
alliance
What holiday is celebrated on Nov. 11th each year to honor those who have served in our armed forces?
Veterans Day
Which German city was divided by the "Wall of Shame" after WWII?
Berlin
Hitler broke his alliance with who?
a. the U.S
b. Germany
c. the Soviet Union
d. Japan
c. Soviet Union
Who was President during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
Who was the first President to give his inaugural address over the radio?
Calvin Coolidge
Which organization was set up after WWII to help nations settle their problems?
United Nations
During WWII, Germany, Italy, and Japan were known as?
a. Central Powers
b. Axis Powers
c. Allied Powers
b. Axis Powers
Germany
What decade in America was a prosperous decade? (Hint: Roaring 20s)
1920s
By 1940, one of the countries in Europe unoccupied by the Nazis, which one was it?
a. France
b. Canada
c. Great Britain
D. Belgium
C. Great Britain
What event caused Japan to surrender?
a. bombing of Pearl Harbor
b. bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
c. death of their emperor
d. defeat of the Japanese army in China
b. bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
What was the English passenger liner that as torpedoed near the beginning of WWI?
Lusitania
Who was the communist dictator of the Soviet Union, and one of the cruelest dictators the world has ever known?
Joseph Stalin
Which event caused WWII to begin?
bombing of Pearl Harbor
What happened on V-E Day?
a. 1st atomic bomb dropped
b. Germany surrendered to the Allies
c. Allies surrendered to the Axis powers
d. The largest battle of WWII was fought.
b. Germany surrendered to the Allies
Germany sent the Zimmermann note to who? They asked them for help in WWI?
Mexico
Who was President during WWII?
Franklin Roosevelt
Which country is known as "the great arsenal of democracy"?
a. Great Britain
b. Canada
c. Australia
d. U.S
d. U.S
The United States joined WWII on whose side?
a. Allied
b. Axis
c. Neutral
d. Central
a. Allied powers