World War II Unit Test

Honors World History

Matching
Match the correct term on the left with the correct definition on the right.

b. Said Japan could no longer make

_____ 1. Fascism war

_____ 2. Treaty of Versailles c. German tank force

_____ 3. Dictator of USSR d. Militant political movement,

_____ 4. Blitzkrieg obedience and loyalty to the leader

_____ 5. Article 9 is of extreme importance

_____ 6. Isolationism e. US foreign policy prior to joining

_____ 7. Afrika Korps WWII

_____ 8. Lebensraum ab. Night of the Broken Glass, the

_____ 9. Kristallnacht beginning of persecution of Jews.

_____ 10. Sitzkrieg ba. blamed WWI totally on Germany

bc. Living space, Hitlers plan to gain more

land for Germany

Bd. Nickname for WWII before Germany

attacked British and French troops

a. Germanys military strategy, means be. Stalin

lightning war

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

_____ 11. WWII began as soon as Hitler invaded

a. France
b. Austria
c. Czechoslovakia
d. Poland

_____ 12. Operation Barbarossa refers to Hitlers

a. Invasion of Poland
b. Invasion of France
c. Invasion of the USSR
d. Invasion of Austria

_____ 13. The Axis Powers included

a. Italy, France, Germany
b. Great Britain, United States, USSR
c. Italy, Germany, USSR
d. Germany, Japan, Italy

_____ 14. D-Day refers to the ______________________ invasion of

__________________________.
a. American, Normandy
b. German, Normandy
c. American, Germany
d. Japanese, Guam

_____ 15. The Bataan Death March was

a. The march of many American prisoners of war
b. The march of many Japanese prisoners of war
c. The march of many German prisoners of war
d. The march of many Japanese soldiers

_____ 16. The final solution was

a. Hitlers plan to attack the USSR
b. Hitlers plan to exterminate subhumans in Europe
c. Hitlers plan to gain more land for Germany
d. Hitlers plan to invade Poland

_____ 17. Which best defines transitional justice?
a. The use of criminal prosecutions after a violation of human rights
b. The use of war to fix international issues
c. The use of bombs during wartime
d. Occupation of a country in a post-war society

_____ 18. Who was in charge of US occupation of Japan after WWII?

a. General Eisenhower
b. General MacArthur
c. President Truman
d. General Rommel

_____ 19. What was the significance of the Battle of Britain?

a. It ruined British cities
b. It allowed Germany to annex Britain
c. It showed the Allies that they could beat Hitler
d. It showed the Allies the German military strategy known as blitzkrieg

_____ 20. Who was NOT a fascist dictator in Europe during WWII?
a. Hitler
b. Franco
c. Mussolini
d. Stalin

True or False
Determine whether the statement is True (A) or False (B).

_____ 21. The Holocaust only targeted the Jews.

_____ 22. The Japanese saw surrender as dishonorable.
_____ 23. A total of 40 million people died during WWII.
_____ 24. The US treated Japanese-Americans kindly after the attack at Pearl Harbor.
_____ 25. Fascism is the same as Communism.
_____ 26. Hitler and Stalin signed a pact to divide up Poland.
_____ 27. WWII was called the phony war because Great Britain waited so long to declare
war.
_____ 28. The Battle of Stalingrad left the city almost fully destroyed.
_____ 29. After President Roosevelt died, Dwight D. Eisenhower took power.
_____ 30. The US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
 WWII Project Rubric
Students will work with a group to create Google Slides, Guided Notes, and Kahoot Questions
based on a write up of events that occurred during WWII. Groups will present these slides and
hand out guided notes.

Category 1 (9 points) 2 (12 points) 3 (14 points) 4 (16 points)

Group Students do not Students Students Students

Collaboration work together collaborate, but collaborate well collaborate very
well, only certain certain students for the most part. well, each group
people work on carry the most of Class time is member carries
the project. the work load. mostly used an equal amount
Students do not Students joke and wisely, there is of the work load.
use class time carry on side little joking
wisely. conversations around/side
during most of the conversations.
class.

Understanding of Students do not Students do not Students have a Students have an

Information understand the have full fairly good excellent
information, while understanding of understanding of understanding of
presenting they the information. the information. the information.
are reading off the The information The slides are The slides are
slide. The on the slides is mostly summaries of the
information on the mostly the same summarizations of information in the
slides is the same as the information the information in write-up.
as the information on the write-up. the write-up.
on the write-up.

Requirements Met Students have Students have a Students are Students have all
(Google Slides, one or fewer of few of the missing one of the of the
Guided Notes, the requirements requirements. requirements. requirements
Kahoot of the project. completed.
Questions)

Presentation Skills Students do not Students speak Students speak Students speak
speak clearly or quietly and somewhat clearly clearly and are
loudly, students unclearly most of most of the time. organized.
are not organized the time. Students Students are fairly Information is
and do not are somewhat organized and presented well.
present the organized. present the
information well. information well
for the most part.

Presentation Presentation is Presentation is Presentation is Presentation is

not well fairly fairly well well organized
organized. disorganized. organized.

Guided Notes Guided notes are Guided notes are Guided notes are Guided notes are
 not well fairly fairly well well organized.
organized. disorganized. organized.
Cold War Guided Notes & Questions
China, Korea, & Vietnam, Honors World History

China
Civil war between the ___________________________________________________________________
Communists had a stronghold in NW China under __________________________________________
Mobilized peasants and guerilla fighters against the ______________________________ in the
NE
By 1945: ______________________________ controlled much of northern China
Nationalists were under ______________________________
US sent the nationalists $1.5 million to resist the ______________________________
Paused to fight the Japanese then began again after they pushed the Japanese out of China

Chinese Civil War

The renewed war lasted from ______________________________

Nationalists did not win popular support
Spring 1949: Chinas major cities dell to Red-forces
October, 1949: ______________________________ gains control of China
_____________________________________________________________________________
Nationalists retreat to ______________________________
1950: China & ______________________________ signed a treaty of friendship
US helped set up a Nationalist government in Taiwan: ___________________________________________
US tried to stop the spread of Communism
When Soviets set up a Communist government in the north of Korea, the US
supported a separate state in the ______________________________
Chinese troops expanded
China took control of ______________________________
Tibetans were promised autonomy, they followed the ______________________________
they did not get autonomy, the Dalai Lama fled to ______________________________
1959: India welcomed Tibetan refugees after a failed revolt in Tibet
1962: India and China clashed over ___________________________________________
1953: Mao Zedong set up five-year plans
Set high production goals
1957: Chinas output had increased dramatically
1958: Mao Zedong launched__________________________________________________________
Collective farming
Did not work, made things worse
Ended in 1961 after crop failure and famines killed about
 ___________________________________________________________

Chinas Cultural Revolution

Competition with ______________________________

Split between the two
Mao Zedong reduced his role in government
1966: Mao Zedong urged Chinas young people to ______________________________
High schoolers and college students left classrooms to join the ______________________________
Led the Cultural Revolution
Shut down schools
Targeted anyone who _______________________________________________________
Thousands were executed or imprisoned
1968: Mao Zedong said that the Cultural Rev. had to stop

Korea

When WWII ended, Korea was divided North of the ______________________________

North: ____________________________________
South: ______________________________________
1949: both the US and USSR had withdrawn most of their troops from Korea
USSR tried to help North Korea take over the peninsula
June 25, 1950: N. Koreans launched a surprise attack on ______________________________
The ______________________________ could not veto the UNs plan to stop this invasion
________________________________________________________________ led this invasion force
September 1950: North Koreans controlled the entire Korean peninsula
MacArthur launched surprise attack
By January 1951: the Chinese had pushed the UN and S. Korean troops out of N. Korea
Captured capital of S. Korea
MacArthur called for a war against ______________________________
Truman said no
MacArthur tried to go over Trumans head, Truman had him
______________________________
By 1952: UN troops had regained control of South Korea
July 1953: UN forces and N. Korea signed a ______________________________ agreement
Border was set near the ______________________________
______________________________ soldiers and civilians died
Korea remained divided
______________________________ exists between the countries
North Korea: Kim Il Sung is Communist dictator
Established collective farms
Developed industry
 Built up the military
Died in 1994, his son Kim Jong Il took over
N. Korea developed nuclear weapons & had economic problems
S. Korea prospered
Developed industry and foreign trade
One of the highest ________________________________________________ in the world

Vietnam War

1. What did Ho Chi Minh want?

2. What was the domino theory?

3. When did US involvement in Vietnam pick up?

4. What was the purpose of the Geneva Accords?

5. Who did the US begin supporting in Vietnam and why?

6. What was the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?

7. Vietnamese forces launched the _____________________________________________ against the US.

8. Where did fighting in Vietnam take place?
9. What was the significance of the television during this war?

10. What was the Khmer Rouge?

11. What was the Paris Peace Agreement?

12. Did the US win or lose the Vietnam War?