WWII

Question 1

Dictator?

Answer 1

A ruler that has absolute power.

Question 2

Blitzkrieg?

Answer 2

“Lightning War”- Fast moving warfare used by Germans vs. Poland and France.

Question 3

Totalitarian State?

Answer 3

A country where one party controls government + peopel.

Question 4

Facism?

Answer 4

Political system headed by a dictator. There is extreme nationalism, racism, and NO opposition.

Question 5

Appeasement?

Answer 5

Practice of giving in to aggression in order to afford war.

Question 6

Axis Powers

Answer 6

Germany
Japan
Italy

Question 7

Allied Powers

Answer 7

Britain
France
USSR
USA

Question 8

Operation Overlord? (When, what it was).

Answer 8

JUne, 1944. Allied invasionof Normandy, France.

Question 9

D-Day

Answer 9

June 5-6, 1944. Nickname for Operation overlord. Liberation of France.

Question 10

V-E Day when was it? What was it?

Answer 10

Victory in Europe Day
May 8, 1945
WW2 ended in Europe

Question 11

V-J Day when was it? What was it?

Answer 11

Victory in Japan Day

August 15, 1945. WWII ended in Japan.

Question 12

Rationing

Answer 12

Occured in France + Britain where a limited amount or portion of good + goods; limitation of use.

Question 13

Holocaust

Answer 13

Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler’s rule.

Question 14

Concentration Camps

Answer 14

Harsh conditions for POW’s, Jews, and other people deemed unfit by the Nazis.

Question 15

Internment Camps

Answer 15

Relocation of Japanese descendents in North America during WWII.

Question 16

Kamikaze

Answer 16

Japan fighter pilots loaded their planes with expolisves and flew into US ships.

Question 17

Manhatten Project?

Answer 17

Code name for Nuclear Atomic Bomb development.

Question 18

Adolf Hitler

Answer 18

Nazi dictator of Germany during WWII

Question 19

Benito Mussolini

Answer 19

Fascist dictator of Italy, conquered Ethiopia, helped Nazi Germany

Question 20

Joseph Stalin

Answer 20

Russian Communist leader

Question 21

Nagasaki

Answer 21

Site of the 2nd Atomic Bomb inJapan by USA, killed 40 000+ Japanese.
August 9, 1945

Question 22

Hiroshima

Answer 22

August 6, 1945

Site of the 1st Atomic Bomb. Killed 70 000+ Japanese.

Question 23

Battle of Britain

Answer 23

Aerial battle fought in the skies above Britain. British Royal Air Force + Canadian Royal Air Force successfully fought off the Germans.

Question 24

Hirohito

Answer 24

Japanese Emperor who was hungry for power during WWII.

Question 25

Jews

Answer 25

The religious group of people Hitler blamed for German’s economic down fall after WWII.

Question 26

Okinawa?

Answer 26

10 000 Japanese soldiers jumped off cliffs and the US troops arrived on the island.

Question 27

August 15, 1945?

Answer 27

Japan surrenders

Question 28

April 30, 1945?

Answer 28

Hitler commits suicide

Question 29

May 5, 1945?

Answer 29

Germany surrenders in Europe

Question 30

Why did the USA not want Japan to take over the Pacific?

Answer 30

USA wanted to trade with China

Question 31

Which battle in the Pacific was a turning point of America?

Answer 31

The Battle of Midway

Question 32

What battle was a turning point for Russia?

Answer 32

Stalingrad

Question 33

Munich Conference

Answer 33

Last major attempt to work with Germany before the outbreak of WWII

Question 34

Pearl Harbour

Answer 34

Japan bombed Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941

Question 35

Japanese Occupied USA territory?

Answer 35

Yes they did on some Islands in the Pacific

Question 36

Aunchluss

Answer 36

Union of Germany and Austria

Question 37

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 37

Invasion of Russian by Germans

Question 38

Nuremburg Laws

Answer 38

Laws the Nazis instituted that took people’s basic rights away