Battles Of WWII

Question 1

Rape of Nanjing

Answer 1

• 6 week rampage of a Chinese city

- estimated 300,000 deaths

Question 2

Pearl Harbor

Answer 2

• US was attacked by Japan to bring them into WWII

- Surprise attack, many casualties

Question 3

D-Day

Answer 3

Allied troops stormed Germany and the European continent

Question 4

Kristallnacht

Answer 4

A night where Jewish businesses, homes, and places of worship were vandalized heavily

Question 5

Battle of Iwo Jima

Answer 5

A strike on one of the Japanese islands near the mainland Japan. The US won the battle, and had a home base on an island near Japan

Question 6

Battle of Okinawa

Answer 6

• last island battle in WWII

- Japanese trying to protect its mainland

Question 7

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 7

• last ditch effort by Hitler to turn the tide of the war in his favor
• eventually Hitler’s troops were fought off, and it was the beginning of the end of the war

Question 8

Battle of Britain

Answer 8

• German and British air forces clashed

- ended when the German Air Force wasn’t able to sucessfully destroy britain’s will and make them surrender