Road to WW2 vocab

Question 1

Adolf Hitlers mistress whom he got married then she unalived herself

Answer 1

Eva Braun

Question 2

Prime minister of Great Britain

Answer 2

Winston Churchill

Question 3

received the medal of honor for his raid over tokyo with 80 volunteers

Answer 3

James Doolittle

Question 4

Commander of the European of theater

Answer 4

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 5

French gov in exile

Answer 5

Charles de Gaulle

Question 6

Head of the SS (Black Shirts)

Answer 6

Heinrich Himmler

Question 7

Japanese military leader

Answer 7

Hideki Tojo

Question 8

Japanese Emperor

Answer 8

Hirohito

Question 9

US commander of the pacific theater

Answer 9

Douglas MacArthur

Question 10

chief scientist of the atomic bomb and the Manhattan project

Answer 10

Robert Oppenheimer

Question 11

German general Desert Fox

Answer 11

Erwin Rommel

Question 12

President of the US during WW2

Answer 12

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 13

Dictator of the soviet union

Answer 13

Joseph Stalin

Question 14

American aircraft pilot/ flew the Enola gay

Answer 14

Paul Tibbets Jr.

Question 15

President after Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 15

Harry S. Truman

Question 16

Nazi leader and dictator of Germany

Answer 16

Adolf Hitler

Question 17

German protestant pastor who gave his life

Answer 17

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Question 18

Dutch Christian who hid Jew

Answer 18

Corrie Ten Boom

Question 19

Jewish girl who wrote a diary

Answer 19

Anne Frank

Question 20

Admiral of the japanese navy

Answer 20

Isoruku Yamamoto

Question 21

Most famous prison death camp

Answer 21

Auschwits

Question 22

London attacked for 57 consecutive Day/Nights

Answer 22

Blitz

Question 23

German style of warfare

Answer 23

Blitzkrieg

Question 24

japanese warriors fight to the death or commit suicide- Never surrender

Answer 24

Bushito

Question 25

group of ships sailing together for protection

Answer 25

Convoy

Question 26

Amphibious operation that miraculously rescued & the british/ french armies

Answer 26

Dunkirk

Question 27

(B-29 Bomber) plane that dropped the atomic “little boy” bomb on hiroshima

Answer 27

Enola Gay

Question 28

Mobile death squads - dug trenches and were machined gunned to death

Answer 28

Eizengruppen

Question 29

Japanese city the was destroyed by the atomic bomb

Answer 29

Hiroshima

Question 30

The systematic mass slaughter of the jews and other

Answer 30

Holocaust

Question 31

HJ 13-18 year olds/ all were brainwashed with the nazi’s propaganda in school

Answer 31

Hitler youth

Question 32

purpose was to get close enough to launch bombing attacks on japan

Answer 32

Island Hopping

Question 33

“Night of the broken glass” A program (organized massacre) against the german jewish community in germany

Answer 33

Kristallnacht

Question 34

Japanese suicide planes used in desperation

Answer 34

Kamikaze

Question 35

breeding program between Aryan woman and ss officers/ goal was to create “racially pure” people

Answer 35

Lebensraum

Question 36

The USA could lend or lease arms or other supplies to any country

Answer 36

Land-Lease Program

Question 37

City with major anti Jewish laws in Germany

Answer 37

Nuremburg

Question 38

secret atomic bomb program

Answer 38

Manhattan Project

Question 39

Japanese americans

Answer 39

Nisei

Question 40

“code talkers”- secret US code

Answer 40

Navaho

Question 41

US naval battle base in the pacific (hawaii)

Answer 41

Pearl Harbor

Question 42

turning tide of the battle of britain

Answer 42

Radar

Question 43

“Lifeline” of Great Britain between USA and great Britain/ longest continuous battle of WW2

Answer 43

Battle of Atlantic

Question 44

German kids who were into jazz music

Answer 44

Swing Kids

Question 45

Nazi empire

Answer 45

Third Reich

Question 46

the first German attack to take great Britain but Adolf Hitler lost

Answer 46

Battle of Britain

Question 47

Dec. 1944 “Great surprise” Hitler lost the offensive of the war. Bought an end to the war in Europe sooner!

Answer 47

The Bulge

Question 48

Deliverance day/ Largest amphibious attack in history

Answer 48

D-Day

Question 49

key allied victory in africa

Answer 49

El Alamein

Question 50

6 month bloody battle to control airfield and the first major island taken for the japs

Answer 50

Guadalcanal

Question 51

USA takes the first of the Japanese home islands/ 5 men raise the US flag on mt. suribachi

Answer 51

Iwo Jima

Question 52

Japanese island are destroyed and the Philippine islands are liberated

Answer 52

Leyte Gulf

Question 53

US defeats the Japanese and stops their planned invasion of Hawaii/ west coast of US

Answer 53

Midway

Question 54

Fought for control over the Russian oil fields

Answer 54

Stalingrad

Question 55

the country japan first targeted

Answer 55

China

Question 56

Jewish homeland

Answer 56

Israel

Question 57

the country that initiated WWII / The aggressors

Answer 57

Germany

Question 58

“rise of militarism” ( glorification of war) “Militarist” ran government

Answer 58

Japan

Question 59

major allied power in Europe

Answer 59

Great Britain

Question 60

fascist axis power

Answer 60

Italy

Question 61

where WWII officially started when this country was invaded by germany

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Poland

Question 62

communist allied power

Answer 62

Soviet Union

Question 63

allied power that was known as arsenal of democracy

Answer 63

USA