WH semester 2 Finals

Question 1

Blitzkrieg

Answer 1

Lightning war

Question 2

Holocaust

Answer 2

The mass slaughter of civilians especially Jews

Question 3

D-day

Answer 3

Also known as operation overlord/ Battle of Normandy
June 6th 1944

Question 4

Hiroshima

Answer 4

Japanese city, 1st atomic bomb dropped

Question 5

Nagasaki

Answer 5

Japanese city, second atomic bomb dropped

Question 6

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 6

22 Nazi leaders tried and convicted

Question 7

Dwight D Eisenhower

Answer 7

Planned and supervised two military campaigns for WW2

Question 8

Allied powers WW1

Answer 8

France, the UK, Russia, and Japan.

Question 9

Allied powers ww2

Answer 9

The US, Britain, and the Soviet Union

Question 10

Dunkirk

Answer 10

The rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk

Question 11

Battle of Britain

Answer 11

Demonstrated the Nazis weren’t invincible

Question 12

Pearl Harbour

Answer 12

Japans attack on Honolulu Hawaii

Question 13

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 13

Founder of the Russian Communist Party

Question 14

Mao Zedong

Answer 14

Chinese leader and founder of the People’s republic of China

Question 15

Harry Truman

Answer 15

33rd US president ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Question 16

Central Powers

Answer 16

Germany, Austria- Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.

Question 17

Poland

Answer 17

During ww2 they fought alongside western allies

Question 18

Island hopping

Answer 18

Skipping over highly defended islands to seize lightly defended ones

Question 19

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 19

A battle that turned the war in Hitlers favor

Question 20

Joseph Stalin

Answer 20

Dictator in Russia during ww2

Question 21

Atomic bomb

Answer 21

The most powerful bomb ever made, dropped on Japan to end ww2

Question 22

United Nations

Answer 22

An international governing body made to increase political and economic cooperation

Question 23

Johann Gutenberg

Answer 23

Designed and built the first mechanical printing press in Europe

Question 24

Charles Degaule

Answer 24

Led French forces in ww2. Became French president right after the war.

Question 25

Kaiser Whilhelm the 2

Answer 25

Gave Germany a bad reputation for militarism. Helped set the course for Germany’s entry into WW1

Question 26

David Lloyd George

Answer 26

Leader of the UK during WW1

Question 27

League of Nations

Answer 27

An international organization to promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security