WW2

Question 1

Holocaust

Answer 1

The systematic extermination of Jews in Germany.

Question 2

D-Day

Answer 2

The allied invasion of Normandy.

Question 3

Appeasement

Answer 3

Giving into demands to prevent aggression

Question 4

Blitzkrieg

Answer 4

military tactic of overwhelming enemy forces through speed and firepower

Question 5

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

Answer 5

Two Japanese cities they were devastated by the atomic bomb

Question 6

Lend Lease Act

Answer 6

Enabled the U.S. to send supplies to allied nations.

Question 7

Dr.Jonas Salk

Answer 7

Created a Vaccine for Polio

Question 8

GI Bill

Answer 8

Provides benefits to veterans

Question 9

Baby Boom

Answer 9

significant increase in birth rates after WW2

Question 10

Adolf Hitler

Answer 10

Dictator of Germany

Question 11

Hirohito

Answer 11

Emperor of Japan

Question 12

Rationing

Answer 12

controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, services,

Question 13

Executive Order 9066

Answer 13

authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security. Most of these people were placed in internment camps

Question 14

Manhattan Project

Answer 14

development of the atomic bomb

Question 15

Tuskegee Airmen

Answer 15

elite group of fire pilots

Question 16

Neutrality Acts

Answer 16

A series of acts designed to keep the U.S. out of foreign wars

Question 17

Non-aggression Pact

Answer 17

a treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other.

Question 18

Auschwitz

Answer 18

a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II

Question 19

Joseph Stalin

Answer 19

Leader of Russia and an allie of the U.S.

Question 20

Harry Truman

Answer 20

Served as president of the United States after the death of FDR. He also made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima

Question 21

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 21

Supreme commander of the allied troops on D-Day

Question 22

Chester Nimitz

Answer 22

a fleet admiral of the United States Navy.

Question 23

WW2

Answer 23

was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945

Question 24

Douglass MacArthur

Answer 24

general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II

Question 25

George Patton

Answer 25

he helped lead the Allies to victory in the invasion of Sicily, and was instrumental to the liberation of Germany from the Nazis

Question 26

Omar Bradley

Answer 26

as commander of the First Army, he was instrumental to the success of the Normandy campaign

Question 27

Benito Mussolini

Answer 27

Leader of Italy. He founded and led the National Fascist party

Question 28

George Marshall

Answer 28

general of the army and U.S. Army chief of staff during World War II