WWII

Question 1

The American commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific during World War II was

Answer 1

Douglas MacArthur

Question 2

In the _________ after World War II former nazi leaders face charges of waiting a war of aggression and committing crimes against humanity

Answer 2

The Nuremberg Trials

Question 3

Prime minister of Great Britain during World War II was

Answer 3

Winston Churchill

Question 4

The French general who set up a government in exile want in London and organized the free French military forces during World War II was

Answer 4

Charles de Gualle

Question 5

The American general who served as a commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II

Answer 5

Dwight D Eisenhower

Question 6

Picture big boy Terry strategy that means lightning war was

Answer 6

Blitzkreig

Question 7

German air attacks on Britain’s Air Force and cities that lasted from summer of 1940 until May 10, 1941 is known as the

Answer 7

Battle of Britain

Question 8

The first day of the invasion of Normandy it World War II is known as

Answer 8

D-Day

Question 9

The battle that brought the war in Europe to a quick end was

Answer 9

Battle of the bulge

Question 10

The process of disbanding the countries Armed Forces is called

Answer 10

Demilitarization

Question 11

The short battle that turned the tide of war in favor of the allies in the Pacific was the

Answer 11

Battle of Midway

Question 12

Mass killing of a certain group of people

Answer 12

Genocide

Question 13

Who was the greatest naval strategist also called the attack on Pearl Harbor

Answer 13

Admiral Yamamoto

Question 14

Who fought in the battle of Guadalcanal

Answer 14

The US and Japan

Question 15

Island hopping was a

Answer 15

War tactic used by the US

Question 16

In what battle did Japan attack midway island that was 1500 miles west of Hawaii

Answer 16

Battle of midway

Question 17

What was the code name for d day

Answer 17

Operation overlord

Question 18

Why did Germany not win Battle of the Bulge

Answer 18

Lack of fuel and weather

Question 19

On February 19, 1942 all people of_______ancestry on the west coast of the US we’re sent to prison camps

Answer 19

Japanese

Question 20

__________ was head of the Manhattan project which was when the first atomic bomb was created

Answer 20

J Robert Oppenheimer

Question 21

After World War II who took over most European governments

Answer 21

Communists

Question 22

___________ was the U.S. Open Europe rebuild after the war and try to stop the communists

Answer 22

The Marshall plan

Question 23

What were the two steps of the Marshall plan

Answer 23

1: help rebuild Europe
2: remove communists

Question 24

_______ was when people were put on trial for crimes against humanity and genocide

Answer 24

The Nuremberg Trials

Question 25

Japan adopts a new _________ in 1947

Answer 25

A new constitution

Question 26

Japan’s new constitution states that

Answer 26

Japan will not attack another country

Question 27

What were the Aryans

Answer 27

The “master race” or in WWII were the Germans/Nazis

Question 28

What was the mass genocide of the Jewish people

Answer 28

Holocaust

Question 29

What was Hitlers “the Final Solution”

Answer 29

mass genocide of Jews or sending them to concentration camps

Question 30

The joint declaration issued by Roosevelt and Churchill during World War II of holding free-trade about nations at the rate of people to choose their own government was called the

Answer 30

Atlantic charter