WWII Important People

Question 1

Benito Mussolini

Answer 1

Fascist Italian Dictator (1922 - 1943)

Question 2

Adolf Hitler

Answer 2

Nazi, Chancellor of Germany, WWI veteran

Question 3

Joseph Stalin

Answer 3

Communist dictator, Soviet Union, 1928

Question 4

Winston Churchill

Answer 4

British Prime Minister, WWII

Question 5

A. Philip Randolph

Answer 5

African-American labor leader

Question 6

Benjamin O. Davis Jr.

Answer 6

Tuskegee Airman group leader, first African-American general, US Air Force

Question 7

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 7

Commander of Allied Forces of Europe, American general, later US President

Question 8

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 8

Commander US ground troops in in Pacific theater

Question 9

Chester Nimitz

Answer 9

Commander, American Pacific fleet, US Admiral

Question 10

Harry S. Truman

Answer 10

VP for FDR, succeeded to presidency when Roosevelt died

Question 11

Nazis

Answer 11

National Socialist Party, controlled Germany 1933-1945

Question 12

Axis Powers

Answer 12

Germany, Italy, Japan WWII alliance

Question 13

Allied Powers

Answer 13

Great Britain, France, United States, and Soviet Union

Question 14

Tuskegee Airmen

Answer 14

African-American pilots, trained in Tuskegee AL, fiercest pilots, much decorate.

Question 15

kamikaze

Answer 15

Japanese pilots who crashed planes into enemy ships