16 World War II, 1939–1945

Question 1

nonaggression pact

Answer 1

agreement between countries to not attack or invade each other

Question 2

blitzkrieg

Answer 2

warfare in which surprise air attacks are followed by massive land attacks

Question 3

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 3

leader of the French government-in-exile

Question 4

Winston Churchill

Answer 4

leader of Britain

Question 5

Battle of Britain

Answer 5

battle of British and German air forces fought over Britain during 1940-41

Question 6

Dunkirk

Answer 6

city from which 300,000 trapped Allied troops were rescued by sea

Question 7

Erwin Rommel

Answer 7

German general who led troops in North Africa; the “Desert Fox”

Question 8

Atlantic Charter

Answer 8

declaration of principles issued by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941

Question 9

Finland

Answer 9

country that resisted annexation by Russia

Question 10

Phony War

Answer 10

a lack of actual fighting after Britain and France declared war on Germany

Question 11

Maginot Line

Answer 11

fortifications along France’s border with Germany

Question 12

Belgium

Answer 12

country through which Germany invaded France

Question 13

Luftwaffe

Answer 13

German air force

Question 14

Enigma

Answer 14

decoding machine for encrypted German messages

Question 15

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 15

German invasion of Russia

Question 16

Isoroku Yamamoto

Answer 16

Japanese admiral who decided that the US fleet at Pearl Harbor had to be destroyed

Question 17

Pearl Harbor

Answer 17

US Navy base in Hawaii

Question 18

Battle of Midway

Answer 18

sea and air battle in which American forces defeated Japanese forces near Midway Island in the Pacific

Question 19

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 19

US general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific

Question 20

Battle of Guadalcanal

Answer 20

six-month island battle in which American and Australian troops defeated Japanese defenders

Question 21

Aryans

Answer 21

a person of Caucasian race not of Jewish descent

Question 22

Holocaust

Answer 22

systematic mass killings of Jews and other groups considered inferior by Nazis

Question 23

Kristallnacht

Answer 23

Night of Broken Glass, when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany

Question 24

ghetto

Answer 24

neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live

Question 25

Final Solution

Answer 25

Hitler’s plan to kill as many Jews as possible

Question 26

genocide

Answer 26

systematic killing of an entire people group

Question 27

SS

Answer 27

Hitler’s elite security force

Question 28

Auschwitz

Answer 28

the largest of the extermination camps

Question 29

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 29

US general who helped drive the Germans out of Africa

Question 30

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 30

battle during which the Red Army forced the Germans out of this city named after their leader

Question 31

D-Day

Answer 31

huge Allied invasion mounted to retake France from the Germans

Question 32

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 32

final large-scale attack by German troops that was forced back by the Allies

Question 33

kamikaze

Answer 33

Japanese suicide pilots

Question 34

Nuremburg Trials

Answer 34

where Nazi leaders were tried for crimes against humanity

Question 35

demilitarization

Answer 35

process of breaking down armed forces

Question 36

democritization

Answer 36

process of creating a government elected by the people