Ch25 - People

Question 1

Who was the Fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943?

Answer 1

Benito Mussolini

Question 2

Who was the Nazi dictator, called “Der Fuhrer” of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and began the Third Reich?

Answer 2

Adolf Hitler

Question 3

Who was the leader of the Japanese militarists who held the reins of power during World War II.

Answer 3

Hideki Tojo

Question 4

Who was the official head of the Japanese government during World War II.

Answer 4

Emperor Hirohito

Question 5

Who was the leader of the Nationalist Chinese government?

Answer 5

Chiang Kai-shek

Question 6

Who was the leader of the Chinese Communists who fought against the Nationalists?

Answer 6

Mao Tse-tung

Question 7

What American general led the “Flying Tigers” against the Japanese in China?

Answer 7

Claire Chennault

Question 8

“Flying Tigers”

Answer 8

Led by Claire Chennault;

A group of volunteer squadrons of American airmen.

Question 9

What Spanish general fought and eventually defeated the Communist forces in Spain and established a military government in 1939?

Answer 9

Fransisco Franco

Question 10

What British prime minister agreed to Hitler’s demands and signed the Munich Pact?

Answer 10

Neville Chamberlain

Question 11

What pact dismembered Czechoslovakia by giving the rich Sudentenland to Germany?

Answer 11

Munich Pact

Question 12

What Norwegian traitor became the head of the Nazi puppet government in Norway?

Answer 12

Vidkun Quisling

Question 13

Who was the leader of the Vichy government in occupied France?

Answer 13

Henri Petain

Question 14

Who was the leader of the Free French government in Britain?

Answer 14

Charles de Gaulle

Question 15

What prime minister of Great Britain during much of World War II who rallied the British people during the Battle of Britain?

Answer 15

Winston Churchill

Question 16

Who was the Nazi field marshal what commanded the Afrika Korps and was called “the Desert Fox”?

Answer 16

Erwin Rommel

Question 17

Who was the leader of the British Eighth Army who launched a heavy counteroffensive against the Africa Korps at El Alamein?

Answer 17

Bernard Montgomery

Question 18

What American general co-led Operation Torch with General Patton and became Supreme Allied Commander of the D-Day invasion of Western Europe?

Answer 18

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 19

What American General co-led Operation Torch with General Eisenhower?

Answer 19

George S. Patton

Question 20

What American General in command of the defense of the Philippines and later became the supreme commander of all U.S. and Allied forces in the Pacific?

Answer 20

Douglas MacArthur

Question 21

What American colonel led a bombing raid against Tokyo and other Japanese cities in 1942?

Answer 21

“Jimmy” Doolittle

Question 22

Who succeeded Roosevelt as U.S. President in 1945 and, at the close of World War II, decided to use the atomic bomb?

Answer 22

Harry S. Truman

Question 23

Who succeeded Winston Churchill as British prime minister in 1945?

Answer 23

Clement Atlee

Question 24

What German-born Jewish physicist wrote a letter to President Roosevelt warning him that the Germans might produce an atomic weapon and that the United States should begin research in this area?

Answer 24

Albert Einstein

Question 25

What scientists helped produce the atomic bomb?

Answer 25

Enrico Fermi
Edward Teller
J. Robert Oppenheimer