chapter 25-World War II, Part B

Question 1

Hitler’s war plans included these three parts.

Answer 1

Destroying Soviet Industry
Destroying British morale with a bombing campaign
Blockade British Islands with U-Boats

Question 2

Japan’s was plans included these three parts

Answer 2

Defeating US Navy in Hawaii and Philippines
Conquering South Pacific and Southeast Asia
Threaten Australia and India with Invasions

Question 3

To attack and push back on the edges of the Nazi Empire is called attacking the ____.

Answer 3

Periphery

Question 4

In 1943, Allied attacks on the Nazi Empire occurred in these areas of North Africa.

Answer 4

Algeria
Morocco
Egypt

Question 5

General Eisenhower invades North Africa with Operation _____. in November 1942.

Answer 5

Torch

Question 6

Allied war plans in the South Pacific against Japan was called _____.

Answer 6

Island Hopping

Question 7

The United Nations officially replaces the ______ in 1944 with the primary task of defeating the Axis Powers.

Answer 7

League of Nations

Question 8

In 1941, The Battle of _____ was the Nazi Air campaign’s to destroy the people’s morale.

Answer 8

Battle of Britain

Question 9

The Nazi invasion of Egypt was turned back by the British 8th Army at ______ in August 1942.

Answer 9

Battle of El Alamein

Question 10

On June 22, 1941, Hitler’s Nazi armies invade ____ with Operation Barbarosa

Answer 10

Soviet Union

Question 11

_____ was the turning point battle in the Soviet Union during the winter of 1942-1943.

Answer 11

Stalingrad

Question 12

During the Battle of the Atlantic, U-boats and Destroyers fight head to head until these two new technologies change the outcome of the battle in 1943.

Answer 12

Radar and Sonar

Question 13

This was considered by Winston Churchill as the “soft underbellie” of Hitler’s European Empire.

Answer 13

Italy

Question 14

After the tough fighting up the Italian boot and an amphibious landing at Anzio, _____ was captured in June 1944.

Answer 14

Rome

Question 15

Even after Italy surrenders, the German armies counterattack and put _____ back into power in Italy in 1944.

Answer 15

Benito Mussolini

Question 16

The _____ of Europe was to target railroads, oil production, aircraft factories and the morale of the German people

Answer 16

Allied strategic bombing campaign

Question 17

The ______ demanded a second front in Europe to relieve the pressure the Nazis were causing on the eastern front in 1942, 1943, and 1944.

Answer 17

Soviets

Question 18

Operation Overlord was the Allied invasion of ____

Answer 18

Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944

Question 19

This D-Day beach was the hardest fought over beach during the entire invasion.

Answer 19

Omaha Beach

Question 20

In the summer of 1944, American and Allied forces fought against the Nazis in Normandy in fields surrounded by _______ with the final push through the city of St. Lo, France.

Answer 20

Hedgerows

Question 21

This European battle was Hitler’s final attempt to defeat the Allied armies in the Ardennes Forest with the ultimate target of capturing the port of Antwerp

Answer 21

Battle of the Bulge.

Question 22

These were the trials of Nazi war criminals.

Answer 22

Nuremberg Trials

Question 23

This was celebrated on May 7, 1945.

Answer 23

V-E Day or Victory in Europe Day

Question 24

This was the first strike back on the Japanese home islands by the US Air Forces.

Answer 24

Doolittle Raid

Question 25

These two battles were the turning point battles in the Pacific during World War II

Answer 25

Midway and Guadalcanal

Question 26

The key to the battle of Midway was the breaking of the ______

Answer 26

Japanese secret code

Question 27

_______ promised the _______ that “I shall return” as he escaped capture in 1942.

Answer 27

Gen. MacArthur promised the Philippines

Question 28

These were floating trucks used during invasions by the Allied armies.

Answer 28

DUKWs

Question 29

These were floating tractors and tanks used during invasions by the Allied armies.

Answer 29

amphracs

Question 30

These Japanese suicide pilots had a dreadful impact on Americans ships

Answer 30

Kamikaze

Question 31

This island was vital as a stepping stone for air attacks on Japan itself using B-29 Superfortresses in 1945.

Answer 31

Iwo Jima

Question 32

This invasion prepared for the actual planned invasion of the Japanese home islands in 1945.

Answer 32

Okinawa

Question 33

This was the secret project to develop an atomic bomb.

Answer 33

Manhattan Project

Question 34

The ____ and _____ were the names of the first atomic bombs

Answer 34

Little Boy and Fat Man

Question 35

This two cities were destroyed by the atomic bombs

Answer 35

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 36

This is celebrated when Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers.

Answer 36

V-J Day or Victory over Japan Day

Question 37

The ______Act was passed to build an American army of GIs (government issued soldiers)

Answer 37

Selective Service

Question 38

She was a symbol of the women war workers in the factories

Answer 38

Rosie the Riveter

Question 39

Women who serviced in the military but were not in combat roles were called ___

Answer 39

WACs or Womens Army Corps

Question 40

The _____ were the most famous African American flyers during World War II.

Answer 40

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 41

African American soldiers were often called _______.

Answer 41

Buffalo Soldiers

Question 42

The _________ was to coordinated war production with a cost-plus system of guaranteed profits.

Answer 42

Office of War Mobilization

Question 43

The _______ was to ration consumer goods for military use along with wages and prices.

Answer 43

Office of Price Administration

Question 44

These were made by civilians so that more commercially produced food could go for the war effort

Answer 44

Victory Gardens

Question 45

Factories _______ so that they could provide military equipment during the war rather than consumer goods.

Answer 45

re-tooled from cars to tanks, refrigerators to airplanes, toasters to bombs

Question 46

These quickly built ships were America’s answer to U-boat warfare.

Answer 46

Liberty ships

Question 47

This naval tactic was used so that U-boats had difficulty sinking merchant ships

Answer 47

convoys

Question 48

Many _____ were sent to ______ because of the fear of spies and sabotage after Pearl Harbor.

Answer 48

Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps