G.S 4-17

Question 1

Which three countries made up the Axis powers during WWII?

Answer 1

Italy, Japan, Germany

Question 2

Giving in to the demands of an aggressor to keep the peace

Answer 2

appeasement

Question 3

In September 1938, British and French leaders gave into Hitler’s demands
and persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland at the

Answer 3

Munich Conference

Question 4

Hitler’s invasion of what country prompted Britain and France to declare war on Germany in 1939?

Answer 4

Poland

Question 5

The agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 in which the two
nations promised not to fight each other and to divide up land in
Eastern Europe

Answer 5

Nazi-Soviet pact

Question 6

Hitler’s plan to invade Britain was called

Answer 6

Operation Sea Lion

Question 7

The systematic genocide of about 6 million European Jews by the Nazis during WW2

Answer 7

Holocaust

Question 8

Detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the state

Answer 8

concentration camps

Question 9

Hitler’s plan to invade the Soviet Union was called

Answer 9

Operation Barbarossa

Question 10

Hitler’s strategy also called the “lightning war” improved tank and airpower technology to strike a devastating blow against the enemy.

Answer 10

blitzkrieg

Question 11

Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1941 that allowed the president to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense was considered vital to the United States

Answer 11

Lend Lease Act

Question 12

Why did the German advances stall during Operation Barbarossa?

Answer 12

Because of harsh winter conditions

Question 13

Hitler’s most brilliant commander was sent to North Africa to push the
British army back across the desert toward Cairo, Egypt

Answer 13

General Erwin Rommel

Question 14

Which three leaders made up the big three during WW2?

Answer 14

Churchill, Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Question 15

The Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944, is called

Answer 15

D-Day

Question 16

Ships that transport aircraft and accommodate the take-off and landing of airplanes

Answer 16

aircraft carriers

Question 17

Which American general and future president took command of a joint British
and American forces in Morocco and Algeria, leading to the Allied control
of Africa?

Answer 17

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 18

The meeting between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt in February 1945 when the three leaders made agreements regarding the end of WW2

Answer 18

Yalta Conference

Question 19

The battle in which the Red Army drove Germany out of the Soviet Union and Hitler
suffered an irreplaceable loss of troops and equipment

Answer 19

Stalingrad

Question 20

The United States got the Japanese to surrender and put an end to World War
2 in August 1945 when they dropped atomic bombs on which two cities?

Answer 20

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 21

During WW2, the American strategy of recapturing some Japanese islands while bypassing others was called what, and who came up with this idea?

Answer 21

it was called island hopping and Douglas MacArthur came up with it.

Question 22

Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions were called

Answer 22

Kamikaze pilots

Question 23

The code name for the project to build the first atomic bomb during WW2

Answer 23

Manhattan Project

Question 24

During WW2, the forced march of Filipino and American prisoners of war under
brutal conditions by the Japanese military

Answer 24

Bataan Death March

Question 25

Following the Holocaust, nearly 200 Germans and Austrians were tried and found
guilty of war crimes and this took place where

Answer 25

Nuremberg

Question 26

International organization established after WW2 to maintain peace
and cooperation in the international community

Answer 26

United Nations

Question 27

A state of tension that existed between nations aligned with the United
States on one side and the Soviet Union on the other that lasted from
1947-1991

Answer 27

Cold War

Question 28

United States policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism

Answer 28

Truman Doctrine

Question 29

Massive aid package offered by the U.S. to Europe to help countries rebuild after WW2

Answer 29

Marshall Plan

Question 30

NATO was a military alliance between several North Atlantic states to
safeguard them from the presumed threat of the Soviet Union’s communism
and agreed to help one another if attacked. What did NATO stand for

Answer 30

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 31

The German Air Force, also known as

Answer 31

Luftwaffe

Question 32

battle where German forces surprised the French and British by attacking through the Ardennes Forest in Belgium. In a panic, the British sent all of their forces and managed to save 300,00 troops, boosting their morale.

Answer 32

Miracle of Dunkirk