Section 4

Question 1

What battle was the turning point in the Soviet Union?

Answer 1

Stalingrad

Question 2

What did the US and Britain provide for the Soviet Union?

Answer 2

Supplies only

Question 3

What was the Battle of El Alamein?

Answer 3

The Germans were dug in so deep into the city of El Alamein, that the only way to go around them was by a frontal attack.
Monty vs. Rommel (Britain vs. Germany)

Question 4

What was Operation Torch?

Answer 4

A force of 100,000 Allied troops landed in Morocco and Algeria. Rommel’s Afrika Korps was finally defeated.

Question 5

Who led Operation Torch?

Answer 5

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 6

Who was in command of the Sixth Army?

Answer 6

Friedrich Paulus

Question 7

What was the Sixth Army sent to do?

Answer 7

Seize the oil fields in the Caucasus mountains and capture Stalingrad.

Question 8

Why was Stalingrad so important to Hitler?

Answer 8

It was a major industrial center on the Volga River.

Question 9

What led to ultimate fall of Mussolini?

Answer 9

The conquest of Sicily.

Question 10

What role did citizens play in the war?

Answer 10

Many made weapons and equipment for the war.

Question 11

What effect did this have on the citizens?

Answer 11

Good shortages, rationing of goods like nylon, meat, sugar, and tires

Question 12

What affect did propaganda have on Japanese Americans?

Answer 12

Prejudice after the bombing of Pearl Harbor led many Americans to believe that the Japanese living in the US were planning another attack on them. Many Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps.

Question 13

What is a Nisei?

Answer 13

A native-born American citizen whose parents were Japanese. Accounted for two-thirds of those in internment camps.

Question 14

What is the largest land and sea attack in history?

What could it also be called?

Answer 14

D-day

Operation Overload

Question 15

Who led the United States Third Army at the invasion of Normandy?

Answer 15

General George Patton

Question 16

What did Hitler hope would happen when he decided to counter attack in the west when facing a war on two fronts?

Answer 16

A victory would separate the British and American forces and break up the Allied supply lines.

Question 17

What was the Battle of the Bulge?

Answer 17

A campaign in which the Germans pushed the Allied lines and broke through a fleet of American defenses.

Question 18

What is V-E day?

Answer 18

Victory in Europe day, the day the war ended in Europe after six years of fighting.

Question 19

What were kamikazes?

Answer 19

Japanese suicide pilots

Question 20

What was the Manhattan Project? What did they create?

Answer 20

The Manhattan Project was top secret and led by General Leslie Groves and chief scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer . The Manhattan Project created the atomic bomb, or A-bomb.