Test 3

Question 1

Did the Japanese get the carriers or the critical dry-dock and refueling facilities?

Answer 1

No

Question 2

Who was jackie cochran?

Answer 2

first woman to break mach 1 and first person to break mach 2; founded WASP in WW ll (Women’s Airforce Service Pilots)

Question 3

who was wiley post?

Answer 3

first to fly around the world and discovers the jet stream

Question 4

Robert Goddard

Answer 4

father of modern rocketry

Question 5

Juan De La Cierva and Igor Sikorsky

Answer 5

helicopter

Question 6

howard hughes

Answer 6

spruce goose (hercules H-4) worlds largest aircraft

Question 7

jimmy doolittle

Answer 7

Test & Racing Pilot
* First Transcontinental Flight < 24 Hours
* Engineer & PhD in Aeronautics
* First “Blind Flight”
* First “Outside” Loop
* First Transcontinental Flight < 12 hours
Vice President of Shell Oil
* 100 Octane Fuel

Question 8

German Zeppelin Hindenburg LZ-129

Answer 8

germans desperately wanted helium from america

Question 9

kellogg- briand pact

Answer 9

made war illegal

Question 10

maginot line

Answer 10

a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Nazi Germany

Question 11

Improvement in speed, altitude and armaments

Answer 11

Japan invests greatly in naval aircraft carrier aviation
* Germany focuses on air forces in support of Blitzkrieg
* Britain takes balance approached
* United States focuses on bomber aircraft

Question 12

does japan invade china for vice versa?

Answer 12

japan invades china

Question 13

Rise of Nazi Germany

Answer 13

Start to rebuild their Air Force (Luftwaffe) and Army and U-Boats

Question 14

are german planes good?

Answer 14

The new German blitzkrieg is fast, lethal and overwhelming

Question 15

Battle of Britain

Answer 15

ONLY AIRPLANES Germany attempts to defeat British RAF in order to prepare for a final invasion of Britain (Operation Sea Lion)
* RAF must be defeated first!
* German Luftwaffe almost defeats the RAF in early weeks, but two main events saved the RAF
1) German switched from targeting RAF bases to bombing cities – “THE BLITZ”
2) RAF established an intricate network of air defense, radar and command and control system to defend Britain
* Both sides lose more than 1600 aircraft, but the Germans lose the battle and abandon their plans to finish off England
* This decision will cost the Germans the war

Question 16

japanese attack on pearl harbor

Answer 16

december 7th, 1941