Unit 3:: WWII

Question 1

what were women considered in the war?

Answer 1

They took over all of the mens jobs because they were in war such as electricians

Question 2

What were home front activities?

Answer 2

people that helped out during the war, this benefited the war greatly

Question 3

What is Japanese Internment?

Answer 3

Used to hold Japanese-American citizens due to fear of spies and sabateurs during WWII

Question 4

What is Executive Order 9066?

Answer 4

Feb, 1942, signed by FDR and authorized the exclusion of more than 112,000 Japanese –> internment camps

Question 5

Who is Roosevelt?

Answer 5

President of the US during Great Depression and World War II

Question 6

Who is Truman?

Answer 6

33 President, authorized use of atomic bomb, and signed Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe. FDR’s vice president made the decision to drop the Atomic bomb on Japan

Question 7

What is the Lend-lease act?

Answer 7

allows America to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered “vital to the defense of the U.S.”

Question 8

What is the battle “pearl harbor”?

Answer 8

Starting point of WW2 in Pacific which mostly between US and Japanese. A “date which will live in infamy” – Dec. 7, 1941 – 3,000 casualties & fleet destroyed, this led to the U.S. entry into the war

Question 9

What is the Manhattan Project?

Answer 9

Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb.

Question 10

Who is Hitler?

Answer 10

leader of Nazi Party (National Socialist party) and Dictator of the German Empire

Question 11

Who is Mussolini?

Answer 11

fascist dictator of Italy, Il Duce – the Leader

Question 12

who is Stalin?

Answer 12

leader of Soviet Union, also worked with Roosevelt and Churchill during WWII.

Question 13

What is the Tripartite pact?

Answer 13

Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II.

Question 14

What happened september 1, 1939?

Answer 14

Germany invades Poland (WWII starts)

Question 15

What is the non-aggression pact?

Answer 15

Agreement between Germany and Russia not to fight each other

Question 16

What is the holocaust?

Answer 16

the organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII

Question 17

What does ‘Mein Kampf’ stand for?

Answer 17

‘my struggle’

Question 18

what is Blitzkrieg?

Answer 18

German for lightning war; the swift attacks launched by Germany in World War II

Question 19

what is Luftwaffe?

Answer 19

German air force

Question 20

What is appeasement?

Answer 20

attempting to avoid conflict by making concessions and agreeing to part of the demands (giving Hitler what he wanted so he would stop aggression)

Question 21

what is operation overlord?

Answer 21

June 6th 1944, Allied forces under Dwight d. Eisenhower landed on the beaches of Normandy in history’s greatest naval invasion –> surrounded Germ. to force surrender

Question 22

Who is Eisenhower?

Answer 22

General who commanded troops in North Africa

Question 23

What was the Dunkirk battle?

Answer 23

the British military is trapped on the French coast but using civilian and military ships manages to evacuate most of its army - considered a miracle

Question 24

What was the battle of Britain?

Answer 24

only battle to ever be fought completely in the air, Germany tries to subdue England with massive air attacks

Question 25

what was the battle of the bulge?

Answer 25

Germany’s last battle

Question 26

what was D-day

Answer 26

June 6, 1944 Allies land on the beaches in Normandy, France and go on the offensive to drive Hitler’s forces back into Germany

Question 27

What is Stalingrad?

Answer 27

a 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union thanks to harsh winter –> turning point of war in Eastern Europe

Question 28

who is Yamamoto?

Answer 28

He was a marshal and commander in chief of the japanese

Question 29

Who is Hirohita?

Answer 29

he was japans longest reigning monarch.

Question 30

what is a Kamikaze?

Answer 30

They were japanese suicide pilots.

Question 31

Who is MacArthur?

Answer 31

he was an american 5 star general for the Philippine army, and chief of staff for the american army

Question 32

What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Answer 32

they were the cities that america dropped the atomic bomb on in japan

Question 33

What is the midway battle?

Answer 33

U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II.

Question 34

what is the Iwo Jima Battle?

Answer 34

Bloody but crucial win since it was the last stage in the American island hoping campaign to defeat the Japanese army.

Question 35

what is the Guadalcanal battle?

Answer 35

The 1942 battle of Guadalcanal against the Japanese troops in the Solomon Islands played a pivotal military role in World War II.

Question 36

what is the philippines battle?

Answer 36

US won the battle between the Japanese–june 1944

Question 37

what is the coral sea battle?

Answer 37

The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during May 4–8, 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States (U.S.) and Australia. The battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other.