US HISTORY. WW2

Question 1

Four major allied powers in WW2:

Answer 1

• United Kingdom
• Soviet Union
• USA
• China

Question 2

Name the three major Axis Powers in WW2:

Answer 2

• Germany
• Italy
• Japan

Question 3

Was the code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union:

Answer 3

Operation Sea Lion.

Question 4

Was the code name for D-Day, The Battle of Normandy:

Answer 4

Deliverance Day

Question 5

What was the importance of the Battle of Britain?

Answer 5

Was Hitler’s plan to invade and conquer Britain! Must control sky first.

Question 6

The _______ Airmen were the first black servicemen to serve as military pilots in WW2.

Answer 6

Tuskegee.

Question 7

What were the three major results of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

Answer 7

1- USA enters WW2.
2- Unites the people of the USA - Americans wanted Revenge.
3- Japanese Americans were forced into prison camps.

Question 8

Give reasons why the Pearl Harbor attack was not a total success:

Answer 8

1- Destroy the repair facilities.
2- Destroy the fuel depots.
3- Did not destroy submarines.
4- Destroy the US aircraft carriers.

Question 9

Give the reasons why Germany invaded the Soviet Union: Explain why this invasion was one Hitler’s biggest mistakes:

Answer 9

Because he lost over one third of army and military resources.

Question 10

What reason did the US government give for putting Japanese-Americans into internment camps? What was the REAL REASON?

Answer 10

National security

Question 11

Discuss the 4 things did Hitler did in his “Final Solution” to rid Europe of the Jewish nation?

Answer 11

1. Immigration: Make life so bad in Germany that they pled the country!
2. Mobile Death Squads: Were machined gunned to death!
3. Ghettos: Sealed off phone barbed wire and forced to ore with little food!
4. Death camps/Gas chambers: Jews gassed in showers and cremated in ovens!

Question 12

During the_________70,000 Americans and Filipinos soldiers died on their way to a POW camp.

Answer 12

Battle of Bataan.

Question 13

The three different types of German concentration camps used in WW2:

Answer 13

1. POW Camps: Held prisoners of War mostly in Germany.
2. Work Camps: Used slave labor to help the German War.
3. Death Camps: Used to exterminate people.

Question 14

Why did the USA decide to use the atomic bomb on Japan rather than to invade the country?

Answer 14

Because it would save lives.

Question 15

Results of WW2:

Answer 15

1. 70 million people died.
2. Europe is in ruins.
3. Cold War.
4. Great Britain lost its empire.
5. Nuclear age.
6. Creation of Israel.