Vocabulary 11.5

Question 1

Question: American general who led the Allied invasion of North Africa and the D-Day invasion of France and commanded the Allied forces in Europe during World War II?

Answer 1

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 2

Question: American general who led the American troops in Operation Overlord during World War II and went on to command all US ground troops invading Europe from the West?

Answer 2

Answer: Omar Bradley

Question 3

Question: A name given to June 6, 1944, the day on which the Allies launched an invasion of the European mainland during World War II?

Answer 3

Answer: D-Day

Question 4

Question: American general who was involved in North Africa, Italy, and the Battle of the Bulge during World War II?

Answer 4

Answer: George Patton

Question 5

Question: A month-long battle of World War II in which the Allies succeeded in turning back the last major German offensive of the war?

Answer 5

Answer: Battle of the Bulge

Question 6

Question: American general who commanded the US troops in the Southwest Pacific during World War II and administered occupied Japan after the war ended?

Answer 6

Answer: Douglas MacArthur

Question 7

Question: A forced march of American and Filipino soldiers captured by the Japanese along the Bataan Peninsula during World War II?

Answer 7

Answer: Bataan Death March

Question 8

Question: American admiral who won major victories in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway, stopping the Japanese advance during World War II?

Answer 8

Answer: Chester Nimitz

Question 9

Question: A World War II battle that took place in early June 1942, in which the Allies decimated the Japanese fleet at Midway, an island northwest of Hawaii?

Answer 9

Answer: Battle of Midway

Question 10

Question: The Allied strategy in the Pacific theater during World War II of capturing and securing selected islands and using them as bases to advance closer to Japan while bypassing the heaviest concentrations of enemy forces?

Answer 10

Answer: Island Hopping

Question 11

Question: Engaging in the deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled airplane into a military target?

Answer 11

Answer: Kamikaze

Question 12

Question: A name given to May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day, on which General Eisenhower’s acceptance of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany marked the end of World War II in Europe?

Answer 12

Answer: VE Day

Question 13

Question: President of the US who took office upon the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and led the US through the end of World War II?

Answer 13

Answer: Harry S. Truman

Question 14

Question: American physicist who led the Manhattan Project laboratory in Los Alamos, which developed the first nuclear bomb?

Answer 14

Answer: J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 15

Question: A Japanese city and important military center that was destroyed by the 1st atomic bomb used in World War II?

Answer 15

Answer: Hiroshima

Question 16

Question: A Japanese city destroyed by the 2nd atomic bomb used in World War II?

Answer 16

Answer: Nagasaki

Question 17

Question: An international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development?

Answer 17

Answer: United Nations (UN)

Question 18

Question: The court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes

Answer 18

Answer: Nuremberg Trials

Question 19

Question: A name given to the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for World War II veterans?

Answer 19

Answer: GI Bill of Rights