World war 2

Question 1

Axis powers

Answer 1

Germany Italy and Japan, Germany led by Adolf hitler, Italy led by Benito Mussolini, and Japan led by Emperor Hirohito

Question 2

Allies

Answer 2

U.K (gear Britain) , France, Soviet Union, U.S, China, Canada, Australia, Poland and Greece

U.S, U.K, Soviet Union, and China

Question 3

Cash and carry Four Freedoms

Answer 3

Policies by FDR, used as a propaganda tool, became the moral foundation for the U.S involvement in the war

Policies by FDR, a foundation for the U.S involment in the war

Question 4

FOUR FREEDOMS

Answer 4

1. Freedom of speech 2. Freedom of worship 3. Freedom from want 4. Freedom from fear

Question 5

Lend - Lease Act, Non-aggression pact

Answer 5

Allowed the U.S to aid allies without entering the war, non-aggression pact enabled Germany to invade Poland w/ fear of a two-front war

Question 6

How did the U.S try to stay neutral

Answer 6

Through legislation like the neutrality acts, restricted arms sales and loans

Question 7

Navajo Code Talkers

Answer 7

Used code words to speak to each other translating the complex language

Question 8

Potsdam and Yalta Conference

Answer 8

Pivotal meetings during ww2 where FDR, Churchill and Stalin made crucial decisions about the post-war world, mainly on Germany and Eastern Europe

Question 9

Manhattan Project

Answer 9

A top secret project during ww2 that developed the first atomic bombs,driven by the fear that Nazi Germany was also pursing nuclear weapons

Question 10

Marshall plan (European Recovery Program)

Answer 10

A U.S initiative to aid Western Europe in rebuilding after WW2, preventing the spread of communism

U.S aiding Western Europe preventing spread of communism

Question 11

Atomic Bomb

Answer 11

The U.A developed two atomic bombshell on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 1945

Question 12

Isolationism

Answer 12

a big force in public opinion and policy that was to avoid repeating the mistakes and losses of WW1 and the great depression

A policy to avoid making the same mistakes from WW1

Question 13

Fascist Leaders

Answer 13

A. Hitler, B. Mussolini, F. France, its a far-right political philosophy of government that emerged in the early twentieth century

Question 14

Nazis

Answer 14

National Socialist German workers party led by Hitler, a fair-right political party that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945

Question 15

Island hopping

Answer 15

U.S strategy that targeted key islands to capture w/ airstrips bringing B-29 bombers

Question 16

Kamikaze

Answer 16

Japanese pilots who intentionally crashed their planes into enemy targets, ships during suicide mission

Question 17

Operation Torch

Answer 17

the allied invasion of French North Africa during WW2 nov. 1942 leading to liberation of North Africa and aiming to open a new front against the Axis powers

Question 18

D-day (normandy) operation overload

Answer 18

June 6 1944 the allies invading Western Europe, largest invasion

allies invaded wester europe

Question 19

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 19

the last major German offensive on the western front in Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg in dec. 6 1944 - jan. 25 1945

last german offesive on the western front in belgium to divide the allie

Question 20

Midway

Answer 20

a naval battle between the U.S and Japan in the Pacific theater 6 months after Pearl Harbor

Question 21

Pearl Harbor

Answer 21

“a date that will live in infamy”, a surprise military attack by Japan on the U.S naval base a Pearl Harbor Hawaii, dec. 7 1943

Question 22

Guadalcanal

Answer 22

a site where naval battles by the Allied and Japanese forces were fought for 6 months aye. 1942 - Feb. 1943

a site that batteld in the air, on land, and the sea for 6 months

Question 23

Iwa Jima

Answer 23

an island in the Pacific Ocean that was the site of a crucial battle between the U.S marines and the Japanese Army in Fe. and March 1945

Question 24

Okinawa

Answer 24

the brutal battle from april to june 1945 and the Japanese island

Question 25

Bataan

Answer 25

Bataan Pennsula in the Philippines where a major battle took place between the allied forces and the Japanese after months of fighting the allies surrendered leading to Bataan Death March | battle between allied forces and japan, allies eneded up surrendering

Question 26

Coral sea

Answer 26

a major naval and air battle fought in the Pacific Theater between the U.S, Australia and the Imperial Japanese Navy, May 4-8 1942 | a naval and air battle in pacific theater between u.s australia, & Japan

Question 27

Holocaust

Answer 27

genocide where Nazi Germany led by hitler murdering and torturing 6 million Jews and Romani people, disabled, soviet prisoners of war and others who weren't "worthy enough"

Question 28

Manhattan Project

Answer 28

a top secret U.S government project during WW2, developing the first nuclear weapons, ex. the atomic bomb

Question 29

George S. Patton

Answer 29

U.S Army General known for his aggressive leadership and skill in tank warfare

Question 30

Churchill

Answer 30

pride minister of the U.K where he railed the British ppl and led the country through the war against Axis powers, known for his speeches

Question 31

Douglas Macarthur

Answer 31

U.S general who commanded American and Allied forces in the Pacific Theater, he was also in charge of the Allied occupation of Japan after the war

Question 32

Hitler, Adolf

Answer 32

Was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 to his suicide 1945, he was antisemitism and racial supremacy, holocaust

Question 33

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 33

created the new deals, directed the federal government during the most of the Great depression, realized American politics into the fifth party system

Question 34

Harry Truman

Answer 34

33rd U.S president from 1945 to 1953, he lead the U.S through the end of WW2 and the beginning of the Cold War, he said to use atomic bombs on Japan

Question 35

Isoroku Yamaato

Answer 35

Marshall Admiral of the imperial Japanese Navy and the commander-in-cheif of the combined fleet during WW2, the mastermind behind Pearl Harbors surprise attack

Question 36

Tuskegee Airmen

Answer 36

The first black military aviators in the U.S flying bomber escort missions and fighting energy aircraft in Europe and North Africa

Question 37

Consumers (rationing)

Answer 37

Cars, radios, vacuums, gasoline, food, and clothing to ensure civilians to survive

Question 38

Women's employment during and After war

Answer 38

Before: only working in specific jobs, nursing, teacher.. After: entering workforce to fill jobs worked by men

Question 39

Migration patterns during WW2 (rural, urban)

Answer 39

Lots of migration from rural areas to urban centers, mostly industrial hubs in the North and West

Question 40

In what ways did the U.S pay for the war

Answer 40

increased taxes, sale bonds, inflation, land-lease program and borrowing

Question 41

Zootsuiters

Answer 41

style of outfits, baggy pants, long coats, and wide lapels (fancy baggy)

Question 42

Labor unions- what did they promise during the war

Answer 42

a no-strike commitment for the duration of the war, freezing wages, to ensure uninterrupted production of war materials/ supplies

Question 43

War Production Board (WPB)

Answer 43

a U.S government agency in 1942 to oversee and direct the production of war materials during WW2

Question 44

How was presidential power expanded during WW2

Answer 44

gave FDR control over the government, economy, and military setting future expansions of executive power

Question 45

How were minorities treated during the war

Answer 45

mostly African - American soldiers weren't placed in active combat roles, segregation/ discrimination in the defense industry

Question 46

Executive order 9066 and 8802

Answer 46

9066 authorized the incarceration of Japanese Americans, 8802 prohibited discrimination in the defense industry