World War 2

Question 1

Josef Stalin

Answer 1

The leader of the Soviet Union during WW2

Question 2

Winston Churchill

Answer 2

The prime minister of Great Britain during WW2

Question 3

Adolf Hitler

Answer 3

The german dictator during WW2

Question 4

Erwin Rommel

Answer 4

The German general of North Africa

Question 5

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 5

The commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific

Question 6

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 6

The commander of the Allied forces in Europe

Question 7

Axis Powers

Answer 7

Countries that fought in the war, including Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 8

Allied Powers

Answer 8

Countries that fought in the war, including Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Egypt

Question 9

Neutral Countries

Answer 9

Countries that did not fight in the war, including Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey.

Question 10

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 10

The American Policy to give Allied troops (specifically Britain) much needed supplies in return for an I.O.U. or trade for land, rent-free, for military bases.

Question 11

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Answer 11

The agreement between Germany and Russia that stated neither side would attack the other. Basically allowed Hitler to invade Poland.

Question 12

Atlantic Charter

Answer 12

Signed by Churchill and Roosevelt, it was a pledge of post-war goals.

Question 13

Rationing

Answer 13

Using less of certain products, or going without so that the surplus materials can be sent overseas to the military.

Question 14

Island Hopping

Answer 14

General MacArthur developed this strategy in the Pacific to systematically gain islands from the Japanese.

Question 15

Pearl Harbor

Answer 15

The surprise attack on the United States by Japan, on December 7, 1941.

Question 16

Bataan Death March

Answer 16

Prisoners of war in the Pacific, were made to march 65 miles.

Question 17

Atomic Bomb

Answer 17

Preparation and research was called the Manhattan Project. The United States dropped two of them on Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Question 18

Holocaust

Answer 18

Term for the persecution of Jews and other groups by the Nazis.

Question 19

Normandy Invasion/D-Day

Answer 19

A major defensive Allied push, permanently turning the tide of war in favor of the Allies. Troops attacked the Normandy shore.

Question 20

Blitzkrieg

Answer 20

Literally, “lighting war,” the very effective style of fighting the Germans used to quickly invade or attack other countries.

Question 21

WACs

Answer 21

The women who worked as clerks and nurses during the war.

Question 22

Japanese Americans

Answer 22

Sent to internment camps because the United States feared that they might be spies for Japan.

Question 23

Tuskegee Airmen

Answer 23

African American pilot group.

Question 24

V-E Day

Answer 24

Stands for Victory in Europe, May 8, 1945.

Question 25

Nuremberg

Answer 25

The site of the war crime trials for nazis.

Question 26

V-J Day

Answer 26

August 14, 1945, stands for Victory over Japan.