World War 2 Test Cards

Question 1

September 1st, 1939

Answer 1

Germany invades Poland

Question 2

December 7th, 1941

Answer 2

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 3

June 6th, 1944

Answer 3

D-Day Operation

Question 4

May 8th, 1945

Answer 4

Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day)

Question 5

August 6th, 1945

Answer 5

first bomb was dropped on the center of Hiroshima

Question 6

August 9th, 1945

Answer 6

second bomb was dropped at Nagasaki

Question 7

Operation Torch

Answer 7

North African Campaign

Question 8

Operation Barbaroosa

Answer 8

the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies

Question 9

Operation Overlord (D-Day)

Answer 9

codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II

Question 10

Operation Husky

Answer 10

the invasion of sicily

Question 11

Bataan Death March

Answer 11

80 mile walk American POWS were forced to make in the Philippines

Question 12

Casablanca Conference

Answer 12

• Meeting between FDR/Churchill (Stalin supposed to attend but held up by German invasion)
• Devise the plan to attack Europe through the “soft underbelly” (Sicily, Italy)

Question 13

Tehran Conference

Answer 13

• Meeting between FDR/Churchill/Stalin
• Develop plan to open up 2nd front in Western Europe

Question 14

Failed policy of Appeasement

Answer 14

appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked