World War 2 Vocab- Part 2

Question 1

Rosie the Riveter

Answer 1

Fictional female factory worker; symbolized American women’s contribution to the war effort.

Question 2

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 2

Turning point battle in Eastern Europe during World War II

Question 3

Dwight Eisenhowe

Answer 3

Main U.S. general in the European theater of World War II; leader of Operation Overlord (D-Day)

Question 4

Operation Overlord (D-Day)

Answer 4

Turning point battle in Western Europe during World War II

Question 5

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 5

Germany’s last major counterattack against the Allies in Europe

Question 6

V-E Day

Answer 6

May 8, 1945 - The day after the Germans surrendered to the Allies, the Allies celebrated “Victory in Europe.”

Question 7

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 7

Main U.S. general in the Pacific theater of World War II

Question 8

Battle of Midway

Answer 8

Turning point battle in the Pacific during World War II

Question 9

Island Hopping

Answer 9

The U.S. strategy of capturing Japanese held islands in the Pacific.

Question 10

Navajo code talkers

Answer 10

Navajo Indians who transmitted messages for the U.S. in their own language.

Question 11

Kamikaze

Answer 11

Japanese suicide pilots who crashed planes into ships.

Question 12

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 12

Japanese cities that were bombed with atomic bombs in August 1945

Question 13

Holocaust

Answer 13

The systematic murder of Europe’s Jews and other minorities by the Nazis in the 1930s and ‘40s

Question 14

stereotype

Answer 14

A widely held but often false belief about a group of people based on their race, religion or nationality.