World War II

Question 1

Hitler’s rise to power:

Answer 1

• Germany
• 1919 Nazi Party
• anti-communist
  -became Chancellor in 1933
  -anti-semetic

Question 2

Mussolini’s rise to power:

Answer 2

• came into power because the people needed a leader
• lots of inflation and unemployment
• Hitler’s idol
• 1919 fascist party

Question 3

Stalin’s rise to power:

Answer 3

• took over after Lenin in 1924
• communist
• 25 million (including military officers) killed
• we do NOT like him

Question 4

Tojo’s rise to power:

Answer 4

made all decisions for Japan because Hirohito liked him and that is just what they do

Question 5

Emporer Hirohito

Answer 5

• worshiped as a god
• people willing to die for him
• does nothing with the war

Question 6

Appeasement

Answer 6

Chamberlain says “pinky promise you won’t do anything bad anymore” to Hitler; clearly does not work

Question 7

Blitzkrieg

Answer 7

Sept. 1st, 1939
- violence from invading
- football play “Blitz” means send everyone forward
- full power ahead, every person coming into Poland
- named “Lightning War”

Question 8

Battle of Britain

Answer 8

Britain wins!
- completely air battle
- air force “Luftwaffe” bomb Great Britain

Question 9

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 9

Aug. 23rd, 1942 - Feb. 2nd, 1943
- Nazi Germany & Allies vs Soviet Union
- single biggest and bloodiest battle in warfare
- was an air raid that turned into house-to-house combat
- marked the first time Germany admitted defeat
- Joseph Goebbels introduced “total war”; claim all resources and total destruction
- crushed German morale, boosted Soviet morale\
- people started to see Hitler’s defeat as inevitable

Question 10

Eisenhower

Answer 10

Supreme Allied Commander of the European Theater
- makes plan to invade Normandy
- largest invasion force in history
- planned to go in May, ended up going in June (6-6-44)

Question 11

D-Day

Answer 11

June 6, 1944
- also called Operation Overload (Overlord?)
- GB and Canada take 3 Normandy beaches, US takes 2
- goal was to overpower them with men
- Germany and France fortified their beaches
- 130-150,000 dead first couple days, half of them American
- by D+30, 3 million troops dead

Question 12

Yalta Conference
Who are the Big 3?

Answer 12

FDR, Churchill, Stalin
- leaders meet to speak about the future of their nations post-war

Question 13

V-E Day

Answer 13

Victory in Europe
- marked the end of WWII in Europe

Question 14

Pearl Harbor

Answer 14

Dec. 7th, 1941
- Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
- complete surprise
- part of reason why we joined the war
(her Blooket says we joined because of the Lusitania)

Question 15

MacArthur

Answer 15

Supreme Allied Commander of the Pacific Theater
- “I shall return”
- very good general

Question 16

Kamikaze

Answer 16

• pilots willing to go the full mile
• Japanese that will and did use their plane as the final shot in the war
• suicide flyers

Question 17

Bataan Death March

Answer 17

• troops forced to march through their country, the Phillipines
• absolute tragedy
• march through harsh conditions without the right gear
  -beheaded, killed, beaten

Question 18

Navajo Code Talkers

Answer 18

Native American soldiers
- tasked with creating a code with their language as the basis
- a major cause of our success
- the enemy couldn’t decode our messages

Question 19

Iwo Jima

Answer 19

• worst battle in Marine Corps history
• named after the sulfuric mountain on the island
• goal was to take Suribachi

Question 20

Hiroshima

Answer 20

Aug. 6th, 1945
- “Little Boy”
- dropped at 8:15am
- Explodes at 2,000 ft. above ground
- we tried to warn the Japanese before it happened
- 15,000 tons (30 million lbs.) of TNT

Question 21

Nagasaki

Answer 21

Aug. 9th, 1945
- “Fat Man”
- dropped at 11:51am
- created 200 mph winds
- 7,050 * F

Question 22

The aftermath of nuclear bombs

Answer 22

• radiation affected people years after
• countries across the ocean were seeing and feeling the effects
• 12,000 people died on top of the 80,000 initial
• 5 days later, V-J day happened

Question 23

V-J Day

Answer 23

Aug. 14, 1945
- Victory against Japan
- US celebrates our victory against them

Question 24

Anti-semitism

Answer 24

hostility towards Jewish people; Hitler very big anti-semitist

Question 25

Genocide

Answer 25

the intentional murder of a large number of people/groups with the purpose of wiping them out

Question 26

Concentration camps

Answer 26

• upwards of 44,000 concentration camps (according to Google)
• people thought of them as labor camps, instead they were torture
• families split up
• many people arrived by train

Question 27

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 27

Nazi soldiers are tried for their war crimes
- set the precedent that people are guilty for their actions, even in war
- the courts had to figure out how guilty the people were; some were only photographers so they weren’t inflicting the torture but they didn’t stop it

Question 28

FDR

Answer 28

• # 32created New Deals
• helped get America out of Depression and back on their feet
• held out his hand to the drowning people
• in April of 1945, he dies in office
• was in power for 13 years, died in the start of his 4th term

Question 29

Truman

Answer 29

• # 33
• took over after FDR left (his vice prez)
• 12 days in office, he was told of the Manhatten Project
• “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen”

Question 30

Propaganda

Answer 30

using emotion over fact to get people to sway to their side

Question 31

Rationing

Answer 31

setting a limit on what and how much people can buy, usually put in when people need to “contribute to the war effort.”

Question 32

Manhattan Project

Answer 32

secret program to create atomic bombs
- J. Robert Oppenheimer