World war II

Question 0

What is the idea that one race or group of people is better than other races?

Answer 0

Racism

Question 1

What is a ruler who has total control of a country?

Answer 1

Dictator

Question 2

Get ready to fight

Answer 2

Mobilize

Question 3

Where Japanese Americans were held during WWII

Answer 3

Internment camp

Question 4

Large ship that carries planes fAr from land

Answer 4

Aircraft bomber

Question 5

Where Hitler sent the Jewish people

Answer 5

Concentration camp

Question 6

Name the three countries known as the Axis Powers.

Answer 6

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 7

Who blamed the Jewish people for Germany’s problems?

Answer 7

Hitler

Question 8

What countries were known as the Allied Powers.

Answer 8

United States, Great Britain, France! Soviet Union

Question 9

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union?

Answer 9

Stalin

Question 10

Stalin made a secret promise to ———- that they would not attack each other.

Answer 10

Hitler

Question 11

When did WWII begin?

Answer 11

When Germany invaded Poland

Question 12

Which president wanted to stay out of the war, although he did send supplies and equipment to the British ?

Answer 12

Franklin d Roosevelt

Question 13

When did America enter WWII?

Answer 13

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7 1941

Question 14

Name some changes that happened in America during WWII.

Answer 14

Factories switched from producing consumer goods to making war supplies.

Women and African Americans went to work in factories.

Women took jobs that only men had done before and were nicknamed Rosie the Riveter.

Many items were rationed such as sugar, meat and gasoline.

People planted victory gardens.

Question 15

Who was the prime minister of Britain and gave hope to millions as they listened to his radio speeches?

Answer 15

Winston Churchill

Question 16

What was the name of a group of African American pilots who flew many successful missions over Italy ?

Answer 16

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 17

What and when was D-Day?

Answer 17

June 6, 1944 - Date of a planned military operation- On that day, Allied forces invaded northern France on the beaches of Normandy. Within 10 days, approximately 1,000,000 Allied troops had landed in France.

Question 18

May 8, 1945 was known as ——–

Answer 18

V E Day (Victory in Europe)

Question 19

In the Pacific, the Allies used a plan called island hopping and captured the island of ——–

Answer 19

Iwo Jima

Question 20

What was a major victory in the Pacific for the Allies?

Answer 20

Midway

Question 21

Who was used to send secret codes that the Japanese were never able to break?

Answer 21

Navajo code talkers using the Navajo language

Question 22

What US president decide to drop 2 atomic bombs so that US soldiers’ lives would not be lost with a normal invasion?

Answer 22

Harry Truman

Question 23

Where were the 2 atomic bombs dropped in hopes to end the war?

Answer 23

Japan (Hiroshima, Nagasaki)

Question 24

Who was the emperor of Japan who surrendered the war after the atomic bombs were dropped ?

Answer 24

Hirohito

Question 25

What is August 14, 1945 known as?

Answer 25

V J Dat (victory in Japan)

Question 26

What do we call the mass murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis?

Answer 26

The holocaust

Question 27

During WWII, the US and other allies began a new international organization called the ———-to keep world peace.

Answer 27

United Nations (UN)