World War II

Question 0

• Fascist dictator from 1922-1943

* Shot and killed by Italy’s partisan communist in 1945

Answer 0

Benito Mussolini

Question 1

• Ruler of the Nazi party party until 1945

* Committed suicide in a bunker in April of 1945

Answer 1

Adolf Hitler

Question 2

Emperor of Japan is wasn’t found guilty of war crimes

Answer 2

Hirohito

Question 3

Main political leader of Great Britain

Answer 3

Winston Churchill

Question 4

Military leader of Japan that was found guilty of war crimes

Answer 4

Hideki Tojo

Question 5

Communist leader who ruled the USSR from the 1920s-1953 and functioned as a dictator

Answer 5

Joseph Stalin

Question 6

President of the US for most of WWII (1933-1945)

Answer 6

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 7

Took over presidency of the U.S. after FDR died

Answer 7

Harry Truman

Question 8

Invaded by German forces through east Prussia and Slovakia

Answer 8

Poland

Question 9

Dropped a bomb on August 6, 1945 that caused many Japanese deaths

Answer 9

Horoshima

Question 10

Dropped a bomb on August 9, 1945 that caused many Japanese deaths

Answer 10

Nagasaki

Question 11

Doing something to please someone

Answer 11

Appeasement

Question 12

• Established on October 24, 1945 but plans were created in 1942
• Formed as a peace keeping coalition replacing the League of Nations
• Initial membership of 27
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 12

United Nations

Question 13

State sanctioned genocide that resulted in millions of Jewish deaths at the hands of Germany

Answer 13

Holocaust

Question 14

Systematic and purposeful destruction of racial, political, religious, or cultural group

Answer 14

Genocide

Question 15

Hitlers children that killed over 6 million Jews

Answer 15

Nazis

Question 16

December 7, 1941: Japanese kamikaze pilots attacked the U.S. naval base in Hawaii

Answer 16

Pearl Harbor