World War II

Question 1

Leader of the Soviet Union

Answer 1

Joseph Stalin

Question 2

The United States entered World War II after Japan attacked a naval base in

Answer 2

Hawaii

Question 3

Japan began it’s policy of expansion by invading..

Answer 3

China

Question 4

Even before entering the war, the United States gave aid to..

Answer 4

Great Britain

Question 5

The Battle of Britain forced Germany to abandon…

Answer 5

plans to invade Britain

Question 6

appeasement

Answer 6

Giving into aggression to avoid war.

Question 7

Who made up the Allied Powers?

Answer 7

England, United States, France, China

Question 8

The mass slaughter of Jews in Europe is known as…

Answer 8

The Holocaust

Question 9

Define aggression.

Answer 9

Warlike act by one country against another one without just cause.

Question 10

Define scapegoat.

Answer 10

a person or group on whom to blame their problems.

Question 11

Define fascism.

Answer 11

rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism and blind loyalty to the state.

Question 12

Leader of Italy.

Answer 12

Benito Mussolini

Question 13

FDR withdrew American troops from Nicaragua and Haiti and canceled the Platt Amendment. Which isolationist policy is this an example of?

Answer 13

Good Neighbor Policy

Question 14

Define Neutrality Acts.

Answer 14

Banned arms sales or loans to countries at war. Warned Americans not to travel on ships of countries at war.

Question 15

Which countries made up the Axis Powers?

Answer 15

Germany, Italy, Japan, early in the war the Soviet Union

Question 16

Nazi-Soviet Pact.

Answer 16

Agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union not to attack each other. They also agreed to divide up Poland.

Question 17

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 17

Allowed the sales or loans of war materials to “any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.”

Question 18

Which fictional factory worker became a symbol of American women’s contribution to the war effort?

Answer 18

Rosie the Riveter

Question 19

How did the Allies open up a second front in Europe?

Answer 19

by staging the D-Day invasion off the coast of Normandy

Question 20

What was the U.S. strategy in the Pacific that involved American forces capturing Japanese-held islands and going around others?

Answer 20

island-hopping

Question 21

Who did the U.S. use in the Pacific so that the Japanese would not understand their radio messages?

Answer 21

Navajo code-talkers

Question 22

What was the name given to Japanese pilots that executed suicide missions?

Answer 22

kamikaze

Question 23

What was the name of the warning given to the Japanese of the Atomic Bomb, surrender or face destruction?

Answer 23

Potsdam Declaration

Question 24

What was the name given to the brutal treatment of prisoners in the Philippines?

Answer 24

Bataan Death March

Question 25

What did Hitler promise at the Munich Conference?

Answer 25

Hitler promised that Germany would not seek further territory once it had acquired Sudetenland.

Question 26

Define Blitzkrieg.

Answer 26

lighting war, swift attacks. Used by Germany against Poland.

Question 27

Who did Hitler and the Nazi’s use as a scapegoat for Germany’s problems?

Answer 27

Jews

Question 28

Which major battle opened up a second front for the allies to enter Germany from the west?

Answer 28

D-Day invasion, Operation Overlord

Question 29

How did the United States try to stop Japanese aggression towards China?

Answer 29

by imposing an embargo against them refusing to sell oil and scrap metal

Question 30

What were two actions taken by the United States to help the Allies?

Answer 30

Cash and Carry Plan and Lend-Lease