World War II

Question 1

Eastern Front

Answer 1

Areas on Russia’s Western borders where Germany and the Soviet Union fought.

Question 2

Western Front

Answer 2

Western Europe (border of Germany and France) where Britain and the US fought Germany.

Question 3

Allies

Answer 3

Group of nations opposing the Axis Powers including United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union

Question 4

Axis Powers

Answer 4

Germany, Italy, Japan, which formed an alliance in 1936

Question 5

Pacific Theater

Answer 5

An area in the Pacific Ocean where warfare took place between the Allies and Japan

Question 6

European Theater

Answer 6

Area of heavy fighting in Europe between the Axis Powers and the Allies

Question 7

Blitzkrieg

Answer 7

“Lightning war”; fast moving planes and tanks, followed by infantry forces. Designed to take enemies by surprise and quickly overwhelm them.

Question 8

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 8

A policy where the US aided its allies by transferring supplies and arms without compensation.

Question 9

Atlantic Charter

Answer 9

A declaration from Churchill and Roosevelt that outlined their hopes for a post-war world. Free trade among nations and right of people to choose their own government.

Question 10

Vichy

Answer 10

Southern part of France (after Germans took over north) governed by a puppet gov’t led by Phillippe Petain

Question 11

Genocide

Answer 11

Mass murder targeted at a specific group of people.

Question 12

Aryans

Answer 12

Name for languages/people who invaded India from Europe; Hitler used it to mean white people.

Question 13

Ghettos

Answer 13

Segregated Jewish areas

Question 14

Holocaust

Answer 14

The murder of millions of Jews during WW2

Question 15

Nuremburg Trials

Answer 15

Trials held by the Allies to bring German war criminals to justice.

Question 16

Atomic bomb

Answer 16

A bomb that derives its power from the release of nuclear energy

Question 17

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

Answer 17

Cities in Japan who were hit by the first deployed atomic bombs

Question 18

Kamikaze

Answer 18

Japanes suicide pilots. They would sink Allied ships by crash-diving their planes into them.

Question 19

Benito Mussolini

Answer 19

The fascist leader of Italy

Question 20

Josef Stalin

Answer 20

Totalitarian leader of the Soviet Union

Question 21

Adolf Hitler

Answer 21

Dictator of Germany, leader of the Nazi Party

Question 22

Harry Truman

Answer 22

33rd President of the United States, became president in 1945 following FDR’s death

Question 23

Winston Churchill

Answer 23

The prime minister of Britain during WW1

Question 24

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Answer 24

32nd president of the United States, president during WW2

Question 25

Hideki Tojo

Answer 25

Prime Minister and general of the Japanese Imperial Army during WW2

Question 26

Emperor Hirohito

Answer 26

124th Emperor of Japan during WW2

Question 27

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 27

American general who played a prominent role in the Pacific Theater of WW2

Question 28

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 28

Five-star general in WW2 (Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe), and 34th president

Question 29

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 29

French general and leader of Free France, 18th president of France