World War II

Question 1

Who was the leader of Italy?

Answer 1

Benito Mussolini

Question 2

Who was the leader of Germany?

Answer 2

Adolf Hitler

Question 3

What were the 3 major political parties during this time?

Answer 3

The Fascist Party, the Nazi Party, and the Communist Party

Question 4

30,000 ______, also called the Black Shirts, Lead the March on _____.

Answer 4

Fascists

Rome

Question 5

Communists were blamed for the _______ fire.

Answer 5

Reichstag

Question 6

The German air force was known as ________.

Answer 6

The Luftwaffe

Question 7

What started World War II?

Answer 7

The invasion of Poland.

Question 8

What book did Hitler write?

Answer 8

Mein Kampf

Question 9

Once Germany invaded France, the southern part was called ______ France and was a puppet state.

Answer 9

Vichy

Question 10

Winston Churchill was the ______ ______ of Great Britain.

Answer 10

Prime minister

Question 11

What strategy did Hitler use to conquer Poland?

Answer 11

Blitzkrieg or lightning war

Question 12

What happened at Dunkirk?

Answer 12

All types of navel boat were sent to rescue soldiers. The ships sailed through the English Channel.

Question 13

What country did Hitler invade, even though he had signed an agreement with their leader.

Answer 13

Soviet Russia or U.S.S.R.

Question 14

What American navel base was bombed by the Japanese?

Answer 14

Pearl Harbor

Question 15

What was the significance of Doolittle’s Raid?

Answer 15

It showed that Japan was vulnerable to attack.

Question 16

Which battle stopped Japan’s expansion southward?

Answer 16

The Battle of the Coral Sea

Question 17

What was the significance of the Battle of Midway?

Answer 17

It turned the tide of war in the Pacific.

Question 18

What happened at the Battle of Guadalcanal?

Answer 18

The Japanese tried to build and air base but the Allied troops destroyed the progress. Allies won and the Japanese abandoned the island.

Question 19

What did Douglas MacArthur give the idea of?

Answer 19

Island-hopping

Question 20

What two Japanese cities were nuclear bombed?

Answer 20

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 21

What country did Allied troops invade from Africa?

Answer 21

Italy

Question 22

What are the two important concentration camps?

Answer 22

Auschwitz and Dachau

Question 23

What did the Battle of Stalingrad do for the Soviets?

Answer 23

They were able to push the Germans back westward.

Question 24

What Allied invasion also known as Operation Overlord?

Answer 24

D-Day

Question 25

What two general’s helped in defeating the German general Erwin Rommel?

Answer 25

Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Bernard Montgomery.