World War II (Key Terms)

Question 1

Eva Bruan

Answer 1

Hitlers Mistress

Question 2

Winston Churchill

Answer 2

Great Britian’s Prime Minister

Question 3

James Doolittle

Answer 3

leader of Tokyo raid/ suicide mission

Question 4

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 4

General who led the allied during operation torch

Question 5

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 5

Leader of the French government

Question 6

Henrich Himmler

Answer 6

head of the SS leader of holocaust

Question 7

Hideki Yoji

Answer 7

Militarism who heads Japan’s military government

Question 8

Hirohito

Answer 8

The emperor of Japan

Question 9

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 9

Commander of the Pacific theater who promises he will return for his men.

Question 10

Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 10

A chief scientist who developed two types of bombs

Question 11

Erwin Rommel

Answer 11

German General aka the desert fox

Question 12

Franklin D Roosevelt

Answer 12

The President of the US during WWII

Question 13

Joseph Stalin

Answer 13

Dictators of the Soviet Union

Question 14

Paul Tibbets Jr.

Answer 14

He piloted the Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan.

Question 15

Harry S Truman

Answer 15

Vice president who took over for FDR when he died/ decided to use atomic bomb.

Question 16

Adolf Hitler

Answer 16

crazed dictator of Germany who led the Nazi and hated certain groups of people.

Question 17

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Answer 17

German protestant pastor who gave his life for helping Jews

Question 18

Corrie Ten Boom

Answer 18

Dutch Christians who hide jews.

Question 19

Anne frank

Answer 19

Jewish girl who wrote a diary

Question 20

Isoroku Yamamoto

Answer 20

Admiral of the Japanese navy plane attacks

Question 21

Auschwitz

Answer 21

location of the death camps

Question 22

Blitz

Answer 22

London attacked for 57 consecutive days

Question 23

Blitzkrieg

Answer 23

Invasion of Europe by Germany

Question 24

Bushito

Answer 24

Japanese warrior’s code: fight to the death or commit suicide

Question 25

Convoy

Question 26

Oun Kirk

Answer 26

Amphibious operation that mordaciously rescued the British and French armies.

Question 27

Enola Gay

Answer 27

plane that dropped the atomic bomb

Question 28

Hiroshima

Answer 28

The Japanese city that was targeted witht he atomic bomb

Question 28

Holocaust

Answer 28

The mass genocide of Jews and "undesirables" by the Nazis

Question 28

Island hopping

Answer 28

conquer island one loyalty in order to get close enough o launch bombing attacks.

Question 28

Hitler Youth

Answer 28

Group of young, brainwashed Germans that were final; loyal to hitler

Question 29

Kamikaze

Answer 29

Japanese suicide planed used in desperation.

Question 30

Kristallnacht

Answer 30

"Night of broken glass" program organized massacre against German Jewish community.

Question 31

Lebensraum

Answer 31

living space for German people

Question 32

Lend Lease Program

Answer 32

The US could lend lease arms or other supplies to any country

Question 33

Manhattan Project

Answer 33

USA secrets atomic bombs program

Question 34

Navaho

Answer 34

Native- Americans who took advantage of their complicated language to send secret messages

Question 35

Nisei

Answer 35

Japanese Americans

Question 36

Nuremberg Laws

Answer 36

Anti-Jewish laws in Germany

Question 37

Pearl Harbor

Answer 37

Navy base in Hawaii that was brutally bombed by Japan.

Question 38

Radar

Question 39

Swing Kids

Question 40

Third Reich