World War Two

Question 0

Winston Churchill

Answer 0

British Prime Minister
“Let’s fight for what’s good”
“Finest hour”

Question 1

Neville Chanberlain

Answer 1

British Prime Minister before CHURCHILL

-appeasement “just give Hitler what he wants, he will stop”

Question 2

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 2

Supreme commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces (scaef)

D-Day: HE BALANCED THE DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES OF DIFFERENT ALLIED LEADERS

Question 3

Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Answer 3

Japan commander of forces in IWO JIMA

Question 4

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 4

Evacuated the Philippines (leaves Americans behind) Commander of is Southern forces in Island hopping.

• reconquered Philippines
• Commander during Korean War

Question 5

Bernard Montgomery

Answer 5

Allied commander during the African campaign.

• El Alamine
• Tunisia
• land commander of D-Day invasion
• CAME UP WITH MARKET GARDEN

Question 6

Chester Nimitz

Answer 6

Commander of Central forces during ISLAND HOPPING CAMPAIGN

Question 7

George Partton

Answer 7

(Thought he was a women)

• invasion of Sicily
• “touch” “cobra”

–did not like Montgomery

Question 8

Friedrich Von Paulus

Answer 8

German commander of Stalingrad
(Hitler promised him help)

-TANK 3rd Army

Question 9

Bertram Ramsey

Answer 9

Commander of all NAVAL FORCES during D-Day

Question 10

Erwin Rommel

Answer 10

“Desert Fox”

• may have been involved in Valcury
• (pro Germany not pro Natzi)

Question 11

Joseph Stalin

Answer 11

USSR (communist leader)

“Iron fist”

Question 12

Harry Truman

Answer 12

Took over after FDR died

• shown all military secrets
• agreed to drop A Bomb

Question 13

Isoroku Yamamoto

Answer 13

Japanese who planed PEAR HARBOR

“If we do this, I give you 6 months”
-3 days off

Question 14

Germany Rulers the world

Answer 14

Conquered

• Poland (bombings 1.25 million)
• Norway (Iron Ore)
• Denmark
• France (2.5 million, took 3/5 of French land)

–Powerful Air Force Luftwaffe

-good until Stalingrad

Question 15

The Allied Mediterranean

Answer 15

(North Africa)
(Greece)
(Sicily)
(“Torch”)

Question 16

Hitlers Mistakes

Answer 16

Only on account of his own Genius

• -Georing in charge of Luftwaffe (did not come through on promises)
• –strop order in France
• —-Stalingrad
• ——confident in allied loss

Question 17

From Midway to Tokyo Bay

Answer 17

Midway- major turning point in Pacific

• Guadalcanal
• -Truk
• –Saipan
• —Philippines sea
• —-Guam
• —–Tinian
• ——IWO JIMA
• ——-Okinawa

Question 18

Day of Days

Answer 18

Eisenhower- supreme commander
Sir Berrttan Ramsey- Naval
Commander
Sir Trafford Mallory- air commander

Patton “fake” military in England

2. 8 million solder, airman, sailers
   - -11,000 planes
   - -6,935 Vessels
   - -built harbor

53,000 dead

-BEACH INVASIONS

Question 19

The Motherland War

Answer 19

The Motherland War
-original alliance with Hitler

“Let’s win this for the motherland”

• Stalingrad (turned Germany away)
• took Berlin
• Korea (started near end of WW 2)

Question 20

D-Day

Answer 20

Beaches

• Omaha
• Norway

Question 21

Pearl Harbor

Answer 21

Battleship bay

-different Japanese air strikes

Question 22

IWO JIMA

Answer 22

Mt. Serabotchi

-2 airfields

Question 23

Stalingrad

Answer 23

Two cites

–Volga River

Question 24

Operation Market garden

Answer 24

Different Bridges

Question 25

Tunisia

Answer 25

Patten

-Alcerine Pass