World War Two People and Events

Question 1

Mussolini Invades Ethiopia

Answer 1

1935

Question 2

Japan Invades China and Manchuria

Answer 2

1937

Question 3

Spanish Civil War Breaks out

Answer 3

1936

Question 4

Hitler Occupies Rhineland

Answer 4

1936

Question 5

Munich Conference

Answer 5

1938, Hitler is granted Sudetenland by British, French, and Italian leaders

Question 6

Germany Invades Poland

Answer 6

Sept. 1st 1939. Britain and France declare war on Germany

Question 7

Winter War

Answer 7

Winter 1939 Soviet Attack on Finland lasts for 4 months with no decisive Victory, Soviet Army shows weakness

Question 8

Germans take Denmark and Invade Norway

Answer 8

Springtime 1940

Question 9

Germans Swarm Belgium and Netherlands on way to France

Answer 9

May 10th 1940

Question 10

Hitler bombs Rotterdam

Answer 10

May 14th, 1940
Hitler bombed city in Denmark, paved the way for bombing of civilian targets that would become prevalent on all sides later in the war

Question 11

British Evacuation of Dunkirk

Answer 11

June 1940 British evacuates 300,000 British and French troops from Northern France

Question 12

French Government Surrenders

Answer 12

June 22nd 1940

Question 13

Battle of Britain

Answer 13

German bombing of Britain and aerial battles between Germans and RAF lasted from July 1940 to June 1941

Question 14

British Sea-Lanes become safe from U-Boats

Answer 14

1942

Question 15

British drive Italians from Ethiopia

Answer 15

1941

Question 16

Joint forces defeat Erwin Rommel’s forcing in African Desert War

Answer 16

1942, French North African colonies were also liberated from Nazi/Vichy rule. Americans played big part

Question 17

Pearl Harbor

Answer 17

December 7th, 1941. Peal Harbor bombed by Japanese. Americans under FDR subsequently declares war

Question 18

Japanese Dominate Pacific

Answer 18

1942 British Singapore falls to Japanese

Question 19

Americans stem Japanese victories in Pacific

Answer 19

1942 Battles of Midway and Coral Sea. 1943 Japanese victories end

Question 20

By Summer 1941 entire European Continent is under German control except the countries of

Answer 20

Spain, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland

Question 21

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 21

June 22nd 1941 Germans break non-aggression pact and invade Soviet Union

Question 22

First Nuclear Reactor Built

Answer 22

in America, group of American and European physicists (some of whom were refugees) led by Enrico Fermi create first nuclear reactor 1942

Question 23

A-Bomb tested successfully

Answer 23

July 1945 Americans led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, successfully test the A-Bomb in New Mexico

Question 24

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Japanese Surrender

Answer 24

August 6th, 9th, 14th

Question 25

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 25

November 1942 Russian forces encircle German troops at Stalingrad, fighting lasts until February 1943 until German commander breaks orders and surrenders to Soviet Army

Question 26

Russian Army clears Germany entirely from Soviet Territory

Answer 26

1944

Question 27

Soviet Army attacks Germany propr

Answer 27

January 1945

Question 28

Italy’s Government deposes Mussolini and surrenders

Answer 28

1943

Question 29

D-Day

Answer 29

June 6th 1944 American and Allied forces storm beach at Normandy establishing Allied foothold in Western Europe

Question 30

Allies liberate Paris, push toward Belgium

Answer 30

August 1944

Question 31

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 31

1944, Successful German attack on surging allied forces

Question 32

Allies push across the Rhine and overwhelm German forces

Answer 32

April 1945

Question 33

Soviet forces take Berlin

Answer 33

April 1945, Official on May 2nd.

Question 34

German Surrender by High Command

Answer 34

May 7th 1945

Question 35

Hitler commits suicide in bunker beneath Berlin

Answer 35

April 30th, 1945

Question 36

By year _____ Americans had taken most of Japanese holdings in Pacific

Answer 36

1944

Question 37

China, America, and Britain call on Japan to surrender

Answer 37

July 26th 1945

Question 38

Harry Truman becomes American President

Answer 38

April 1945

Question 39

Casablanca Conference

Answer 39

1943 Plan Italian Campaign, plan cross-Channel invasion, demand “unconditional surrender” by Axis, encourage unity of French authorities in London and Algiers

Question 40

Tehran Conference

Answer 40

1943 First meeting of the Big 3, plan the final strategy for the war against Nazi Germany and its allies, set date for Operation Overlord

Question 41

Yalta Conference

Answer 41

1945Final plans for defeat of Germany, postwar Europe plans, set date for United Nations Conference, conditions for the Soviet Union’s entry in war against Japan

Question 42

Potsdam Conference

Answer 42

1945 Potsdam Declaration demanding unconditional surrender of Japan, Potsdam Agreement on policy for Germany