WW2

Question 1

Axis powers

Answer 1

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 2

Allies

Answer 2

Soviet Union, United Kingdom, United States

Question 3

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 3

France

Question 4

Adolf Hitler

Answer 4

Germany

Question 5

Benito Mussolini

Answer 5

Italy

Question 6

Emperor Hirohito

Answer 6

Japan

Question 7

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 7

United Kingdom (#1)

Question 8

Winston Churchill

Answer 8

United Kingdom (#2)

Question 9

Franklin Roosevelt

Answer 9

United States (#1)

Question 10

Harry Truman

Answer 10

United States (#2)

Question 11

List the three countries that followed policies of ruthless aggression

Answer 11

Italy, germany, Japan

Question 12

Where did Japan attack in 1931 and how did the League of Nations respond?

Answer 12

They protested but took no action. Monchuria in China

Question 13

In what way did Hitler break the Treaty of Versailles? (#2)

Answer 13

Sent troops into the Rhineland region of Western Germany

Question 14

In September 1938 where did European leaders meet to ease the crisis? What were France and Britain’s goals at this meeting?

Answer 14

Munich, Germany
Hoped to appease Hitler to avoid war

Question 15

What is appeasement?

Answer 15

A policy of giving into aggression in order to avoid war

Question 16

What were the stipulations of the US neutrality act of 1935?

Answer 16

To keep us at peace
Forbade the president from selling arms, making loans, or giving assistance to any other Nation involved in war.

Question 17

When did Nazi troops invade poland?

Answer 17

September 1st, 1939

Question 18

What happened two days after Hitler’s invasion of poland?

Answer 18

Britain and Friends declared war on Germany, world war II began

Question 19

After Germany accepted France surrender what country was left to fight the nazis?

Answer 19

Britain

Question 20

Who is the British prime Minister of Great Britain after Neville chamberlain?

Answer 20

Winston Churchill

Question 21

During the Battle of britain, Hitler ordered what type of assault

Answer 21

Air assault

Question 22

Did Hitler ever invade britain?

Answer 22

No, he abandoned all plans to invade Britain

Question 23

Where did the first American ground troops land, and who was their commander?

Answer 23

North Africa
Dwight d Eisenhower

Question 24

Where did the Japanese attack after Pearl harbor? ( Name 3)

Answer 24

Hong Kong, Malaya, Burma, Guam, Wake Island, Dutch East Indies, Solomon Islands, Thailand

Question 25

Name the general who commanded the Filipino / American Force on the Philippine islands of Luzan

Answer 25

Douglas MacArthur

Question 26

Battle of Midway verse Battle of the Coral Sea All fighting was done by planes launched off aircraft carriers After this battle Japan's Navy no longer will The Pacific Occurred in May 1942 Occurred in June 1942

Answer 26

Coral Sea Midway Coral Sea Midway

Question 27

Name the city and country that the allied forces invaded in 1944

Answer 27

Normandy, France

Question 28

Who commanded the landing involving thousands of ships and aircrafts?

Answer 28

General Eisenhower

Question 29

How many Normandy beaches did the Allies land and what were their names? List 3

Answer 29

5 Omaha, utah, juno, sword, gold

Question 30

Name the beach where allied forces met a fierce German defense

Answer 30

Omaha Beach

Question 31

Describe how the Allies were able to defeat the Germans in the Battle of the bulge.

Answer 31

Allies had additional trips Germany was running out soilders Germany was running out of fuel

Question 32

What happened to Germany in January 1945 (East and west)

Answer 32

East- a huge Soviet entered Germany West- Western allies entered

Question 33

Date FDR dies He dies from what condition Replaced by

Answer 33

April 12th 1945 Stroke Harry s Truman

Question 34

V-E Day definition and date

Answer 34

Victory in Europe May 8th 1945

Question 35

Define the strategy of island hopping

Answer 35

Each island taken as a stepping stone towards Japan

Question 36

Describe code talkers and their significance

Answer 36

Navajo soldiers use their own language that no one else could understand to send messages

Question 37

Iwo Jima date and death toll

Answer 37

February 1945 6,000 deaths

Question 38

Define kamikaze

Answer 38

Suicide pilots crashed airplanes into American trips

Question 39

How did Kamikaze impact our war planners

Answer 39

It convinced Americans the only at full scale invasion of Japan swim Island would force a surrender

Question 40

What was the secret Truman learned about in July

Answer 40

The atomic bomb

Question 41

What does V-J day stand for & date

Answer 41

The day that Japan surrendered victory over Japan September. 2 1945

Question 42

How many volunteers and drafty served in the US military during world war II.

Answer 42

15 million

Question 43

What did US factory shift from producing

Answer 43

From consumer goods to military goods

Question 44

What did the war production board do?

Answer 44

It was a government agency that supervised change and set goals for production.

Question 45

The government imposed **blank** to conserve resources. Americans were issued rationing **blank** to purchase goods like **blank**.

Answer 45

Rations coupons coffee, sugar, mead, gas, tires

Question 46

Millions of women went to work and the **blank** and **blank**.

Answer 46

Factories, shipyards

Question 47

A fictional character, **blank** became a symbol of all women who worked in the war effort.

Answer 47

Rosie the Riveter

Question 48

Japanese Americans lost their freedom and had to sell their **blank**, even though there was not single document case of **blank**.

Answer 48

Possessions, disloyalty by a Japanese American

Question 49

Because African Americans face discrimination, some leaders pointed out that...

Answer 49

Well the nation was fighting for a democracy overseas, it still permitted and injustice at home.

Question 50

Braceros

Answer 50

Mexican laborers

Question 51

Well newspapers blamed the mexican-americans for the **blank blank blank**, Eleanor Roosevelt argued that they were a result of **blank blank** against Mexicans.

Answer 51

Zoot suit riots, longstanding discrimination