WW2

Question 1

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the Imperial Forces of Japan…” was the opening lines given to Congress by

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FDR

Question 2

Required all males between the ages of 21 and 36 to register for military service in WWII.

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Selective training and service act

Question 3

Eventually 16 million Americans would serve in the military in WWII, they called themselves

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GI’S

Question 4

What car company built a huge new factory to build B-24 Liberator bombers?

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Ford

Question 5

What Carried supplies and troops

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Liberty ships

Question 6

What was grown in the U.S. to replace the food sent to Europe for soldiers?

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Victory gardens

Question 7

The Allied Forces dwing World War II were

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USA, GBR, FR and USSR

Question 8

Formed the basis for the nited Nations?

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Atlantic charter

Question 9

What was used to sink United States merchants ships within sight of the United States coast?

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U-boats

Question 10

What Pact did Hitler violate when he attacked the Soviet Union?

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Non-aggression pact

Question 11

Name the thee battles that are considered the tuming points in WWII.

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Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of Midway and D-day(Battle of Normandy)

Question 12

The Allied soldiers invaded the coast of France to retake it from the Germans is known as and occurred on

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June 6, 1944

Question 13

The last major German offensive during WWII was

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Battle of the bulge

Question 14

Discrimination against jew is

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Anti-semitism

Question 15

Nazi Germany’s murder of 6 million Jews is known as

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The Holocaust

Question 16

When German’s destroyed every Jewish church and shop is known as (Night of Broken Glass)

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Krisstallnacht

Question 17

Places where political prisoners were held is a

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Concentration Camp

Question 18

This place was an area of 16 city blocks where 400,000 Polish Jews were confined.

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Warsaw ghetto

Question 19

A 1942 Nazi meeting which determined to murder all the Jews in Europe is the

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Wannsee conference

Question 20

The murder of an entire race of people is

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Genocide

Question 21

Facilities created by the Nazi’s to murder Jews and other “undesireables” is identified as

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Death camps

Question 22

Former Nazi leaders were put on trial after WWII for crimes against humanity are know as the

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Nuremberg Trials

Question 23

The code name of D-Day was

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Operation overlord

Question 24

Which American general vowed, “I shall retum” as he was evacuated from the Philippines?

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General Douglas MacArthur

Question 25

25,000 U.S. and Filipino soldiers died when Japan took the Philippines from us is

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Bataan Death march

Question 26

What document states all P.O.W.'s (Prisoners of War) must be treated humanely and protected.

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Geneva convention

Question 27

A battle fought between Japanese and American aircraft 70 miles away from aircraft camiers. It was north of Australia.

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Battle of Coral sea

Question 28

The first battle of the Allied Invasion of Western Europe was the

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Battle of normandy

Question 29

What battle was Americans first experience with jungle warfare?

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Battle of Guadalcanal

Question 30

What battle was the greatest naval battle in world history?

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battle of leyte gulf

Question 31

What was a military strategy of selectively attacking key enemy held islands and bypassing. others called?

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Island hopping

Question 32

Japanese suicide planes were known as

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Kamikaze

Question 33

The first battle the Japanese pilots crashed their planes into U.S. warships was the

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The battle of leyte gulf

Question 34

25,000 American casualties occurred on this island east of Japan.

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Iwo jima

Question 35

The last obstacle to an allied invasion of Japan was

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Okinawa

Question 36

The last obstacle to an allied invasion of Japan was

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Okinawa

Question 37

Develoned the atom bomb

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The manhattan project

Question 38

The two cities the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on were

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 39

Who led a "raid" with aircraft bombing Tokyo which, "surprised" many Japanese citizens?

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Colonel James “Jimmy” Doolittle

Question 40

A U.S. Agency created to help people threatened by the Nazi's was called?

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War Refugee Board

Question 41

Founder of the Fascist Party in Italy and was also known as Il Duce was

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Benito Mussolini

Question 42

To confine or imprison describes the U.S. policy toward Japanese Americans who were placed in what camps?

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Internment camps

Question 43

U.S. citizens bom to Japanese parents are called

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Nisei

Question 44

The worlds foremost scientist was

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Albert Einstein

Question 45

Which man ran the scientific aspect of the Manhatten Project?

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 46

Conducted hond experiments on the people in the concentration camps

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Joseph Mengela

Question 47

The German dictator and leader of the Nazi Paity was also known as Der Fuhrer

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Adolf Hitler

Question 48

Who authorized the use of atomic weapons on Japan?

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Harry S. Truman

Question 49

Controlling the amount of food, fuel, and rubber that a person could get during World War II is best described as

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Rationing

Question 50

This program brought 200,000 immigrant workers from Mexico to.work on American fans during World War II.

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Bracero program

Question 51

The Supreme Court case that challenged the U.S. policy of inteunent of Japanese Americans during World War II was

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Korematsu Vs USA

Question 52

This wit won more medals during World War Il for heroisin that any unit in military history.

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442nd regimental combat team

Question 53

The commander of the Allied invasion of North Africa was

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General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 54

This American General was kaown as "Blood and Guts"

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General George S. Patton

Question 55

A political union between Germany and Austria was called

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Anschluss

Question 56

U.S. naval commander in the Pacific war

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Chester Nimitz

Question 57

Blitzkrieg means

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lightning war

Question 58

What form of government emphasized the importance of the nation or an ethnic group and the importance of the leader?

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Fascism

Question 59

A form of Fascism shaped by Hitler's fanatical ideas is

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Nazism