WW2 Test

Question 1

Women did all roles during war except…

Answer 1

fighting

Question 2

What do the 1st 2nd and 3rd Neutrality Acts say

Answer 2

1st- no selling weapons to any country at war
2nd- you can sell non military goods on cash carry basis
3rd- you can sell weapons on cash carry basis

Question 3

NYE committee

Answer 3

Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota

• revealed that enormous profits were made during the WWI by American financiers and munitions makers
• these groups forced America into WWI
• Congress was prompted to act!

Question 4

What are the V1 and V2

Answer 4

German missles

Question 5

Where were the nazi concentration camps located at

Answer 5

poland

Question 6

how many jews died

Answer 6

6 million

Question 7

what was guatecanal known for

Answer 7

1st victory in the pacific

Question 8

What happended at mt. sarabaki?

Answer 8

• 23k US troops died to take iwo jima

- victory marked by raising us flag atop mt. sarabaki

Question 9

What were the 2 names of the bombs dropped on japan

Answer 9

Fat Man- Nagasaki- Uranium

Little Boy- Hiroshima- Plutonium

Question 10

What was the turning point in pacific

Answer 10

battle of midway

Question 11

Battle of Coral Sea

Answer 11

• off the coast of Australia
• -aerial battle between planes from carriers(1st time ever)
• no clear winner, but the US did block the invasion of Australia

Question 12

Doolittles Raid on Tokyo

Answer 12

• Lt Doolittle led 16 bombers to tokyo and other cities

- attack did little damage, but boosted american morale by showing japan we will fight

Question 13

Baton Death March

Answer 13

• FDR orders McAuthur to australia
• phillipines fall
• POWs forced to march 60 miles

Question 14

Which island in pacific did japan not control

Answer 14

Hawaii?

Question 15

Which island in pacific did japan not control

Answer 15

Hawaii?

Question 16

what was the object of the D-day invasion

Answer 16

capture the city of caen

Question 17

what was Atlantic wall

Answer 17

The Atlantic Wall was an extensive system of coastal defence and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom

Question 18

what was the name of the d-day operation

Answer 18

overlord

Question 19

how many germans were killed in battle of ardens

Answer 19

80k-100k

Question 20

What battle was lexington and yorktown sunk in

Answer 20

Lexington- coral sea

Yorktown- battle of midway

Question 21

Who was at the Yalta Conference and what was discussed

Answer 21

• FDR, Churchill, Stalin
• discussed the future of Europe following the defeat of nazi germany
• polish question
• future of germany and the “declaration on liberated europe”
• conditions of entry for soviet union into war with japan

Question 22

Who was at the Potsdam Conference and what was discussed

Answer 22

• Attlee
• Stalin
• Truman
• said they would govern germany together
• fell apart soon after agreements were made

Question 23

Montacasino

Answer 23

4 assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II
-INTENT: to breakthrough to Rome

Question 24

Who was the president of the Munich Pact

Answer 24

Chamberlain & Daladier // September 1938; Britain & France appease Hitler by giving him the Sudetenland w/o a single shot fired

Question 25

Informal surrender date of japan

Answer 25

August 15, 1945

Question 26

When was VE day

Answer 26

May 8, 1945

Question 27

Allies

Answer 27

USA Britain China Soviet Union

Question 28

Axis Powers

Answer 28

Japan Italy Nazi Germany

Question 29

WPB

Answer 29

``` War Production Board convert peacetime industries to produce war materials -cars to building bomber planes -By 1944, American production levels doubled those of all the Axis powers together -1945 -300,000 planes -80,000 landing crafts -100,000 armored cars & tanks -6 million rifles -41 Billion rounds of ammunition ```

Question 30

FDR Freedom Speech

Answer 30

U.S. & Britain stand for:(FDR gave the speech) - Freedom of Speech - Freedom of Worship - Freedom from Want - Freedom from Fear - FDR proposed it

Question 31

Rommel

Answer 31

German commander at the Atlantic Wall - led the Allied troops in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers in North Africa whom chased the Afrika Korps - commits suicide after Hitler

Question 32

Patton

Answer 32

led troops In the Battle of Normandy

Question 33

William Freidman

Answer 33

US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) -broke the Japanese code in 1940

Question 34

Justice James F. Byrnes

Answer 34

Byrnes who shared information with the new president Truman on the atomic bomb project - head of the Office of War Mobilization - left the Supreme Court to head Roosevelt's Office of Economic Stabilization, - Truman appointed Byrnes as Secretary of State on July 3, 1945

Question 35

Mussilini

Answer 35

- established the Fascist Party in Italy - establishing a totalitarian regime in Italy - stressed nationalism - won the support of the people and Italian king appointed him the head of government - gained fascist control of Italian life - made Italy a totalitarian state - "Black Shirts"

Question 36

Stalin

Answer 36

leader of the Soviet Union - last name: man of steel - took control of (Russia) bc of its establishment as a communist state - he created a model communist state - abolished all private owned farms with large gov farms - made agricultural and industrial growth the economic goals of the SU - established a totalitarian government - millions died under Stalin (8 mill-10)

Question 37

Hirohito

Answer 37

- emperor of japan | - wanted to reduce the reliance on foreign imports so they took china to get resources

Question 38

Churchill

Answer 38

Chamberlain political rival in GB

Question 39

Churchill

Answer 39

Chamberlain political rival in GB

Question 40

Eisenhower

Answer 40

responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942-43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45 from the Western Front.

Question 41

Daladiere

Answer 41

French premier that signed the Munich agreement

Question 42

Selective Service Training Act

Answer 42

August 1990, - first peacetime draft in US history - required all American men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register for military service - FDR signs the act

Question 43

Lend Lease Act

Answer 43

1940-Britain ran out of money to wage war - act would allow US to lend or lease arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the US" - US could send arms to Britain if Britain promised to return them or pay for them after the war - US contributed over $50 billion to the act - US should become the "Great Arsenal Act of Democracy"

Question 44

Atlantic Charter

Answer 44

- 1941 | - declaration of principles in which the US and Great Britain set forth their goals in opposing the Axis powers

Question 45

Wind Talkers

Answer 45

- U.S. needed a code to communicate that the Japanese couldn't break - U.S. Intelligence bet the Japanese never bothered to learn about the Native American languages - another name: code talkers - mostly Navajo - Native Americans in the Military bc of this

Question 46

What are the Nuremberg trials

Answer 46

- tried all nazis who were involved in the execution of jews