WWII

Question 1

A physicist who had escaped Germany to flee Nazi persecution and had informed the American government that Germany was racing to create a bomb similar to our atomic one.

Answer 1

Albert Einstein

Question 2

Allied Liberation of Paris

Answer 2

August 25, 1944

Question 3

One of the most infamous concentration camps in the Holocaust.

Answer 3

Auschwitz

Question 4

10,000 Americans died on this lethal march to the Japanese prison camps.

Answer 4

Bataan Death March

Question 5

This battle had some of the fiercest fighting of the entire war and lasted for over 6 months.

Answer 5

Battle of Guadalcanal

Question 6

Lasted for over 6 weeks and was a costly American victory. (Small island).

Answer 6

Battle of Iwo Jima

Question 6

The last, largest, and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific.

Answer 6

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Question 6

This battle took place in June 3-6, 1942.

Answer 6

Battle of Midway

Question 7

The bloodiest battle in the Pacific.

Answer 7

Battle of Okinawa

Question 8

The sonar-equipped battle that turned control of the Atlantic over to the Allies.

Answer 8

Battle of the Atlantic

Question 9

A critical battle waged in the Ardennes first in Belgium, and Northern France in which 200,000 German troops attacked only 80,000 Americans.

Answer 9

Battle of the Bulge

Question 10

An important American and Allied victory because it stopped the Japanese advance on Austrailia.

Answer 10

Battle of the Coral Sea

Question 11

A general who would lead the Allies to victories in Africa and push the Germans back into Europe.

Answer 11

Bernard Montgomery

Question 12

The Mexican farmers and railroad workers who came to work in the U.S. during WWII.

Answer 12

Braceros

Question 13

Admiral who led the United States’ navy in beginning the assault on the Japanese Empire.

Answer 13

Chester Nimitz

Question 14

Date of Hitler’s Suicide

Answer 14

April 30, 1945

Question 15

D-Day

Answer 15

June 6, 1944

Question 16

The general who commanded the troops on the Philippine Islands.

Answer 16

Douglas MacArthur

Question 17

The general who led the invasion force of U.S. and British soldiers in Operation Torch.

Answer 17

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 18

AKA the Desert Fox, the Nazi commander in Northern Africa.

Answer 18

Erwin Rommel

Question 19

Deliberate annihilation of an entire people.

Answer 19

Genocide

Question 20

The lead Allies strategist of Operation Overlord

Answer 20

George C. Marshall

Question 21

Led the U.S. forces in Italy and also emerged during the campaign in North Africa.

Answer 21

George S. Patton

Question 22

The vice president who was sworn into the office of President of the U.S. following Roosevelt’s death.

Answer 22

Harry S. Truman

Question 23

A Lt. Colonel of the U.S. Army’s 6th Rangers who as a force of over 100 men liberated a group of over 500 American POW’s.

Answer 23

Henry Mucci

Question 24

The forced relocation and imprisonment of a group of people such as the Japanese in WWII.

Answer 24

Internment

Question 25

Was quoted saying, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

Answer 25

Isoroku Yamamoto

Question 26

A Japanese term meaning “divine wind.”

Answer 26

Kamikaze

Question 27

An ambiguous Japanese term that can either mean “Withhold comment for the moment” or “ignore.”

Answer 27

Mokusatsu

Question 28

The general that led 150,000 allied troops that landed on Normandy.

Answer 28

Omar Bradley

Question 29

Corpse on beach with parts of a plane in the water. Trickery by the U.S.

Answer 29

Operation Mincemeat

Question 30

An invasion focused on France that involved blow-up balloon dummy machinery.

Answer 30

Operation Overlord

Question 31

November 1942, invasion of Northern Africa

Answer 31

Operation Torch

Question 32

Directed the Manhattan Project

Answer 32

Robert J. Oppenheimer

Question 33

A symbol of patriotic female defense workers in WWII

Answer 33

Rosie the Riveter

Question 34

Uses sound waves to detect underwater objects.

Answer 34

Sonar

Question 35

Nazi Germany’s systematic slaughter of European Jews.

Answer 35

The Holocaust

Question 36

A three-year effort by a group of scientists to create the atomic bomb.

Answer 36

The Manhattan Project

Question 37

British Royal Air Force

Answer 37

The RAF

Question 38

June of 1943, U.S. sailors attacked many Mexican-American youths who wore zoot-suits

Answer 38

Zoot-Suit Riots