WWII 2

Question 0

Harry Truman

Answer 0

Approved bombing of Japan

Question 1

President Hoover

Answer 1

Became president 8 months before the Great Depression

Couldn’t overcome the economic destruction

Question 2

FDR

Answer 2

President during the Great Depression and WWII. He convicted congress to declare war in Japan after Pearl Harbor

Question 3

Battle of Britain Teams

Answer 3

British Royal Air Force vs. German Luftwaffe

Question 4

Battle of Britain

Answer 4

Blitz- German Luftwaffe bombs civilians in London and other major cities during summer of 1940

Question 5

Battle do Britain 2

Answer 5

Airing class crucifers- find safety in tube Stations
Wealthy class- leave cities for homes in the country
-Citizens owe live to the RAF

Question 6

Great Depression

Answer 6

Stock market crashed bc buying stock on margin, overproduction of goods, & under consumption due to lagging wages.

Question 7

Great Depression results (4)

Answer 7

High unemployment
High inflates toon
Home and farm foreclosures
Bussines failure

Question 8

Great Depression cause of WWII

Answer 8

People looked up to leaders and lead to totalitarianism

Question 9

General Patton

Answer 9

(Old blood and guts)
US general serving under Eisenhower during WWII. Decoy general on dday do describe hitlers army to think invasion of France would come at Calais. Responsible for liberation of France

Question 10

Halts conference People

Answer 10

Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in feb 1945

Question 11

Yalta conference discussion

Answer 11

Post war

• United Nations
• Division of Germany and Berlin
• Promise to defeat the Japanese
• Free elections

Question 12

Potsdam conference People

Answer 12

Churchill, Truman, and Stalin August 15 1945

Question 13

Potsdam conference Discussion 4

Answer 13

Finalized plans for occupation of Europe
Ultimatum to Japan- demanding unconditional surrender
Tensions between Stalin and Truman begin over the future of Europe
Stalin has not begun free elections as promised

Question 14

Kamikaze

Answer 14

were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than was possible with conventional attacks

Question 15

P 51

Answer 15

the first U.S. fighter airplane to push its nose over Europe after the fall of France. Then called the P-51, it scurried back and forth across the channel, taking on the best the Axis could put in the air. Mustangs met and conquered every German plane from the early Junkers to the sleek, twin-jet Messerschmitt 262s.

Question 16

Midway (3)

Answer 16

US ambush Japanese at midway Island
Ends control of the pacific US no offensive
Island hopping

Question 17

LON

Answer 17

And organization created at the end of WII with the goal of maintains lasting peace. Didn’t have authority to enforce its decisions

Question 18

U boat

Answer 18

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Question 19

D Wight Eisenhower

Answer 19

Supreme allied commander of allied forced in Europe and North Africa.
Responsible for allied forces dying operation torch
All allied generals in Europe and North Africa reported to Eisenhower.

Question 20

Isolationist

Answer 20

Was the foreign policy if the US during 20’s and 30s l. Meant it would not get involved in European problems.
Axis powers were encouraged to take more risks and aggressive action knowing that the US would not get involved to stop them

Question 21

United Nations

Answer 21

plan to form world organization to maintain peace

Question 22

Promise to defeat the Japanese

Answer 22

Stalin agrees to declare war on Japan in exchange for islands off the coast of Siberia

Question 23

Free elections

Answer 23

Stalin agrees go hold in soviet occupied eastern in exchange for the eastern part of Poland