WWII

Question 1

A government in which most of the country’s power is held by one person who rules by force.

Answer 1

Fascism

Question 2

An economic ideology that advocates for a classless society in which all property and wealth are owned by the public, instead of by individuals.

Answer 2

Communism

Question 3

A form of government that has total control over the lives of its citizens and does not permit individual freedom.

Answer 3

Totalitarianism

Question 4

FDR’s speech that gave a vision for a world in which all people had freedom of speech and of religion, and freedom from want and fear.

Answer 4

Quarantine Speech & Four Freedoms Speech

Question 5

August 14, 1941 statement that defined the Allied goals for after WWII, including self-determination for nations and economic and social cooperation among nations.

Answer 5

Atlantic Charter

Question 6

1941 act that allowed the US to lend or lease (not sell) war supplies to any nation “vital to the defense of the US.” Allowed the US to remain neutral.

Answer 6

Lend-Lease Act

Question 7

WWII American naval base in the Pacific and home to the US Pacific Fleet attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941; prompted the US to enter WWII.

Answer 7

Pearl Harbor

Question 8

British Prime Minister during WWII famous for his inspiring speeches, and for his refusal to give in, even when things were going badly.

Answer 8

Winston Churchill

Question 9

WWII 5-Star Army General who served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe.

Answer 9

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 10

Leader of Germany’s Nazi Party who took absolute power in Germany beginning in 1933.

Answer 10

Adolf Hitler

Question 11

American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in WWII, oversaw Allied occupation of post-WWII Japan, and led United Nations forces in Korean War.

Answer 11

Douglas MacArthur

Question 12

Army General who devised Operation Overlord in 1944, the successful Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during WWII.

Answer 12

George C. Marshall

Question 13

Italian political leader who became the fascist dictator of Italy from during WWII

Answer 13

Benito Mussolini

Question 14

32nd American President from 1933 to 1945; Known for New Deal and WWII

Answer 14

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

Question 15

Socialist Dictator of Soviet Union during WWII

Answer 15

Joseph Stalin

Question 16

Japanese Prime Minister during WWII

Answer 16

Hideki Tojo

Question 17

33rd president. Ended WWII by dropping the atomic bomb on Japan.

Answer 17

Harry S. Truman

Question 18

The United States Navy defended a Japanese attack against the Midway Atoll; Marked a turning point in WWII.

Answer 18

Battle of Midway

Question 19

US invasions on Japanese cities that resulted in some of WWII’s fiercest fighting and largest casualties.

Answer 19

Iwo Jima & Okinawa

Question 20

Combined naval, air, and land Allied invasion of Normandy in German-occupied France forces as part of Operation Overlord in WWII.

Answer 20

D-Day

Question 21

The first Black military pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), a precursor of the U.S. Air Force.

Answer 21

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 22

American infantry division who played a large role in D-Day by parachuting in to enemy territory.

Answer 22

101st Airborne

Question 23

Navajo men who joined the U.S. Marines and developed an unbreakable code that would be used across the Pacific during WWII.

Answer 23

Navajo Code Talkers

Question 24

Legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on December 18, 1944, upheld the conviction of Fred Korematsu for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during WWII.

Answer 24

Korematsu v. United States

Question 25

Code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during WWII.

Answer 25

Manhattan Project

Question 26

The Yalta and Potsdam Conferences were called to help the Allied Forces decide what should happen to Germany – and the rest of Europe – once Hitler was defeated and WWII over.

Answer 26

Yalta & Potsdam Conferences

Question 27

An international governing body formed after WWII to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries.

Answer 27

United Nations

Question 28

American politician from Tennessee and the longest-serving U.S. Secretary of State; Worked for FDR during WWII.

Answer 28

Cordell Hull

Question 29

Foreign policy under Truman where the US would provide political, military, and economic assistance to democratic nations to prevent the spread of communism.

Answer 29

Truman Doctrine

Question 30

American initiative in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of WWII in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.

Answer 30

Marshall Plan

Question 31

327-day operation in which the U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.

Answer 31

Berlin Airlift

Question 32

CAUSES - increased spread of communism in Europe and China, Soviet Russia becoming a superpower, and fears of Russian spies in the United States.

EFFECTS - creation of House Committee on Un-American Activities in Congress to search for communists in America, rise of McCarthyism.

Answer 32

Causes and Effects of Second Red Scare

Question 33

Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos.

Answer 33

Domino theory

Question 34

Popular name given to latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly separates Communist North Korea and Democratic South Korea.

Answer 34

38th Parallel

Question 35

Failed CIA-backed attempt to overthrow the communist government of Fidel Castro.

Answer 35

Bay of Pigs

Question 36

13-day political and military standoff between the US and the Soviet Union in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba

Answer 36

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 37

Agreement where the French agreed to withdraw their troops from northern Vietnam. as long as Vietnam held elections within two years to choose a president and reunite the country.

Answer 37

Geneva Accords

Question 38

a surprise series of attacks against the South Vietnamese launched during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year festival, by the North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong

Answer 38

Tet Offensive

Question 39

Vietnamese revolutionary and communist leader who became president of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969

Answer 39

Ho Chi Minh