WWII

Question 1

What were the Nuremberg Laws? What were the Nuremberg Trials?

Answer 1

NL: took away rights of German Jews like citizenship and marriage with non-Jewish people
NT: trials of 22 Nazi leaders for war crimes

Question 2

Which battle (a) saw the first use of radar as an early warning system
(b) Which battle marked the last German offensive,
(c) the Allied troops were backed up to the French shoreline and the British launched a massive rescue mission?

Answer 2

A. Britain
B. Bulge
C. Dunkirk

Question 3

What was the Lend-Lease Act?

Answer 3

US supplied food, ships, and weapons to Allied powers while still remaining neutral

Question 4

What was Operation Torch, Barbarossa, and Overlord?

Answer 4

Torch:US invasion of Africa
Barbarossa: German invasion of Soviet Union
Overlord: Allied invasion of Normandy France (D-Day)

Question 5

What does “blitzkrieg” mean? What is the advantage of using this tactic?

Answer 5

Lightning war; Germans used it to surprise and overwhelm the country by force

Question 6

What was island hopping? Who came up with it?

Answer 6

attacks only on islands that were not well-defended; Douglas MacArthur

Question 7

How did Japan change after the war because of Douglas MacArthur?

Answer 7

Democratization, demilitarization, emperor is forced to declare he isn’t divine, person freedoms, universal suffrage, redistribution of farm land, US military presence continued

Question 8

What day was Pearl Harbor

Answer 8

December 7, 1941

Question 9

Who was Erwin Rommel

Answer 9

Commander of the Afrika Korps. Nicknamed the “ Desert Fox”.

Question 10

Why did Germany want Africa in the first place

Answer 10

They wanted control over the Suez Canal

Question 11

Allied Powers

Answer 11

United States, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union

Question 12

Axis Powers

Answer 12

Nazi Germany, Japan, Italy

Question 13

Bloodiest battle in the Pacific?

Answer 13

Okinawa

Question 14

Who did Germany take over first?

Answer 14

Poland

Question 15

Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor

Answer 15

Japan needed colonies in Southeast Asia to fund war in China. The U.S sent aid to China and cut off oil shipments in Japan.

Question 16

Who led the naval victory over Japan

Answer 16

Admiral Chester Nimitz

Question 17

What was Bataan Death March

Answer 17

Transport of Prisoners of War where they were treated horribly by Japanese soldiers

Question 18

What was significant about The Battle of Coral Sea

Answer 18

It stopped the Japanese advance

Question 19

What was significant about The Battle of Midway

Answer 19

Turning point in the Pacific War, U.S destroys Japan’s naval fleet

Question 20

What was the nickname for the Island of Guadalcanal

Answer 20

Island of Death

Question 21

Why did Hitler like Jewish emigration

Answer 21

Because they were leaving Germany

Question 22

What were the designated cities the Jews lived in. (The Germans hoped they would die of disease and starvation)

Answer 22

Ghettos

Question 23

What was Hitler’s “ Final Solution”

Answer 23

Mass genocide and killing squads, this led to concentration camps

Question 24

Why did Germany want Stalingrad

Answer 24

The oil fields in Stalingrad, Soviets win

Question 25

Why were Japanese Americans put in concentration camps

Answer 25

The U.S suspected that they were still loyal to Japan

Question 26

How did the Battle of The Bulge Happen

Answer 26

Soviets were advancing from the east (met in the middle)

Hitler launched a counter attack in the west succeeding at first by causing a “bulge” in the Allied lines

Since there were no reinforcements, Germans had to retreat

Question 27

What was significant about The Battle of Leyte Gulf

Answer 27

Japanese naval fleet badly damaged

Question 28

What were Kamikazes

Answer 28

Japanese suicide pilots

Question 29

What was the creation of the atomic bomb called

Answer 29

The Manhattan Project

Question 30

Where were the atomic bombs dropped

Answer 30

Hiroshima and then Nagasaki