WWII Questions

Question 1

British Prime Minister

Answer 1

Winston Churchill

Question 2

Nazi dictator

Answer 2

Adolf Hitler

Question 3

Fascist Italian leader

Answer 3

Benito Mussolini

Question 4

Soviet dictator

Answer 4

Joseph Stalin

Question 5

U.S. Presidents during WWII

Answer 5

Franklin Roosevelt and Harry S Truman

Question 6

Japanese Emperor

Answer 6

Hirohito

Question 7

Supreme Allied Commander/U.S. General in Europe

Answer 7

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 8

U.S. General in the Pacific

Answer 8

Douglas MacArthur

Question 9

Alliance made up of Britain, France, the U.S., China, the Soviet Union, etc.

Answer 9

Allies

Question 10

Alliance made up of Germany, Italy, and Japan

Answer 10

Axis

Question 11

the deliberate attempt to wipe out an entire nation or group of people

Answer 11

genocide

Question 12

warlike act by one country against another without cause

Answer 12

aggression

Question 13

act of setting limits on the amount of scarce goods people can buy

Answer 13

rationing

Question 14

To confine a group to a camp until after a war

Answer 14

intern

Question 15

Giving in to demands to avoid conflict.

Answer 15

appeasement

Question 16

A presidential command that is similar to a law except it does not need congressional approval.

Answer 16

Executive order

Question 17

Turning point in the Pacific Theatre as Allies went on the offense for the first time in June 1942.

Answer 17

Battle of Midway

Question 18

This decision ended the war in the Pacific

Answer 18

Dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 19

Beginning of the end of war for the European Theater as Allies were able to invade France and push back German forces.

Answer 19

Operation Overlord (a.k.a. D-Day)

Question 20

Allowed US troops to gain an air strip closer to Japan for the purpose of round the clock bombings over Tokyo.

Answer 20

Iwo Jima

Question 21

Repeated bombing of cities by Germany’s Air Force

Answer 21

Battle of Britain

Question 22

Major German counterattack following D-Day.

Answer 22

Battle of the Bulge

Question 23

Allowed Germany to invade Poland without fear of attack from one of Poland’s powerful neighbors.

Answer 23

Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact

Question 24

Germany’s tactic for modern warfare to quickly attack and overcome their enemy; “lightning war.”

Answer 24

blitzkrieg

Question 25

The event that prompted Britain and France to declare war on Germany

Answer 25

invasion of Poland

Question 26

The event that prompted U.S. entry into WWII

Answer 26

attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 27

What were the Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo Trials?

Answer 27

War crimes trials for Nazi and Japanese leaders after the end of WWII

Question 28

Who was “Rosie the Riveter?”

Answer 28

Symbol for U.S. women working in wartime industries during WWII

Question 29

Why did the government enforce rationing?

Answer 29

To ensure that supplies would still be available and reasonable costs despite shortages during the war.

Question 30

What was the Lend-Lease Act?

Answer 30

It allowed the U.S. to send supplies to Britain and the Soviet Union

Question 31

New technology used by the British to help them defend their country during the Battle of Britain

Answer 31

radar

Question 32

The offensive strategy in the Pacific in which American forces bypassed heavily fortified Japanese posts

Answer 32

island hopping

Question 33

Meaning “divine wind”, this term was used by the Japanese to refer to their suicide pilots.

Answer 33

kamikaze

Question 34

A message sent to Japan from Allied leaders that told Japan to surrender or face destruction.

Answer 34

Potsdam Declaration

Question 35

The Allied powers at the beginning of WWII

Answer 35

Britain and France

Question 36

Cities that the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on to end WWII

Answer 36

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 37

The side that the U.S. was on at the start of the war in 1939.

Answer 37

Neither, they were neutral

Question 38

Group interned in the U.S. during WWII

Answer 38

Japanese Americans

Question 39

How did U.S. citizens contribute to WWII?

Answer 39

Rationing, conserving, working in factories, military service, buying war bonds, etc.