WWII Test 4/28

Question 1

Battle of Coral Sea

Answer 1

A battle where Japan wanted to establish two bases in the Coral Sea, effectively controlling the sea.
The Allies bombed them and stopped them from invading it.
Japan suffered many losses of airplanes and military power.

Question 2

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 2

The last major Nazi offensive along the western front in WWII

Question 3

Battle of Britain

Answer 3

The successful defense of Great Britain against German attack.
Germany had a bombing campaign against GB, but GB’s Air Force eventually destroyed German planes.

Question 4

Battle of Iwo Jima

Answer 4

A battle fought on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima where the US wanted to control it to use a base and blockade shipping.
The US secure Iwo Jima after a month of fighting.

Question 5

Battle of Midway

Answer 5

A naval battle fought between the US and Japan in the central Pacific that involved Japan planning to occupy the Midway Islands.
The Allies caught wind of this and ambushed the Japanese, winning this battle.

Question 6

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Answer 6

Japan launched a surprise attack on the US naval bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
The the US declared war and entered into war with Japan’s allies.

Question 7

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 7

The act that enables the US to supply any nation considered vital to US defense with arms

Question 8

VE Day

Answer 8

Victory in Europe Day, the day of the Allies’ acceptance of Germany’s surrender. (May 1945)

Question 9

VJ Day

Answer 9

Victory over Japan Day, the day Japan surrendered in WWII, bringing the war to an end. (Aug-Sep 1945)

Question 10

Manhattan Project

Answer 10

The American program to develop an atomic bomb during WWII.

Question 11

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings

Answer 11

Two cities in Japan that were the targets of the US’s atomic bombs.
Hiroshima was an important military center.
Nagasaki was an important seaport and wartime industrial hub.

Question 12

Leaders of the Axis powers

Answer 12

Germany: Adolf Hitler
Italy: Benito Mussolini
Japan: Emperor Hirohito

Question 13

Leaders of the Allied powers

Answer 13

US: Franklin D Roosevelt
Great Britain: Winston Churchill
Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin

Question 14

Dunkirk

Answer 14

The port city where Allied troops had to escape to after being cornered by Germans

Question 15

Blitzkrieg

Answer 15

A military tactic used by the Germans in WWII that involved quick and brutal strikes using both ground and air forces to punch holes in a country’s defense

Question 16

Sudetenland

Answer 16

A region populated mostly by ethnic Germans that Hitler wanted

Question 17

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 17

The German invasion of the USSR that broke Hitler and Stalin’s non-aggression pact

Question 18

D-Day

Answer 18

The invasion of the Europe at Normandy, France.
The Allies invaded western Europe to force Germany to fight on two fronts.

Question 19

Holocaust + The Final Solution

Answer 19

The extermination of the people Hitler didn’t see fit to the Aryan race

Question 20

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 20

US Army Lieutenant General who commanded forces in North Africa

Question 21

Appeasement

Answer 21

To make concession or give in to avoid conflict.
Happened with Neville Chamberlain and Hitler w/ Sudetenland

Question 22

Nazi Party

Answer 22

A German political party that rose to power during the 1930s and 1940s under Adolf Hitler.
It was radical and nationalistic

Question 23

Facism

Answer 23

Extreme patriotism and militarism and violently opposed to communism

Question 24

Erwin Rommel

Answer 24

German Field Marshal who led the troops in North Africa

Question 25

George Patton

Answer 25

A legendary US Army tank and infantry commander with a relentless fighting style

Question 26

Omar Bradley

Answer 26

A five-star general in the US army who played an important role in the Allied victory in Europe

Question 27

Harry S. Truman

Answer 27

President of the US after FDR died who ordered the use of atomic bombs

Question 28

United Nations

Answer 28

various countries that signed an agreement in which they pledged to achieve a free world