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JFH Scholar Bowl-1
Binder pages 1-3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Germany invaded this country 9/1/39 to start WWII | Poland |
| Morale building bombing of Tokyo and other cities 4/18/42 | Doolittle Raid |
| Doolittle Raid's B-25 bombers took off from this carrier | Hornet |
| The turning point of the war in the Pacific; June 1942 | Battle of Midway |
| The turning point of the war in North Africa; November 1942 | El Alamein |
| 2 generals at El Alamein | Bernard Montgomery/Erwin Rommel |
| Place invaded in Operation Husky (7/43) | Sicily |
| Place invaded in Operation Overlord (6/6/44) | Normandy, France (D-Day) |
| Place invaded in Operation Avalanche (9/43) | Italy |
| Place invaded in Operation Torch | North Africa (Morocco) |
| Place invaded in Germany's Operation Barbarossa | Soviet Union |
| Effort to make the atomic bombs | Manhattan Project |
| Lead the Manhattan Project | Oppenheimer |
| Hitler's mistress/wife | Eva Braun |
| Pacific sea battle (10/44), largest naval battle in history | Leyte Gulf |
| Final battle of Pacific | Okinawa |
| Fleet admiral of US Pacific Fleet | Chester Nimitz |
| Commander of US Army forces in Pacific | Douglas McArthur |
| What McArthur said when he left Phillipines | "I shall return" |
| French defensive line built against Germany | Maginot Line |
| German for "lightning war" | Blitzkrieg |
| Period of no fighting from 9/39-10/40 | Phony Way (sitzkrieg) |
| where the May 1940 evacuation of 338 thousand British troops from France took place | Dunkirk |
| May 1940 Dunkirk evacuation name | Operation Dynamo |
| Hitler's planned invasion of Great Britain | Operation Sealion |
| July-October 1940 air battle between Great Britain and Germany | Battle of Britain |
| 2/13-14/1945 bombing of this city destroyed it | Dresden |
| German defenses in France against Allied invasion in Germany | Atlantic Wall |
| Fast, tough powerful Soviet battle tank | T-34 |
| US battleship on duty 12/7/41, 1/2 of Pearl Harbor casualties | Arizona |
| US battleship where Japanese surrendered | Missouri |
| Soviet city that survived 1000 day siege | Leningrad |
| Bloodiest battle of the war, turning point in East | Stalingrad |
| German defensive line in Italy | Gustav Line |
| Key position in German line in Italy, 400 year old monastery destroyed here | Monte Cassino |
| Code names of the 5 beaches in Normandy | Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword, Juno |
| Overall Allied commander in Europe | Eisenhower |
| German defensive line in Italy | Gustav Line |
| Key position in line, 400 year old monastery destroyed here | Monte Cassino |
| Japanese suicide planes | Kamikazes |
| Largest land battle 12/44, last try to win war for Germany | Battle of the Bulge |
| Town held by 101st Airborne in center of the German offensive in the Battle of the Bulge | Bastogne |
| Hitler's book written in prison | Mein Kampf |
| Mein Kampf was dictated to this man | Rudolf Hess |
| 11/23 attempt by Hitler to start a new government | Beer Hall Putsch |
| Parliament building burned by Hitler to get emergency powers | Reichstag |
| Group blamed for the burning of the Reichstag | Communists |
| Early 1930s German president | Paul von Hindenburg |
| Term for unification of all German-speaking people | Anschluss |
| Term for gaining living space for Germans | liebensraum |
| This country was sold out at the Munich AGreement( 9/38) | Czechoslovakia |
| Western region of that country given to Germans for Anschluss | Sudetenland |
| Term associated with this agreement of giving in rather than fighting | appeasement |
| "Little worm" from Britain who signed this agreement | Neville Chamberlain |
| Early paramilitary group of the Nazis; replaced by SS | SA |
| Leader of Nazi Germany's SA until murdered | Ernest Rohm |
| Name of the members of the Nazi Germany's SA | brown shirts |
| political purging/murdering by Nazis- June/July 1934 | Night of the Long Knives |
| event that began the Holocaust | Night of Broken Glass/Kristallnacht |
| nickname of German General Erwin Rommel | Desert Fox |
| Nickname of US General George Patton | Old Blood and Guts |
| Soviet name for World War II | Great Patriotic War |
| line of latitude demanded by Polk for Oregon territory | 54 degrees, 40 minutes |
| highest tariff in US history | Hawley-Smoot tariff |
| Ancient Sumerian writing | cuneiform |
| in Hinduism and Buddhism; state of perfect peace, soul is free | nirvana |
| time of unity peace and stability in Rome 27 BC-180 AD | Pax Romana |
| Sumerian temple/pyramid | ziggurat |
| period with rising unemployment and inflation; Nixon ad | Stagflation |
| Spanish word for group that governs country after coup | junta |
| term where industry can only hire union members | closed shop |
| ancient writing using wedge-shaped characters | cuneiform |
| law where state agencies and programs must be reviewed by legislature | sunset laws |
| Russian for "traveling companion", name of the first artificial satellite | Sputnik |
| largest concrete dam in US | Grand Coulee |
| world's tallest living thing | the Mendocino Tree |
| currency in Poland | zloty |
| currency in Phillipines | peso |
| loose confederation of cities in late 1100s in northern Germany | Hanseatic League |
| name of Russian sub that sunk summer 2000 with 118 aboard | Kursk |
| US satellite launched in October 1985 that flew by Venus | Galileo |
| space shuttle that fixed the Hubble telescope | Endeavor |
| number signers on Declaration of Independence | 56 |
| event that marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar | Hegira |
| 4 students where killed at this university on May 5 1970 by National Guardsmen | Kent State University |
| 2 US space probes that reached Mars in 1976 | Viking I and Viking II |
| 1850 US law requiring northern states to return runaway slaves | Fugitive Slave Act |
| religion of Celtic Britain and Gaul | Druidism |
| name for the 4 holy books of the Hindus | Vedas |
| tallest building or structure in 1900 | Eiffel Tower |
| term referring to a very harsh, unusually severe punishment | Draconian |
| name for Muhammad's "flight" from Mecca to Medina | Hegira |
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