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JFH Scholar Bowl-1
Binder pages 1-3
Question | Answer |
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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 |