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teacher ww2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.WWII began | 1939 |
| 2.WWII ended | 1945 |
| 3.What year did the U.S. enter? | 1941 |
| 4.Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
| 5.D-Day | June 6, 1944 |
| 6.Hiroshima | August 6, 1945 |
| 7.Nagasaki | August 9, 1945 |
| 16. Adolf Hitler | totalitarian-German Chancellor and later Führer, leading the Nazi Party. Anti-Sem. |
| 17. Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the United States during a significant portion of World War II. |
| 18. Harry S. Truman | Became President of the United States after Roosevelt's death. He made the decision to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| 19. Benito Mussolini | Prime Minister of Italy and founder of Italian Fascism. |
| 20. Hideki Tojo | Prime Minister of Japan and military leader. |
| 21. Emperor Hirohito | Emperor of Japan |
| 22. Neville Chamberlain | Great Britain appeasement, notably with the Munich Agreement. |
| 23. Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister |
| 24. Francisco Franco | Leader of Spain |
| 25. Joseph Stalin | USSR. Man of Steel Communist. Battles |
| 8.Battle of Britain | Aerial battle between the Royal Air Force (RAF) versus German Luftwaffe. The RAF saved Britain from invasion. |
| 8.Battle of the Bulge | last major German offensive |
| 10.Stalingrad | put German on defensive in war. |
| 11.D-Day | The Allied invasion of Normandy, France. 5 beaches. |
| 12.Midway | turning point for Pacific. crippled Japanese fleet. |
| 13.Coral Sea | A first naval battle in air; broke Japanese code, they called off invasion of New Guinea. |
| 14.Iwo Jima | First American attack on Japanese home island. |
| 15.Okinawa | 2000 kamikaze attacks. Operations |
| 26.Operation Torch | An Allied invasion of North Africa. |
| 27.Operation Overlord | (D-Day)Invasion of France.. |
| 28.Operation Barbarossa | German Invasion USSR. |
| 29.“Day that will live in infamy” | President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a speech to describe the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan |
| 30.“I shall return” | General Douglas MacArthur when he was forced to evacuate the Philippines |
| 31. Montgomery | A British General defeated Rome. |
| 32. Rommel | A German leader commanded “Africa Korps” . |
| 33. Truman (Harry S. Truman) | Became the President of the United States after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. use of atomic bombs on Japan. |
| 34. Eisenhower | Spanish Allied Commandeer. |
| 35. Oppenheimer | developed the first atomic bomb during World War II. |
| 36. Chester Nimitz | Commandeer of Pacific Navy. |
| 37. MacArthur | An American general at Philipines. |
| 38. Benjamin Davis | Commanded Tuskegee Airmen |
| 39 Tuskegee Airmen | A group of African American military pilots |
| 40. Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan. |
| 41. Allied Powers | United States, Great Britain, USSR, France. |
| 48. Manhattan Project | produced the first nuclear weapons/ atomic bomb. Led by the United States, |
| 49. Liberty ships | lessinging welded not riveted US ships. |
| 50. Lebensraum | "living room" for Nazis, gain land. |
| 51. Double V Campaign | victory over fascism (racism) and victory over racism at home, and Hitler. |
| 52. Internment camps | Japanese Americans in the United States, were forcibly relocated and confined during the war. |
| 53. Concentration Camps | killed 6 millions Jews. |
| 54. Final Solution | The Nazi plan for the to eliminate Jews. |
| 55. Anschluss | unification of German and Austria. |
| 56. Communism | state runs everything. |
| 57. Fascism | Aggressive nationalism (Italy/Germany). |
| 58. Holocaust | Nazi plan to extreminate Jews. |
| 59. Enola Gay | plane dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in1945. |
| 60. Shoah | A Hebrew term used to refer to the Holocaust. |
| 61. Convoy system | cargo ships travel in groups, protected by naval vessels, to deter attacks by enemy submarines. |
| 62. Ration | limited availability of goods (during wartime to ensure fair distribution and conservation). |
| 63. Kamikaze | “divine wind” .Japanese suicide pilots crashing planes into enemy targets. |
| 64. RAF (Royal Air Force) | Britain’s air force. |
| 65. Luftwaffe | German air force |
| 66. Auschwitz | extermination camp operated by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.2 million killed |
| 67. Cost Plus System | A U.S. government wartime contracting system that provided larger profit percentage on their costs to companies. 68. Blitzkrieg |
| 69. Munich Pact | Britain and France appeased Hitler by allowing the annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. 70. Nazi |
| Events | 42. Bataan Death March (1942) |
| 43. V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day, August 1945) | |
| 44. Attack at Pearl Harbor Japan attacked US in war. | |
| 45. V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day, May 1945) | |
| 46. Kristallnacht (1938) | Also known as the Night of Broken Glass,Anti Jewish violence, |
| 47. Island hopping | taking key islands on the way to Japan. strategy was used to minimize casualties and gain bases for airfields. |
| 71. Neutrality Act of 1935 | Made it illegal to sell arms to countries at war. |
| 72. Nuremberg Laws (1935) | Law against Jews. Lost citizenship, jobs, etc. |
| 73. Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Treaty | German and USSR. divide polls. |
| 74. Lend-Lease Act (1941) | UGreat Britain gets arms without paying. |
| 75. Selective Service and Training Act (1940) | draft. |
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