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Module 11 WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Leader of Allied Forces in the Europe | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Father of the Atomic Bomb | Robert Oppenheimer |
| Germany, Italy, and Japan Alliance. | Axis Powers |
| Cultural icon of WWII representing women who worked in factories. | Rosie the Riveter |
| Idea of extreme nationalism. Putting forth the needs of the country ahead of individuals. | Fascism |
| Common name for National Socialism and was the ideology of Hitler. | Nazism |
| Great Britain, France, Canada, and United States alliances during WWII. | Allied Powers |
| Military strategy used in the War in the Pacific. | island-hopping |
| The extermination of an entire group of people. | genocide |
| To ready and prepare the military for war. | mobilization |
| Best known as the captain who flew the Enola Gay. | Paul Tibbetts |
| Strategy used by Japan to purposely crash their aircrafts into enemy ships. | kamikaze |
| Another name for lightning warfare that the Germans used to take Poland. | blitzkrieg |
| Leader of Soviet Union | Stalin |
| Leader of United States at the start of WWII | F.Roosevelt |
| Leader of United States at the end of WWII | Truman |
| Leader of Great Britain during 1940. | Churchill |
| Battle in Pacific where the U.S Marines invaded this island in 1945 and raised the American flag. | Iwo Jima |
| What happened on December 7, 1941? | Pearl Harbor |
| What happened on August 6 and 9, 1945? | atomic bombs |
| British forces and US forces stopped Germans advancement in Northern Africa. | Battle of El Alamein |
| This was the revenge strike by the United States against Japan in early 1942. | Doolittle Raids |
| Bloody Battle in the Soviet Union where 1.1 million Soviets died but they stopped the Germans. | Battle of Stalingrad. |
| Battle in the Pacific during June 3-6, 1942 where the United States crippled the Japanese navy. | Battle of Midway |
| Air battle of the English Channel that led to the stalemate for Germany and caused them to attack Soviet Union. | Battle of Britain |
| What happened on June 6, 1944? | D-Day |
| Land that Hitler said would be "his last territorial claim he shall make in Europe". | Sudetenland |
| To give in to demands to prevent a larger conflict. | appeasement |
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