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WW2 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| air battle over London - Germans bombed for 70 days - Hitler should have bombed Britain air field, but hit the city of London instead. HITLER'S MISTAKE | Battle of Britain |
| Great evacuation of allied troops from France - HITLER'S MISTAKE | Dunkirk |
| Huge Allied invasion of France - Fake troops dropped large front. Millions killed - OPERATION BARBAROSSA - HITLER MISTAKE | Russian Front |
| Germans Blitzkrieg takes over Poland very fast - beginning of WW2 | Invasion of Poland |
| sneak attack by Japanese - many signs - ignored - Japanese did not finish us off because some carriers were out to sea. | Pearl Harbor |
| atomic bomb dropped on both cities - | Hiroshima and Nagasaki - |
| Last major offensive by the German army, which failed. Attacks came from all around, which looked like a bulging belly. | Battle of the Bulge |
| Point where the Germans thought the allied forces would come across. Used Hollywood to build fake army to fake out Germans. | Calais |
| Hitler's obsession with taking this city allowed the Russians to encircle the German army and turned the tide of the war vs Germany. | Stalingrad |
| US forces jumping from island to island pushing back the Japanese - Iwo Jima, Siapan, etc | Island Hopping |
| bomb Japan directly from this Island. The picture Bird showed you is from the top of this Mountain | Iwo Jima |
| Pilots bombed Tokyo shortly after Pearl Harbor | Doolittle Raids |
| Leader of the Nazi Army | Adolf Elizabeth Hitler |
| Leader of the SS and concentration camps | Himmler |
| also called the desert fox - Hitler's best general - helped fortify beaches along French coast | General Rommel |
| leader of the German Luftwaffe (air force) | Goering |
| fascist dictator of Japan | Tojo |
| soviet Union's leader during ww2 | Stalin |
| became president after FDR died - made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan | Truman |
| fascist dictator of Spain - country stayed neutral during war | Franco |
| Prime minister of Britain during ww2 | Winston Churchill |
| President of the US during ww2 - died in office | FDR |
| believed Hitler when they signed the MUNICH PACT - Hitler promised not to invade any more nations or territories | Chamberlain |
| overall commander of allied forces for the d-day invasion - later on became president | General Eisenhower |
| He said :America is awoken like a sleeping tiger after the Pearl harbor | Admiral Yamamoto |
| US general who fled the Philippines, but vowed he would return, which he did | General MaCarthur |
| head physicist who led the US team that developed the atomic bomb | Openhiemer |
| secret weapon used by Germany to fire rockets on allied forces and Great Britain | V-2 rocket |
| selling of weapons and materials to France and Great Britain before we entered the war | Lend lease |
| Japanese suicide planes used near the end of the war. BANZAI | Kamikaze |
| your name | Alexa |
| favorite teacher | Bird |
| Yalta | meeting betwen Churchill, Stalin, and FDR decide the future of Europe |
| Secret Program that developed the atomic bomb by team of the coolest people around - physicsits | Manhattan Project |
| breeding program to make perfect Nazis | Lebensborn |
| outlawed boy scouts - replaced with this | Hitler yout corp |
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Mr_Bird
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