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TeamSpence WWII
TeamSpence World War II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Operation Overlord (D-Day) | June 6, 1944 Invasion of Normandy France |
| Operation Torch | Invasion of North Africa (First Allied Major Push) |
| Allies | Alliance between U.S., Britian, Soviet Union, France, China, and 45 other nations |
| Axis | Alliance between Germany, Italy, Japan, and 6 other nations |
| Attack on Peral Harbor | Dec. 7, 1941 |
| Official start of World War II | September 1, 1939 Invasion of Poland |
| Blitzkrieg | "Lightning War" German Military Tatic used for a quick victory using planes, tanks and infantry |
| Miracle of Dunkirk | 330,000 British troops surronded by German tanks and had to be evacuated by sea |
| Operation Sea Lion (Battle for Britian) | German Failed invasion of Britian |
| Battle of Stalingrad | First victory for allies (in Russia)drove Germany out of USSR |
| Battle of Midway | First major victory for United Sates agianst Japan |
| Coral Sea | US victory that prevented Japanese invasion of Australia |
| Unofficial start of World War II | July 7, 1937 |
| US declared war on Japan | Dec. 8 1941 |
| FDR | President of United States During most of World War II (Died 1945 polio) |
| Japan Surrenders | September 2, 1945 |
| Prime Minister at start of World War II | Chamberlain |
| Churchill became Prime Minister | May 10, 1940 |
| Leader of germany | Adolf Hitler |
| Leader of USSR | Joseph Stalin |
| Phoney War | Tense period of anticipation between the Invasion of Poland and the Invasion of France |
| Fall of France | June 22, 1940 |
| Conference of Yalta | Division of Germany, bring war criminals in,help freed people of Europe, set up a commission to look into reparations, and set up a Polish Provisional Government |
| Conference of Potsdam | The Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the U.S represented by Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. They tried to decide what to do with a defeated Germany but couldn’t come to an agreement. |
| Rome-Berlin Axis | Joined Italy and Germany in an Alliance |
| The two different theaters of war | Europe and the Pacific |
| Tripartite Pact | The joining of Italy, Germany, and Japan (Axis) |
| Total War | war in which every available weapon is used and the nation's full financial resources are devoted |
| Operation Barbarossa | German invasion of Russia |
| Battle of the Bulge | Hitlers final push agianst Allies (failed) |
| El Alamein | Turning point in Africa |
| Manhattan Project | American effort to develop the first nuclear wepon |
| Augest 6, 1945 | Little boy dropped on Hiroshima killing 80,000 instantly |
| Augest 9, 1945 | Fat man dropped on Nagakaki causing Japan to surrender |
| Lend-Lease-Act | FDR's way to get around congress to give Britian wepons, ships, supplies, etc. |
| Island Hopping | US strategy of captering key Japanese island to get close to Japan |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicied planes used to attack Americans near the end of the war |
| Holocaust | The Mass elimation of Jews and other lesser races enacted by Hitler |
| Invasion of Norway | Gave German U-Boats good naval bases to attack Britian from |
| Vichy France | Puppet State in France controlled by Germany |
| Luftwaffe | German Air Force |
| Radar | Seceret Wepon used by the Brittish During the Battle for Britian that identified aircraft |
| General Rommel | Commander of the Afrika Korps and later the German forces in France |
| Free French Movement | Led by Charles DeGauell in London. Few French men joined |
| Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britian during World War II. One of the most important Leaders in modern British History |
| Operation Husky | Allied Invasion of Sicily which led to an Allied Victory in Italy |
| Battle of Kursk | Turning Point in Russia. Germany lost the largest tank battle in history |
| Seige of Lengingrad | Germans beseiged this city from 1941 to 1945 killing about 632,000 people |
| D-Day beaches | Juno-Canada Sword and Gold-British Utah and Omaha-America |
| Supreme Commander of Allied forces | General Eisenhower |
| Battle for Leyte Gulf | Largest Naval battle in History. Fought between US and Japan. Last major naval battle of WWII. |
| Auschwitz | Largest German concentration and extermination camp at least 1.1 million people died there |
| President Truman | President after Roosevelt Died gave order to drop the A-bomb |
| Vichy France | Was thought of as a satellite state or "puppet state" of Germany after the fall of France in 1940. |
| Battle of the Atlantic | At the beginning of the war German U-boats devastated Allied shipping and navies. Nearly cut off Britain from supplies and support but was eventually slowed and halted by Allied weapon advances. |
| Nonaggression Pact | An agreement between Russia and Germany in which both nations promised not to attack the other country. |
| Enigma | A German code-making machine |
| RAF | The British “Royal air force” |
| Admiral Yamamoto | The Japanese admiral (naval strategist) who called for the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| Douglas MacArthur | The commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific. He favored the plan to “island-hop” in order to defeat the Japanese. |
| Ghettos | city neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live. |
| Mussolini | Italian dictator and founder of fascism |
| Isolationism | Pre-war U. S. national policy of avoiding alliances and other international political and economic relations |
| Navajo language | Source of the U.S. code used in the Pacific Theater of the war that was never broken |
| Tojo | Japanese prime minister who led Japan to war with the United States |
| Enola Gay | The plane which carried the atomic bomb to Hiroshima |
| Doolittle Raid | US suprise attack on the Japanese mainland April 18, 1942 |
| Mulberry Artificial Harbors | Floating harbors used on D-day to transport millions of ton worth of supplies and troops on the beaches |
| End of World War II | September 2, 1945 |
| Nazi | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| Rosie the Riveter | fictional factory worker who became a symbol of American women's comtribution to the war effort during World War II |
| Reistag | this was the Parliment in Germany |
| Maginot Line | this was a border the France used to keep Germany out and to protect themselves |
| First American territory occupied since the war of 1812 | Islands of Adak and Kiska (Part of Alaska) |
| Wolf Pack | Group of Subs that travel together and attack other ships |
| Battle of Java Sea | Allie lost in the Dutch East Indies that allowed the Japanese a near indespenseable source of oil |
| ABDA | American-British-Dutch-Australian unified command in the Dutch East Indies |
| Internment camps | American "concentration" camps for Japanese Americans during WWII |
| WAAF's | Women's Auxiliary Air Force |
| Operation Valkyrie | Failed Assassination plot of HItler |
| Wolf Lair | Hitlers HQ during WWII |
| Capture of Sicily | 17th August 1943 |
| Casablanca Conference | Held in January 1943. Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to launch an invasion of Sicily |
| Operation AVALANCHE | Invasion of Italy |
| Gustav Line | German defensive line drawn across central Italy just south of Rome. |
| Anzio | Allied invasion in mid way in Italy to bypass the Gustav Line |
| Largest Naval Task force in WWII | Task Force 58 (209 ships) |
| Causes for world war II | Renewal of Tensions form WWI Japanese expansion Fascist movements in EU |
| V-2 Rocket | first ballistic missile used in warfare, developed by Germany |
| Iwo Jima | very small Pacific island used by japanese soliders to attack american bombers |
| Okinawa | largest of the Ryukyus islands at the southern tip of Japan used to attack american bombers and to protect Japans merchant fleet |
| Battle for Berlin | fought between April and May 1945, and the Russian victory saw the end of Hitler's Third Reich |
| Operation Market Garden | Failed Allie invasion of Arnhem to end the war in Europe early |
| The Fall of Singapore | February 15th 1942,Considered one of the greatest defeats in the history of the British Army and probably Britain’s worst defeat in World War Two |
| Operation Hercules | German planned invasion of Malta (British air base) |
| Battle of the River Plate | First Major Naval battle in World War II |
| Battle of the Philippine Sea | last great carrier battle of World War Two |
| Ration | a fixed amount of provisions or food |
| Did any South American nations Participate in WWII | Yes 19 nations Brazil the largest supporter |
| Where was Hitler Born | Austria |
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