Question | Answer |
Nazi leader who took control of Germany in 1934 | Adolf Hitler |
The code name given to the atomic bomb project | Manhattan Project |
Japanese suicide planes | kamikazes |
Name of the socialist party in Italy controlled by Mussolini | Fascist |
Lead pilot of the Japanese attack planes at Pearl Harbor | Mitsuo Fuchida |
The German general known as the "Desert Fox" | Erwin Rommel |
The President who proposed the "Fair Deal" for America | Harry S. Truman |
The German method of attack which means "lightening war" | blitzkrieg |
The American plan for attacking the Pacific Islands | island hopping |
German city divided between Communism and freedom | Berlin |
When did Israel once again become a nation-state? | 1948 |
Where has the United Nations met since 1945? | New York City |
Who led the U.N.'s forces in Korea? | General MacArthur |
Operation Torch was the code name for this invasion of this country. | Africa |
This was the first city destroyed by an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945 | Hiroshima |
Jesse Owens is best remembered as this | An Olympic Hero |
Several Nazi war criminals were found guilty at these trials. | Nuremburg Trials |
This mass slaughter of the Jews by the Nazis killed over 6 million Jews. | Holocaust |
"Liberty ships" were built by this industrialist. | Henry Kaiser |
Through the darkest days of WWII, the people of England looked to this prime minister for strength and leadership. | Winston Churchill |
After WWII this new kind of war began, a conflict between Americanism and Communism. | Cold War |
The leader of the free Chinese against both the Japanese and Chinese Communists. | Chiang Kai-shek |
The policy America adopted toward Korea, which meant stopping Communism from spreading but not destroying it. | Containment |
Pledged American help for any free nation threatened by Communist takeover | Truman Doctrine |
This advisor of President Roosevelt at Yalta was a Communist party organizer in the United States. | Alger Hiss |
This allowed America to loan tremendous amounts of war material to the Allies fighting Germany in WWII. | Lend-Lease Act |
The landing at Inchon was an important battle in this war. | Korean War |
He said an "iron curtain" had descended across Europe, separating free nations from Communist nations. | Winston Churchill |
German jets were first shot down by this American fighter squadron. | Fighting Red Tails |
Canada, the United States, and several Western European nations established this military alliance. | NATO |
This was established by President Eisenhower to defend Southeast Asia from Communism. | SEATO |
These acts of the 1930's were designed to keep America out of war | Neutrality Acts |
Women in the armed forces made up these groups. | WACS and WAVES |
The Marshall Plan was to give money and supplies to help rebuild this place after WWII. | Europe |
He became a missionary to Japan after being a prisoner of war in that country. | Jacob DeShazer |
Second-generation Japanse-Americans | Nisei |
V-J Day was proclaimed on September 2 of this year. | 1945 |
This battle was the turning point in the war in the Pacific. | Battle of Midway |
By 1941, this country stood alone as the last bastion for freedom in Europe. | Britain |
The Nazi-Soviet Pact divided up this country. | Poland |
This was the first naval battle in which opposing ships never saw each other | Battle of Coral Sea |
These men helped develop the atomic bomb. | Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, J. Robert Oppenheimer |
Who led the Free Chinese against both the Japanese and the Chinese Communists? | Chiang Kai-shek |
Prime Minister of Britain during WWII | Winston Churchill |
The name of the German army's last great offensive in Europe | Battle of the Bulge |
The Japanese lost nearly all of their remaining ships and planes in this battle. | Battle of Leyte Gulf |
Led U.S. forces in the Philippines | General MacArthur |
led a bombing raid over Tokyo | Colonel Jimmy Doolittle |
Allied commander in Europe | General Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Aggressive American general who led the invasion of Sicily | General George Patton, Jr. |
First candidate to campaign by going directly to the people. | Harry S. Truman |
Leader of the Free French forces. | Charles de Gaulle |
What happened on December 7, 1941? | Pearl Harbor |
What American Indian tribe did the U.S. government employ to relay messages in secret code? | Navajo |
What nickname was given to the American fighter pilots that shot down the first German jet fighters? | Fighting Red Tails |