Random WW2 Questions #1
What was the name of the Allied strategy to defeat Japan?
island hopping
Which country surrendered first, Germany or Japan?
Germany
Who was the British prime minister who practiced appeasement?
Neville Chamberlain
What was the largest invasion in history, and was a crucial success for the Allies?
D-Day
What country was forced to give Germany some of its territory as a result of the Munich Conference?
Czechoslovakia
What day will "live in infamy" according to FDR?
December 7, 1941
What nation was the last to fall to Germany in 1940?
France
At what battle did the Nazis counterattack against the Allied invasion of Europe, almost stopping the advance into Germany?
Who was the U.S. president at the close of World War 2?
Harry Truman
Who became prime minister after Winston Churchill? (first and last name)
Clement Attlee
What is the German name for the "lightning war"?
blitzkrieg
What act empowered the president to supply any Allied nation on almost any terms he wished?
Lend-Lease Act
What agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt listed their "common principles"?
Atlantic Charter
What term describes a nationalistic, militaristic, totalitarian movement?
fascism
What country did Germany invade in operation Barbarossa?
Which American became a leading spokesman for isolationism
Charles Lindbergh
On wht city was the first atomic bomb dropped?
Hiroshima
Who was the Republican candidate for president in 1940?
Wendell Wilkie
What British commander helped to defeat the Germans in North Africa?
Bernard Montgomery
Who was the prime minister/military leader of Japan?
Hideki Tojo
Who was the famous German "desert fox"?
Erwin Rommel
Give 3 measures that the U.S. took to support the war effort at home.
Recycling, Rationing, and the War Production Board
Okinawa
What was the main provision of the Neutrality Act of 1939?
It permitted warring nations to purchase weaponry from the U.S. on a cash basis and carry it in their own ships
What were 3 factors that kept the U.S. out of the start of Word War 2?