Road to War
European Theater
Pacific Theater
Alaska
Miscellaneous
100
Who was the president of the US during WW2?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
100
Biggest battle in world history and turning point of WW2 in Europe
Stalingrad
100
Date that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
December 7th, 1941
100
The invasion of Alaska was a smaller part of this battle, in which Japan lost 4 carriers, and which was the turning point of the war in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
100
Name of the secret program to develop the atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
200
Name for the US program to give, loan, and sell weapons and supplies to their allies in WW2
Lend-Lease Program
200
Who was the British Prime Minister during WW2
Winston Churchill
200
This photo is of what event?
Raising of flag on Iwo Jima
200
This Alaska Native group was removed from their homes and placed in internment camps after the Japanese invasion
Aleuts
200
What was special about the 442 US infantry regiment?
Made up of Japanese-American soldiers, they were the most decorated unit in all US military history.
300
WW2 in Europe started in this year _______, when Germany invaded this country _________?
1939, Poland
300
Name for the battle between Great Britain and Germany for control of the skies over England in the first year of the war?
Battle of Britain
300
The biggest and most costly battle of the Pacific War, was this invasion?
The Invasion of Okinawa
300
Japan started their attack on Alaska by bombing this city?
Dutch Harbor
300
What is her name?
Rosie the Riveter
400
What was the name for the policy of giving Hitler part of Czechoslovakia in exchange for his promise to not take any more territory?
Appeasement
400
Name of the allied invasion of Africa
Operation Torch
400
This was the first naval battle in history where the ships never saw or fired on each other. It was fought exclusively with naval planes.
Battle of Coral Sea
400
The invasion of this island was the 2nd deadliest of the war in terms of percentage of Allied troops killed or wounded
Battle of Attu
400
Name for the famous squadron of Black-American fighter pilots
Tuskegee Airmen
500
Japan's invasion of this French colony, led to the U.S. oil embargo, which eventually pushed Japan to attacking the U.S.?
Vietnam or Indochina
500
Name of Germany's last offensive of the war against Allied troops in December of 1944
Battle of the Bulge
500
What does Kamikaze mean in Japanese
Divine Wind
500
The allies invaded this island only to find the Japanese had secretly evacuated it 3 weeks earlier
Kiska
500
In Feburary, 1945 FDR, Stalin and the British Prime Minster met at this conference (named after the Russian city where it took place) and discussed the plans to divide control of Germany after the war.
Yalta