Pre 1941
Pearl Harbor & D-Day
Misc.
War in the Pacific
Random
100
He was the fascist leader of Germany from 1933- 1945 when he committed suicide.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
This is the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is December 7, 1941?
100
The D-Day invasion was planned by and lead by this man.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
100
This person was the commander of all land based soldiers in the Pacific.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
100
The fighting for this small island was fierce. The island was important for its airfield. Known as "sulfur island" a famous photo of a flag raising took place here.
What is Iwo Jima?
200
He was the fascist leader of Italy in the 1930s; used the blackshirts to intimidate people.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
200
This is the date of the D-Day invasion.
What is June 6, 1944?
200
This battle was unique in that it was fought entirely in the air.
What is the Battle of Britain?
200
This person led the first bombing raids on Tokyo.
Who was James Doolittle?
200
The first soldiers to invade France arrived by these two methods.
What are gliders and parachutes?
300
At this meeting, Great Britain's Neville Chamberlain and France's Eduoard Daladier signed a pact with Hitler. Hitler stated his only additional land claim was the Sudetenland.
What was the Munich Conference?
300
The US was fortunate not to lose any of these during the Pearl Harbor attack.
What are aircraft carriers?
300
This was the name of Hitler's style of attack in Europe. Means "lightning war."
What is blitzkrieg?
300
This battle was the turning point in the war in the Pacific. After the US won, Japan made no further advances and the US got closer and closer to Tokyo.
What is the Battle of Midway?
300
This is the name of Hitler's autobiography in which he outlines his ideas for Germany and Jews in Europe.
What is Mein Kampf?
400
World War II officially started when Hitler invaded this nation.
What is Poland?
400
The US took these two beaches during the D-Day invasion.
What is Omaha & Utah beach?
400
This is the stance the US took during the 1930s in regard to the events (Hitler taking over different nations) taking place in Europe in the 1930s.
What is isolationism?
400
US prisoners of war were forced on a long march here by the Japanese-- many died from the conditions or were killed by their captors.
What is Bataan?
400
The US's first invasion in the Atlantic Theater was at this place.
What is North Africa?
500
This was built after World War I order to prevent the Germans from invading France.
What is the Maginot Line?
500
Hitler and most others believed the Allied invasion would occur at this place.
What is Calais?
500
British troops were trapped between the Germany Army and the English channel here.
What is Dunkirk?
500
1,900 kamikaze attacks took place here. The fighting here was probably the most costly and deadly of the war.
What is Okinawa?
500
The defenses built by the Nazis in northern France to prevent invasion were called this.
What is the Atlantic Wall?
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