World War II

The Origins

100

A racist, German form of fascism based on extreme nationalism and the creation of a superior race?

What is Nazism?

200

The attack on this naval base led the U.S. to declare war on Japan

What is Pearl Harbor

300

The act of aggression by Germany that OFFICIALLY started World War II in September 1939

What is the Invasion of Poland?

400

Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor. Allowed Germany to gain territory before the war without interference from France or Britain.

What is Appeasement

500

Name 3 Axis countries and the leader of each. Name 3 Allied countries and the leader of each.

What is Germany (Hitler), Italy (Mussolini), and Japan (Hirohito). U.S. (Roosevelt), Great Britain (Churchill), and Soviet Union (Stalin).

Homefront

100

This group of people was required to work more as soldiers were taken oversea to fight.

Who were Women?

200

Japanese Americans were relocated to internments because of possible disloyalty due to this government command.

What is Executive Order 9066

300

In order to send enough supplies to the troops and to keep life at home fair, ________ was implemented. Families also planted ________ to grow extra food.

What were Rationing and Victory Gardens

400

This government agency produced propaganda to promote the war effort at home and abroad.

What is Office of War Information

500

This government agency decided which companies would convert to war production. It also organized the importation of temporary laborers from Mexico under the _______ Program

What is War Production Board, Bracero

Fighting

100

Allied strategy to move across the Pacific Ocean, closer to mainland Japan

What is Island Hopping

200

The battle at this island was the turning point of the war in the Pacific. The American forces devastated Japanese forces here.

What is Midway

300

What was the purpose of D-Day?

What is Push German forces out of France and liberate Paris

400

1. The two cities on which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs. 2. Reason for using bombs

What are 1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2. Prevent large loss of U.S. soldiers if conventional warfare were to be used

500

The forcible transfer of 60,000 to 80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war in the Philippines. Thousands died before they could reach their destination after enduring 80 miles of physical abuse, starvation, dehydration, and exhaustion.

What is Bataan Death March

Aftermath

100

V-E Day stands for _________ and was celebrated after the Soviets took Berlin and Hitler _________.

What is Victory in Europe Day, committed suicide

200

This organization was created at the end of WWII to maintain peace and protect the world from aggressive dictators. American joined it (unlike the previous League of Nations)

What is the United Nations?

300

The Marshall Plan's main goal

What is Rebuild Europe to keep it from communist influence

400

Supreme Commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific. Officially accepted Japan’s surrender and oversaw the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951

What is Douglas MacArthur

500

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in February 1945 to discuss the postwar world. Name the event, what was to be done with Germany, and the problem that later surfaced with this decision.

What is Yalta Conference. Germany would be divided into four zones occupied by U.S. Britain, France, and Soviet Union. Cold War hostilities made the division of Germany a tense democracy vs. communism situation.

Miscellaneous

100

Code name of the development of the atomic bomb

What is Manhattan Project

200

At the beginning of World War II, most Americans didn't want to get involved in another international conflict. This feeling is described as

What is Isolationism

300

The Lend-Lease Act did this

What is U.S. would lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country whose defense was vital to U.S. interests (mainly Britain)

400

The Holocaust was the systematic murder of _____ (#) people, including ____ Jews. Name three other groups targeted.

What is 11 million, 6 million. Homosexuals, gypsies, mentally disabled, physically disabled, incurably ill.

500

1. All-black squadron of pilots who fought in Italy 2. Native Americans recruited to transmit secret tactical messages in their native languages 3. Volunteer group charged with defending China against Japanese forces

What is 1. Tuskegee Airmen 2. Navajo Code Talkers 3. Flying Tigers