WWII Overview
What 4 countries were a part of ther Allied Powers?
France, Great Britain, USSR, USA
What naval base was attacked by Japan and in what state is it located?
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Operation Overlord was the Allied invasion of where?
Western Europe
What was being tested at the Manhattan Project
Atomic Bomb
What was the uncrackable language used by code talkers on the Allied side of WWII?
Navajo
Who became the leaders of Germany and Italy?
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
Pearl Harbor Attack
Where was the landing of D-Day?
Normandy, France
What 2 Japanese cities was the Atomic Bombs dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japanese airplanes loaded with explosives making suicide missions onto the enemy.
Kamikazes
What action did the League of Nations do against Germany?
Nothing
What product was most impactful in the US embargo on Japan?
OIL
What was the name of the segregated, all black air force group that led many successful missions?
Tuskegee Airmen
What strategy was used by the Allied following victory at Midway?
Island Hopping
The German political principles of extreme nationalism, national expansion, and racial “purification”
Nazism
Was Spain a part of the Axis powers or the Allied Powers?
TRICK QUESTION!!!! They were Neutral
What was the Lend Lease policy?
The US would lend or lease weapons to countries whose defense was vital to the US
What was the major battle on the Eastern Front (Germany vs Soviet Union)
Battle of Stalingrad
Who was the primary Allied General in the Pacific?
Douglas MacArthur
Hatred of Jewish People
Anti-Semitism
What is the name of the Chinese Province Japan invaded?
Manchuria
There were three reasons we stayed Neutral at the start of WWII. Name 2 of them.
Involvement in WWI
Great Depression
Isolationism
What was Operation Torch
Allied invasion in Axis controlled North Africa
What was the Bataan Death March?
65 mile torture march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by Japanese Imperial army
A leadership system in which 1 political party has complete control with no opposition.
Totalitarian Government