Battles
Who out of the Allied and Axis Powers won in Operation Overlord?
The Allied Powers won.
Who was the leader of the United States?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Which two countries planned Operation Overlord?
Great Britain and America
Which country did Benito Mussolini take over in 1935
Ethiopia
What was the name of the secret project that created the atomic bomb?
The Manhattan Project
What was the battle that contained the highest number of casualties in WWII?
Operation Overlord / D-Day
Who was the leader of Germany?
Adolf Hitler
What was Operation Torch?
It was an offensive attack against the Afrika Corps.
Why did Hitler try to take the Sudetenland?
Hitler wanted to unite all of the Germans and because ethnic Germans lived there he thought he needed to take it over.
What officially started WWII?
Germany attacked Poland and made the other European powers realise that Hitler was not going to stop his expansion.
What two inventions allowed the Allies to win the Battle of the Atlantic?
Radar and Sonar.
Who was the leader of Great Britain?
Winston Churchill
Which Allied power defeated the German Air Force?
Great Britain defeated the German Air Force in the Battle of Britain.
Which Axis Power bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941.
Japan
Which country had the most casualties in WWII?
The USSR
How many men did the Allies use during the storming of Normandy?
3 million men.
Who was the leader of Japan?
Hideki Tojo
Which two Japanese cities did America drop the atomic bombs on?
Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Which territory of China did Japan take over in 1931?
Manchuria
What was the strategy that Germany used to take Poland?
Blitzkrieg
What was the Battle that ended Germany's fight in WWII?
The Battle of the Bulge
Who was the leader of the USSR in WWII?
Joseph Stalin
What did Britain and France do to avoid conflict with Germany before the war started?
They made the Munich Pact which gave Germany the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from Hitler.
What was the name of the operation where Germany invaded the USSR?
Operation Barbarossa.
Who replaced Franklin D. Roosevelt after he died in April 1945?
Harry S. Truman