LSA WH World War Two: 1942-1945

The USSR alone lost 23 million dead, but total casualties for all nations in WWII were over:

In January 1942 Nazi officials met here to plan "the final solution" to the "Jewish problem."

The U.S. Navy used "magic" to help win this decisive June 1942 victory over the Japanese.

By 1945, firebombing by these massive U.S. bombers had reduced most Japanese cities to ashes.

Douglas MacArthur led the island hopping campaign in the south; the northern commander was:

Allied leaders met here in February 1945 & agreed to demand Germany surrender unconditionally.

The Nazis constructed death camps all across Europe, but the most infamous of these was ______.

All of the following were Allied strategic bomber types in the air war over Germany EXCEPT:

After finally breaking out of the Normandy beachhead, the Allies freed this city Aug. 25, 1944.

This 1942 German U-Boat operation sunk dozens of Allied merchant ships off the U.S. east coast.

Even on VE Day, this bloodiest battle of the Pacific War was dragging into its second month.

The German 6th Army's February 1943 surrender here was the turning point on the Eastern Front.

After a second atomic bombing the Japanese surrendered, making ________ VJ Day and ending WWII.

This 1943 Eastern Front battle was the largest ever: 6000 tanks, 4000 aircraft & 2 million men.

The "final solution" the Wannsee planners decided upon was _________.

Though it became known simply as D-Day, the code name for the Allied invasion was _________.

The Japanese navy's loss of _________ at Midway was a blow from which it never fully recovered.

His death in April 1945 left America facing the end of the war with an inexperienced leader.

On Aug. 6, 1945, B-29 Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on this Japanese city, killing 80,000.

The North Africa invasion, designed to trap Rommel's Afrika Corps, was code named _________.

In July 1945 the U.S. successfully detonated the first atomic bomb in a test code named _____. 

The key to the Allies gradually turning the tide and winning the Battle of the Atlantic was:

The Allies held post-war trials of Nazis accused of war crimes in this German city.

Known as the "angel of death," this infamous SS doctor at Auschwitz had an interest in twins.

Germany held on to hope during Spring 1945 thanks to all the following "wonder weapons" EXCEPT:

Of the Nazis who oversaw the Holocaust, how many were sentenced to death at Nuremberg and hung?

By mid-1942, Britain was beginning to experience major supply shortages due to:

All of the following were among the code named invasion beaches on D-Day EXCEPT:

The Pacific War between the Allies & Japan was doubly brutal due to this Japanese philosophy.

Surrounded in Berlin by the Red Army, Hitler committed suicide here on April 30, 1945.

On April 25, 1945, U.S. & Soviet troops linked up here, effectively splitting Germany in half.

This ancient Italian monastery was bombed by the Allies in an attempt to drive the Germans out.

U.S. and Philippine forces had held out 3 months on Luzon, making their final stand at _____.

By 1945, with 363 wartime raids, this would become the most heavily bombed city in Europe. 

After Guadalcanal U.S. forces adopted this strategy to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific.

After the U.S. & Filipino surrender, many prisoners died on the infamous death march here.

The next day the Allies began the long-awaited second front in Europe by invading France here.

After driving the Axis from N. Africa, Allied forces next launched an invasion of Europe here.

Hopes the war might be over by Christmas were crushed by this December 1944 German offensive.

All of these islands were invaded & taken by U.S. forces in the island hopping campaign EXCEPT:

Auschwitz and all other Nazi death camps featured all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:

U.S. forces invaded this Japanese island in 1942 in their first land offensive in the Pacific. 

This Axis-held capital city was finally liberated by the Allies on June 5, 1944.

All of the following were regular targets of the Allied strategic bombing campaign EXCEPT:

A key organizer of the Holocaust, he was kidnapped from Argentina and hung in Israel in 1962.

The ongoing struggle between Allied naval and merchant ships and German U-Boats was called the:

This U.S. tank commander first made a name for himself in the N. Africa fight against Rommel.

All of the following were Allied single-engine fighter types of World War Two EXCEPT:

Germany surrendered soon afterward, making this date "Victory in Europe" Day.

This new U.S. president, a former Missouri senator, had only been vice president for 82 days.

All of the following Pacific territory was under Japanese control by mid-1942 EXCEPT:

The Allies' 1942 invasion here marked the first joint U.S/U.K offensive on the Western Front.

The sudden surrender of this Axis ally in September 1943 caught the Germans by surprise.

The Japanese used this desperation tactic increasingly against the Okinawa invasion fleet.