World War 2

Question 1

Which battle involved aircraft carriers battling and neither side's ships sighting/firing directly on each other?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Coral Sea

Question 2

What kind of camp was Auschwitz?

Accepted Answer

Concentration

Question 3

Match the Country and title of that country's leader(s)

Accepted Answer

Emperor Hirohito, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, Japan

Question 4

Which of these is a theater of WW2?

Accepted Answer

Pacific Theater

Question 5

What were the two main Nuremberg Laws?

Accepted Answer

Jews couldn't marry Germans, Jewish citizens were not German citizens anymore

Question 6

How many killed were children?

Accepted Answer

1.1 million

Question 7

What was the name of the plane that carried the first atomic bomb to Japan?

Accepted Answer

Enola Gay

Question 8

What was the Manhatten Project?

Accepted Answer

The secret project of making atomic bombs

Question 9

What was the second atomic bomb called?

Accepted Answer

Fat Man

Question 10

Match the Country and title of that country's leader(s)

Accepted Answer

France, President Charles de Gaulle

Question 11

What was Phillip Johnson's code based on?

Accepted Answer

Navajo

Question 12

What was the first atomic bomb called?

Accepted Answer

Little Boy

Question 13

______ surrendered to _____ to end WW2.

Accepted Answer

US, Japan

Question 14

Which of these were a cause of World War II?

Accepted Answer

Fascism

Question 15

Which battle stopped the Germans from advancing into the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

The Battle of Stalingrad

Question 16

Which battle was the first air-sea battle in history?

Accepted Answer

The Battle of Coral Sea

Question 17

Which battle ended when the Germans couldn't gain air superiority over the British RAF?

Accepted Answer

The Battle of Britain

Question 18

Select the MAJOR Allied Powers from these countries:

Accepted Answer

France, Great Britain, China

Question 19

Which of these were a cause of World War II?

Accepted Answer

Japan Expansion

Question 20

Which battle was fought within the forest regions of France, Luxembourg, and Belgium?

Accepted Answer

The Battle of the Bulge

Question 21

Which battle involved Australia's air force and navy?

Accepted Answer

The Battle of Coral Sea

Question 22

What was the name of the battleship that was destroyed and now memorialized in Pearl Harbor?

Accepted Answer

USS Arizona

Question 23

Who was the pilot that flew Enola Gay?

Accepted Answer

Paul Tibbets

Question 24

Match the Country and title of that country's leader(s)

Accepted Answer

China, President Chiang Kai-shek

Question 25

What kind of camp was Monowitz?

Accepted Answer

Labor

Question 26

Which battle saw the Japanese fighting from an elaborate system of caves and underground tunnels?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Iwo Jima

Question 27

Which battle started based on the US Marine's need of a base near the Japanese coast?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Iwo Jima

Question 28

Match the Country and title of that country's leader(s)

Accepted Answer

Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, Italy

Question 29

What does Holocaust mean?

Accepted Answer

Sacrifice by fire

Question 30

Which of these were a cause of World War II?

Accepted Answer

Failure of Appeasement

Question 31

Who was Pearl Harbor invaded by?

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 32

What was the Land Lease Act?

Accepted Answer

Allows the President to aid any country deemed vital for the US defense

Question 33

How many people that died were Jews?

Accepted Answer

6 million

Question 34

How many people died in the Holocaust?

Accepted Answer

11 million

Question 35

What was the new weapon the Japanese used to attack Americans?

Accepted Answer

Kamikaze Raids

Question 36

What is a Jewish Ghetto?

Accepted Answer

A part of a city where a minority group live

Question 37

Where was the biggest Jewish Ghetto located?

Accepted Answer

Warsaw, Poland

Question 38

Which country did Germany invade to start the war?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 39

Which of these countries made up the Axis Powers?

Accepted Answer

Japan, Germany, Italy

Question 40

Which of these were a cause of World War II?

Accepted Answer

Hitler and the Nazi party

Question 41

Which battle was composed of British, Canadian, and American forces?

Accepted Answer

D-Day

Question 42

Which Prime Minister of Britain tried to appease Hitler?

Accepted Answer

Neville Chamberlain

Question 43

Where was the first bomb dropped? (specific)

Accepted Answer

Hiroshima

Question 44

Match the Country and title of that country's leader(s)

Accepted Answer

President Franklin Roosevelt, United States

Question 45

Which of these is a theater of WW2?

Accepted Answer

North African

Question 46

Where was the second bomb dropped? (specific)

Accepted Answer

Nagasaki

Question 47

Which of these is a theater of WW2?

Accepted Answer

Europe

Question 48

What was the Munich agreement?

Accepted Answer

The settlement reached by GB/FR/IT/GR that let GR take the sudentland

Question 49

Select the MAJOR Allied Powers from these countries:

Accepted Answer

United States, China, Russia

Question 50

Which of these were a cause of World War II?

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Versailles

Question 51

What kind of camp was Birkenau?

Accepted Answer

Extermination

Question 52

Match the Country and title of that country's leader(s)

Accepted Answer

Russia, Premier Stalin

Question 53

Match the Country and title of that country's leader(s)

Accepted Answer

Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Germany

Question 54

Which side was America on in WW2?

Accepted Answer

Allied

Question 55

What was the name of the place that dropped the second bomb on Japan?

Accepted Answer

Bock's Car

Question 56

Why did Japan attack the US?

Accepted Answer

The US froze their assets, The US kept telling them off for invading China

Question 57

Which of these were a cause of World War II?

Accepted Answer

Economic Issues, The Great Depression

Question 58

What event during WW2 signals the start of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

The dropping of the atomic bomb

Question 59

Match the Country and title of that country's leader(s)

Accepted Answer

Great Britain, Prime Minister Winston Churchhill, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

Question 60

What were Jews forced to wear after WW2 started?

Accepted Answer

Gold Star of David

Question 61

What was Hitler's final solution?

Accepted Answer

To annihilate the Jewish race by gassing, shooting, etc

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