The Allied Powers included these nations...

US, France, Britain, China, Australia, Canada

D-Day, June 6, 1944 was the day...

Allies invaded Normandy, France

VE Day, May 8, 1945...

Germany surrenders, victory in Europe

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1
Japanese suicide bombers
Bokos
Kamikazes
Anti-Semitic
Guerillas
2
US General on the Philippines, promised to return after being told to leave by the President.
General Omar Bradley
General Sherman
General MacArthur
General James Patrick McDonald
3
Name of the plane which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan
Bismark
Hiroshima
Enola Gay
Kamikaze
4
lightning warfare used speed and surprise coordinating tanks, planes, and infantry
Kamikaze
Guerilla Warfare
Arial assault
Blitzkrieg
5
Japan suffered huge defeat losing 4 carriers and 200 planes - one turning point of WWII
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Philippines
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal
6
someone who takes the blame for something
Nazi
Chamberlain
Fascist
scapegoat
7
US Admiral who commanded the US Pacific Fleet - won at Midway
Bradley
Nimitz
Patton
MacArthur
8
Turing point of war largest amphibious invasion in history
Freedom of France
D-Day/Overlord
Battle of Berlin
Atlantic Wall
9
The Desert Fox - German general knows for ability in the desert and use of tanks
Mengele
Himmler
Rommel
Goering
10
The Japanese cities where the atomic bombs were dropped
Nagasaki and Tokyo
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Tokyo and Munich
Hiroshima and Stalingrad
11
Name of Great Britain's Air Force in WWII
160th S.O.A.R.
Army Air Korps
Luftwaffe
Royal Air Force (RAF)
12
US General who directed the Allied invasion of Europe
Patton
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Bradley
13
Dr. Death
Henrich Himmler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Mengele
Joseph Stalin
14
This German unit used its planes to bomb London and other cities at the beginning of the war
LuftWaffel
German Panzer Division
German Luftwaffe
German U-boats
15
Allied commander for D-Day invasion, eventually became President of the US
General Schwarzkopf
General Westmoreland
General Eisenhower
General Kennedy
16
British Prime Minister during most of WWII. Said appeasement wouldn't work!!
Prince William
Winston Churchill
Sir Paul McCartney
Neville Chamberlain
17
Turning point of war in the east pushed Germans from Soviet Union
Battle of Volga River
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle for Moscow
Battle of Leningrad
18
British General who won at El Alamein
Patton
Chamberlain
Churchill
Montgomery
19
British General who defeated Rommel in North Africa
Chamberlain
McCartney
Montgomery
Osbourne
20
Cause of US entry into WWII
Germans bombed Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
Communism
Great Recession of 1929
21
Communist leader of Soviet Union during WWII
M.O. Kopitzke
John Lenin
Joseph Lenin
Joseph Stalin
22
Who was the US President during most of WWII?
Elenor Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
23
On land and water
solar
amphibious
techtonic
marine
24
German submarine tactic.
Lone Wolf
Wolf Den
Howling Wolf
Wolf Pack
25
Code name for German invasion of Soviet Union
Operation Overlord
"Irene"
Manhattan Project
Barbarossa
26
prejudice or hatred toward the Jews
anti-aircraft
anti-semitic
anti-religious
anti-dote
27
Where Rommel's Afrika Korps was defeated by the Allies
Bikini Atoll
El Alamein(2)
Philippines
Bastone
28
The top secret program conducted by the US to develop atomic weapons
Siege of Bastogne
Normandy Project
Atlantic Charter
Manhattan Project
29
the policy of appeasement worked with Hitler and works with bullies, give them what they want
true
false
30
Turning point where Hitler/Rommel lost, army forced to leave North Africa
Battle of the Ardennes
Battle of Egypt
Second Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Suez Canal
31
Turning point of war when the Luftwaffe couldn't conquer Great Britain - Hitler's first loss
Battle of the Air Ways
Battle of the English Channel
The Blitz - Battle of Britain
Battle of the Irish Sea
32
Germany's occupation, free elections, Poland's borders, peace keeping organization decided at
Suez Peace Talks
Paris Peace Talks
Yalta
Potsdam Conference
33
US attacks on Tokyo and other cities where bombers took off from carriers at sea.
MacArthur Raids
The Great Raid
Nimitz Bombing Run
Doolittle Raids
34
This allowed the sale or lease of war materials to countries needing our help according to FDR
Lend-Purchase Act
Soft Sale Act
Rent-All Agreement
Lend-Lease Act
35
Forced 100 mile march of American and Filipino POWs by the Japanese, with little food or water
Celebrity Death Match
Philippine Death March
Bataan Death March
Tokyo Road March
36
US strategy in which they captured some islands but skipped over others that were not of military importance
island hopping
leap frogging
rough housing
hopscotching
37
The battleship was the most important weapon, but this allowed planes to take off and land.
The Enola Gay
air craft carriers
U-boats
radar
38
Soviet leader during WWII
Novitzke
Kopitzke
Stalin
Trotsky
39
The Allied Powers included these nations...
US, Soviet Union, Germany, Canada, France
US, France, Britain, China, Australia, Canada
Italy, Soviet Union, US, Canada
Austria, US, Soviet Union, China, Britain
40
"The Desert Fox" - German General known for his ability with tanks in the desert
Major General Carl F. Foemmel
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Field Marshall Erwin R. Rommel
Brigadier General Heath A. Novitzke
41
US President during most of WWII
Kennedy
Truman
FDR
Teddy Roosevelt
42
Port city where over 300,000 British and French evacuated Europe
Dunkirk
Berlin
London
Paris
43
D-Day, June 6, 1944 was the day...
Japan surrendered
Germans bombed Pearl Harbor
Hitler surrendered
Allies invaded Normandy, France
44
This group was relocated to internment camps during the war for fear they would spy
Japanese Americans
Russian Americans
Italian Americans
German Americans
45
Turning point in Pacific - Japan lost 4 carriers and 200 planes, US now controlled main islands
Battle of Iwo Jima
Guadalcanal
Battle of Midway
Battle of Coral Sea
46
First major naval battle, planes used carriers and we prevented Japan from taking Port Moseby
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Guadalcanal
Battle of Philippines
Battle of Coral Sea
47
the killing of millions of Jews during WWII
The Holocaust
Extermination Experiment
Hitler's Ultimate Plan
Seize of Bastone
48
Nazi leader of Germany and reason for WWII
Josef Stalin
Neville Chamberlain
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
49
VE Day, May 8, 1945...
Germany surrenders, victory in Europe
The Japanese surrender, victory in Europe
Hitler surrendered
we dropped "Little Boy" on Kawasaki
50
Name the Prime Minister of Britain during most of WWII.
Rommel
Chamberlain
Churchill
Montgomery
51
Code name for the invasion of Europe by the Allies
Overlord
Barbarossa
"Tropic Thunder"
"Rolling Thunder"
52
Last German offensive of WWII which took place in the Ardennes Forest. Germany lost.
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Stalingrad
Annexation of Austria
Battle of Britain
53
Describe how the death camps operated.
experiments were performed on the elderly and their spouse
Jewish people were starved in a long, slow death
gas chambers killed those too weak to work, then burned
Jewish people were forced into the Nazi army or killed
54
Name the American victories in the Pacific
Auschwitz and Leyte Gulf
Stalingrad, Battle of Berlin, Bastone
Doolittle Raids, Battle of the Bulge
Midway, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Okinawa
55
WWII started on September 1, 1939 because...
Germany invaded Poland
Japan attacked China
The Jews invaded Germany
Germany bombed Pearl Harbor
56
Germany and Soviet Union agreement not to attack each other, divide Poland, avoid two front war
Nazi-Kamikaze Pact
Hitler-Stalin Plan
Soviet-Austrian Pact
Nazi-Soviet Pact
57
Describe Hitler's last days of the war...
escaped to Switerland
living in the Alps high in the mountains
underground bunker in Berlin, committed suicide
escaped safely to Austria
58
the Final Solution was...
Stalin killing all Jews in Europe
Hitler taking over Poland
Hitler eliminating Jews in Europe in death camps
Hitler's pefect race
59
US President who made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan
Andrew Jackson
Harry S. Truman
JFK
Franklin D. Roosevelt
60
The Axis Powers included the following nations...
Soviet Union, China, Japan, Philippines
Japan, Germany, Italy, Russia
Japan, Italy, Germany
Poland, Austria, Germany, Japan
61
strategy of capturing strategic islands and skipping others used in Pacific by the US
Island dancing
Island Hopping
Hopscotching
Hop Around
62
The Potsdam Declaration told Japan to...
give the Philippines back
give up their nukes
get off the island
surrender or face total destruction
63
Why did President Truman drop the atomic bombs on Japan?
save US lives, end war fast, show our power to the world
show off to Russia, destroy Japan's water supply
end war quickly, embarass the Japanese
embarrass Japan, kill as many Japaneses as possible
64
Political system/type of government in which the government controls every aspect of life
totalitarian
democracy
oligarchy
socialism
65
Type of government in which the government is more important than the individual, usually has a military leader
fascism
democracy
communism
socialism
66
Which European nation was not conquered by the Nazis during the war
France
Austria
Great Britain
Poland
67
US General forced to retreat from Philippines but later returned to free Philippines from Japan
Patton
MacArthur
Schwarzkopf
Monty
68
Which was not a Nazi death/concentration camp?
Bastone
Treblinka
Dachau
Auschwitz
69
bombing campaign of Japanese cities that did little militarily, but let the Japanese know we could get to them.
Patton's Pounding
Doolittle Raids
Bradley's Beating
Nimitz's Noize
70
After the war, the trials of Axis leaders who commited war crimes during WWII
Nuremburg Trials
Geneva Convention
Manhattan War Trials
Munich Trials
71
Most important weapon used during the war
U-boats
tanks
atomic bombs
battleship
72
Why were Hiroshima and Nagasaki chosen for the atomic bomb?
center of the arts, education, and olympic teams
they were important military installations
educated people lived there
they were not hit in the Doolittle Raids
73
Admiral of the US Pacific fleet - in WWII-Navy
Admiral William Clay Mathews III
Admiral Chester William Nimitz
Admiral Jacob William Ryan
Admiral Vincent James Biegel
74
Giving Hitler the land he wanted when he promised he'd take no more was the...
failure of appeasement
right thing to do
United Nations
Potsdam Promise
75
Fierce house to house fighting, loss of many soldiers, and cold winter allowed Soviets to win
Battle of Normandy
Battle of Yalta
Battle of Berlin
Battle of Stalingrad
76
German defense system on western coast of France containing mines, barbed wire, machine guns
Yalta Wall
Atlantic Wall
Atlantic Charter
Potsdam Declaration
77
US agency which helped factories change to war producing factories
Liberty Bonds Board
Selective Service Act
War Production Board
Lend-Lease Act
78
Leader with complete control and power
Fuhrer
Chancellor
Prime Minister
dictator

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1
Japanese suicide bombers
Bokos
Kamikazes
Anti-Semitic
Guerillas
2
US General on the Philippines, promised to return after being told to leave by the President.
General Omar Bradley
General Sherman
General MacArthur
General James Patrick McDonald
3
Name of the plane which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan
Bismark
Hiroshima
Enola Gay
Kamikaze
4
lightning warfare used speed and surprise coordinating tanks, planes, and infantry
Kamikaze
Guerilla Warfare
Arial assault
Blitzkrieg
5
Japan suffered huge defeat losing 4 carriers and 200 planes - one turning point of WWII
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Philippines
Battle of Midway
Battle of Guadalcanal
6
someone who takes the blame for something
Nazi
Chamberlain
Fascist
scapegoat
7
US Admiral who commanded the US Pacific Fleet - won at Midway
Bradley
Nimitz
Patton
MacArthur
8
Turing point of war largest amphibious invasion in history
Freedom of France
D-Day/Overlord
Battle of Berlin
Atlantic Wall
9
The Desert Fox - German general knows for ability in the desert and use of tanks
Mengele
Himmler
Rommel
Goering
10
The Japanese cities where the atomic bombs were dropped
Nagasaki and Tokyo
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Tokyo and Munich
Hiroshima and Stalingrad
11
Name of Great Britain's Air Force in WWII
160th S.O.A.R.
Army Air Korps
Luftwaffe
Royal Air Force (RAF)
12
US General who directed the Allied invasion of Europe
Patton
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Bradley
13
Dr. Death
Henrich Himmler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Mengele
Joseph Stalin
14
This German unit used its planes to bomb London and other cities at the beginning of the war
LuftWaffel
German Panzer Division
German Luftwaffe
German U-boats
15
Allied commander for D-Day invasion, eventually became President of the US
General Schwarzkopf
General Westmoreland
General Eisenhower
General Kennedy
16
British Prime Minister during most of WWII. Said appeasement wouldn't work!!
Prince William
Winston Churchill
Sir Paul McCartney
Neville Chamberlain
17
Turning point of war in the east pushed Germans from Soviet Union
Battle of Volga River
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle for Moscow
Battle of Leningrad
18
British General who won at El Alamein
Patton
Chamberlain
Churchill
Montgomery
19
British General who defeated Rommel in North Africa
Chamberlain
McCartney
Montgomery
Osbourne
20
Cause of US entry into WWII
Germans bombed Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
Communism
Great Recession of 1929
21
Communist leader of Soviet Union during WWII
M.O. Kopitzke
John Lenin
Joseph Lenin
Joseph Stalin
22
Who was the US President during most of WWII?
Elenor Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
23
On land and water
solar
amphibious
techtonic
marine
24
German submarine tactic.
Lone Wolf
Wolf Den
Howling Wolf
Wolf Pack
25
Code name for German invasion of Soviet Union
Operation Overlord
"Irene"
Manhattan Project
Barbarossa
26
prejudice or hatred toward the Jews
anti-aircraft
anti-semitic
anti-religious
anti-dote
27
Where Rommel's Afrika Korps was defeated by the Allies
Bikini Atoll
El Alamein(2)
Philippines
Bastone
28
The top secret program conducted by the US to develop atomic weapons
Siege of Bastogne
Normandy Project
Atlantic Charter
Manhattan Project
29
the policy of appeasement worked with Hitler and works with bullies, give them what they want
true
false
30
Turning point where Hitler/Rommel lost, army forced to leave North Africa
Battle of the Ardennes
Battle of Egypt
Second Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Suez Canal
31
Turning point of war when the Luftwaffe couldn't conquer Great Britain - Hitler's first loss
Battle of the Air Ways
Battle of the English Channel
The Blitz - Battle of Britain
Battle of the Irish Sea
32
Germany's occupation, free elections, Poland's borders, peace keeping organization decided at
Suez Peace Talks
Paris Peace Talks
Yalta
Potsdam Conference
33
US attacks on Tokyo and other cities where bombers took off from carriers at sea.
MacArthur Raids
The Great Raid
Nimitz Bombing Run
Doolittle Raids
34
This allowed the sale or lease of war materials to countries needing our help according to FDR
Lend-Purchase Act
Soft Sale Act
Rent-All Agreement
Lend-Lease Act
35
Forced 100 mile march of American and Filipino POWs by the Japanese, with little food or water
Celebrity Death Match
Philippine Death March
Bataan Death March
Tokyo Road March
36
US strategy in which they captured some islands but skipped over others that were not of military importance
island hopping
leap frogging
rough housing
hopscotching
37
The battleship was the most important weapon, but this allowed planes to take off and land.
The Enola Gay
air craft carriers
U-boats
radar
38
Soviet leader during WWII
Novitzke
Kopitzke
Stalin
Trotsky
39
The Allied Powers included these nations...
US, Soviet Union, Germany, Canada, France
US, France, Britain, China, Australia, Canada
Italy, Soviet Union, US, Canada
Austria, US, Soviet Union, China, Britain
40
"The Desert Fox" - German General known for his ability with tanks in the desert
Major General Carl F. Foemmel
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Field Marshall Erwin R. Rommel
Brigadier General Heath A. Novitzke
41
US President during most of WWII
Kennedy
Truman
FDR
Teddy Roosevelt
42
Port city where over 300,000 British and French evacuated Europe
Dunkirk
Berlin
London
Paris
43
D-Day, June 6, 1944 was the day...
Japan surrendered
Germans bombed Pearl Harbor
Hitler surrendered
Allies invaded Normandy, France
44
This group was relocated to internment camps during the war for fear they would spy
Japanese Americans
Russian Americans
Italian Americans
German Americans
45
Turning point in Pacific - Japan lost 4 carriers and 200 planes, US now controlled main islands
Battle of Iwo Jima
Guadalcanal
Battle of Midway
Battle of Coral Sea
46
First major naval battle, planes used carriers and we prevented Japan from taking Port Moseby
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Guadalcanal
Battle of Philippines
Battle of Coral Sea
47
the killing of millions of Jews during WWII
The Holocaust
Extermination Experiment
Hitler's Ultimate Plan
Seize of Bastone
48
Nazi leader of Germany and reason for WWII
Josef Stalin
Neville Chamberlain
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
49
VE Day, May 8, 1945...
Germany surrenders, victory in Europe
The Japanese surrender, victory in Europe
Hitler surrendered
we dropped "Little Boy" on Kawasaki
50
Name the Prime Minister of Britain during most of WWII.
Rommel
Chamberlain
Churchill
Montgomery
51
Code name for the invasion of Europe by the Allies
Overlord
Barbarossa
"Tropic Thunder"
"Rolling Thunder"
52
Last German offensive of WWII which took place in the Ardennes Forest. Germany lost.
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Stalingrad
Annexation of Austria
Battle of Britain
53
Describe how the death camps operated.
experiments were performed on the elderly and their spouse
Jewish people were starved in a long, slow death
gas chambers killed those too weak to work, then burned
Jewish people were forced into the Nazi army or killed
54
Name the American victories in the Pacific
Auschwitz and Leyte Gulf
Stalingrad, Battle of Berlin, Bastone
Doolittle Raids, Battle of the Bulge
Midway, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Okinawa
55
WWII started on September 1, 1939 because...
Germany invaded Poland
Japan attacked China
The Jews invaded Germany
Germany bombed Pearl Harbor
56
Germany and Soviet Union agreement not to attack each other, divide Poland, avoid two front war
Nazi-Kamikaze Pact
Hitler-Stalin Plan
Soviet-Austrian Pact
Nazi-Soviet Pact
57
Describe Hitler's last days of the war...
escaped to Switerland
living in the Alps high in the mountains
underground bunker in Berlin, committed suicide
escaped safely to Austria
58
the Final Solution was...
Stalin killing all Jews in Europe
Hitler taking over Poland
Hitler eliminating Jews in Europe in death camps
Hitler's pefect race
59
US President who made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan
Andrew Jackson
Harry S. Truman
JFK
Franklin D. Roosevelt
60
The Axis Powers included the following nations...
Soviet Union, China, Japan, Philippines
Japan, Germany, Italy, Russia
Japan, Italy, Germany
Poland, Austria, Germany, Japan
61
strategy of capturing strategic islands and skipping others used in Pacific by the US
Island dancing
Island Hopping
Hopscotching
Hop Around
62
The Potsdam Declaration told Japan to...
give the Philippines back
give up their nukes
get off the island
surrender or face total destruction
63
Why did President Truman drop the atomic bombs on Japan?
save US lives, end war fast, show our power to the world
show off to Russia, destroy Japan's water supply
end war quickly, embarass the Japanese
embarrass Japan, kill as many Japaneses as possible
64
Political system/type of government in which the government controls every aspect of life
totalitarian
democracy
oligarchy
socialism
65
Type of government in which the government is more important than the individual, usually has a military leader
fascism
democracy
communism
socialism
66
Which European nation was not conquered by the Nazis during the war
France
Austria
Great Britain
Poland
67
US General forced to retreat from Philippines but later returned to free Philippines from Japan
Patton
MacArthur
Schwarzkopf
Monty
68
Which was not a Nazi death/concentration camp?
Bastone
Treblinka
Dachau
Auschwitz
69
bombing campaign of Japanese cities that did little militarily, but let the Japanese know we could get to them.
Patton's Pounding
Doolittle Raids
Bradley's Beating
Nimitz's Noize
70
After the war, the trials of Axis leaders who commited war crimes during WWII
Nuremburg Trials
Geneva Convention
Manhattan War Trials
Munich Trials
71
Most important weapon used during the war
U-boats
tanks
atomic bombs
battleship
72
Why were Hiroshima and Nagasaki chosen for the atomic bomb?
center of the arts, education, and olympic teams
they were important military installations
educated people lived there
they were not hit in the Doolittle Raids
73
Admiral of the US Pacific fleet - in WWII-Navy
Admiral William Clay Mathews III
Admiral Chester William Nimitz
Admiral Jacob William Ryan
Admiral Vincent James Biegel
74
Giving Hitler the land he wanted when he promised he'd take no more was the...
failure of appeasement
right thing to do
United Nations
Potsdam Promise
75
Fierce house to house fighting, loss of many soldiers, and cold winter allowed Soviets to win
Battle of Normandy
Battle of Yalta
Battle of Berlin
Battle of Stalingrad
76
German defense system on western coast of France containing mines, barbed wire, machine guns
Yalta Wall
Atlantic Wall
Atlantic Charter
Potsdam Declaration
77
US agency which helped factories change to war producing factories
Liberty Bonds Board
Selective Service Act
War Production Board
Lend-Lease Act
78
Leader with complete control and power
Fuhrer
Chancellor
Prime Minister
dictator