WW2 - 8th Grade

Question 1

Who Is the following picture of?

Accepted Answer

Stalin

Question 2

Battle that happened in the Pacific & was famous for the flag raising scene (You saw it in DC)

Accepted Answer

Battle of Iwo Jima

Question 3

Japan invaded this area in 1931 in an attempt to gain control of more resources.

Accepted Answer

Manchuria

Question 4

To yield or concede to the demands in an effort to keep peace

Accepted Answer

Appease

Question 5

Failure of this lead to WW2

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Versailles

Question 6

Where Japanese Americans were forced to stay after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Accepted Answer

Internment Camps

Question 7

The landmark Supreme Court Case about the constitutionality of the Japanese Internment camps

Accepted Answer

Korematsu V. US

Question 8

Lightning warfare of Nazi’s – bombs, tanks, andvery fast

Accepted Answer

Blitzkrieg

Question 9

Why did Russia end up fighting against Germany?

Accepted Answer

Germany violated the Nazi-Soviet pact

Question 10

Where were the drop spots for the Atomic Bomb?

Accepted Answer

Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Question 11

On what date did the Japanese attack the American Pacific Naval Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?

Accepted Answer

December 7, 1941

Question 12

Italy invaded this country in 1935 in an attempt at becoming an imperialist world power

Accepted Answer

Ethiopia

Question 13

Which group of Americans had their Constitutional rights violated during the war?

Accepted Answer

Japanese Americans

Question 14

The leader of Great Britain for most of WW2 was

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 15

What does VE day stand for?

Accepted Answer

Victory in Europe

Question 16

Which of the following leaders was not considered a totalitarian leader?

Accepted Answer

Churchill

Question 17

What country/area did the Nazi’s NOT acquire during appeasement?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 18

Which of the following was NOT a way that Americans helped on the home front

Accepted Answer

Spending life savings

Question 19

The four freedoms speech included all EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Petition

Question 20

When Germany electedHitler in 1933, the country was

Accepted Answer

In economic turmoil

Question 21

Which US President authorized the dropping of the Atomic Bombs?

Accepted Answer

Harry S. Truman

Question 22

When did the US finally enter the war?

Accepted Answer

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Question 23

What countries were part of the Axis powers?

Accepted Answer

Germany, Japan, Italy

Question 24

What is the spreading of ideas to help support a cause?

Accepted Answer

Propaganda

Question 25

Leader of Italy:

Accepted Answer

Mussolini

Question 26

World War 2 began when Germany invaded what country?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 27

The cash-and-carry philosophy claimed what?

Accepted Answer

Countries needed to pay cash & use their own ships to carry

Question 28

Great Britain and the US signed what agreement for supplies

Accepted Answer

Lend-Lease

Question 29

What was the order FDR declared to move Japanese Americans?

Accepted Answer

9066

Question 30

The Allied Powers included:

Accepted Answer

Great Britain, Soviet Union, USA

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