World War II

Who is the dictator of Japan that later becomes the prime minister?

Hideki Tojo

What was the name given by American reporters that described Germany's type of warfare.

Blitzkrieg

When is the date of Pearl Harbor?

December 7, 1941

Name of bomber planes in Pearl Harbor?

Kate

Name of dive bomber planes in Pearl Harbor?

Val

Name of fighter planes in Pearl Harbor?

Zeroes

What was the only ship not able to be repaired after Pearl Harbor?

USS Arizona

How long did it take the U.S. Pacific Fleet to fully recover and ready to fight after Pearl Harbor?

6 months

What is the pact that Germany broke when they invaded the Soviet Union?

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

In America these allowed people to grow their own food to save supplies for the military and the allies?

Victory gardens

What did people buy in America in order to keep inflation down and helped to pay for the war?

War bonds

What did FDR create that made pro-Ally/ anti-Axis propaganda?

Office of War Information

What did the WAC stand for?

Women Army Corps

What did the WASPS stand for?

Women Air Service Pilots

What was the name of the all-black fighter pilot group that escorted american bombers?

Tuskegee Airmen

What program brought thousands of Mexicans across the U.S. border to work in agriculture due to labor shortages?

The Bracero Program

What minority group volunteered for the military at the highest percentage?

Native Americans

What is the name of the Navajo that sent messages in their native language that the Japanese could never decipher?

Code Talkers

Name of German invasion plan of Great Britain that did not happen?

Operation Sea Lion

Who is the German general in charge of bombing London?

Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring

What type of leadership had a rise after World War 1?

Dictatorship

Who was the dictator of Italy that took control through a military takeover?

Benito Mussolini

Who is the dictator of Germany?

Adolf Hitler

What is the ideology that combines extreme nationalism, militarism, and a government-guided economy?

Fascism

Who is the dictator of the Soviet Union that gained control of the communist party?

Joseph Stalin

Who is apart of the Axis Powers?

Germany, Italy, Japan

What is the conference were France and Britain used the policy of appeasement to maintain peace with Germany? ( This does not work)

Munich Conference

What is it called when you give into someones demands to keep peace?

Appeasement

What Act prohibits Americans from traveling on shops of nations at war?

Neutrality Acts

In 1939, Germany invaded Poland leading who to declare war on Germany?

Great Britain and France

What does Blitzkrieg mean?

lightning war

What was the name of the secretly recruited fighter pilots that fought Japanese pilots?

Flying Tigers

What is the name of the act that allowed the Allies to rent or borrow crucial supplies from the U.S.?

Lend- Lease Act

How does the U.S. respond when Japan invades Indochina in 1941?

Froze assets

Where is the Japanese military attack of the US naval base?

Pearl Harbor

Who came up with the plan for Pearl Harbor?

Admiral Yamamoto

Name of the American and British invasion of Africa?

Operation Torch

Who does FDR name Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe?

General Dwight Eisenhower

Who is the top general for the US and very instrumental in winning the war in Europe?

George Patton

What is the date of D-Day?

June 6, 1944

What is the American invasion of the beaches of Normandy? ( D-Day)

Operation Overload

What are the 5 beaches of Piccadilly Circus?

Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword

What is the name of the plan made by British Field Marshall Montgomery that would be a massive airborne assault of the Netherlands that failed horrible?

Operation Market Garden

What is the counterattack made by Germany after Operation Market Garden?

Battle of the Bulge

What is the turning point of the war in Europe

Battle of the Bulge

Who successfully led the US invasion of Germany?

General Omar Bradley

Who does Hitler marry and later commit suicide with?

Eva Braun

Who is apart of the allies by the end of the war?

Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, and United States

What is the capital city that is split into zones between the Allies after Germany surrenders?

Berlin

What is the hatred of Jews and Arabs?

antisemitism

What was the executive order that FDR signed forcing 110,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps?

Executive Order 9066

What was the name of the case in 1944 where the supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the Japanese- American Internment?

Korematsu vs. US

What is the name of the act that granted $20,000 in reparations for each survivor of Japanese Internment?

Civil Liberties Act

What was the US strategy of taking over island one by one on the way to Japan?

Island hopping

Who is the Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Fleet?

Admiral Chester Nimitz

What is the name of the Battle were the Japanese planned an attack at Midway Island that the US cracked the secret codes so they knew the attack was coming ahead of time?

Battle of Midway

What is the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

Battle of Midway

What is the only US aircraft carrier to sink in the Battle of Midway?

USS Yorktown

What is the name of commander of the army in the pacific that was forced to retreat from the Philippines but turned to take control of the islands?

General Douglas MacArthur

March were Americans and Filipinos are captured by the Japanese and were forced to march 60 miles were 5,000 Americans and 10,000 Filipenses died?

Bataan Death March

What is the only Battle were the US overall American casualties exceeded those of the Japanese?

Battle of Iwo Jima

What is the name of the top secret project to create an atomic bomb?

The Manhattan Project

What is the name of the letter sent to FDR that told him other countries where close to developing atomic bomb?

Einstein-Szilard letter

What are the two cites where atomic bombs are dropped?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Who ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb?

President Harry Truman

What is the name of the conference where the big three met to discuss what to do with Europe after the war was over?

The Yalta Conference

Who are the Big Three?

Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

What was one of the last things that FDR created before his death?

United Nations

Where did the Holocaust begin?

Nuremberg

What is the name of the trials for Nazi leaders that held them responsible for their actions during the Holocaust?

Nuremberg Trials