Transcript World War II Review!

World War II Review!
This battle was the largest battle in Europe and the
German’s last great effort to defeat the allies
A) Battle of Britain
B) Battle of
Stalingrad
C) Battle of Iwo Jima
D) D-Day landing
E) Battle of the Bulge
During which event did thousands of American
and Filipino POW’s die from hunger and thirst
A) Battle of Britain
B) Bataan Death
March
C) Executive order
9066
D) Battle of Midway
This invasion marked the official
beginning of World War II
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Invasion of Poland
Trinity test
Munich Conference
Operation Overlord
Atlantic Charter
Who was the “fool” at the Munich
Conference?
A) Adolph Hitler
B) FDR
C) Neville
Chamberlin
D) Winston
Churchill
E) Benito
Mussolini
This directly made the internment
camps possible:
A)
B)
C)
D)
Trinity Test
Pearl Harbor
Order 9066
Hitler
This is the codename for the total
invasion of Europe…
A) Trinity Test
B) Operation
Overlord
C) Navajo
Codebreakers
D) Iwo Jima
“people of the Philippines, I have
returned”
A) George Patton
B) Albert Einstein
C) Winston Churchill
D) Dwight D.
Eisenhower
E) Douglas MacArthur
Scientist who headed the Manhattan
Project…later came to regret it!
A) George Patton
B) President
Truman
C) Albert Einstein
D) Robert
Oppenheimer
“If I had only known, I would have
become a watchmaker”
A)
B)
C)
D)
Albert Einstein
Charles Oppenheimer
George Patton
President Harry
Truman
“My decision at this time and place was based upon the best
information available. If any blame or fault attaches to the
attempt, it is mine alone”
A) George Patton
B) Albert Einstein
C) Winston Churchill
D) Dwight D.
Eisenhower
E) Douglas
MacArthur
Deciphering Japanese codes, the US won this
turning point battle in the Pacific
A) Battle of
Midway
B) Iwo Jima
C) Hiroshima
D) Nagasaki
the US was still “neutral” when Churchill and
FDR planned the postwar world at his event
A) Munich
Conference
B) Atlantic Charter
C) Potsdam
Conference
This man made the decision to drop
the atomic bombs on Japan
A) George Patton
B) Albert Einstein
C) Winston
Churchill
D) Dwight D.
Eisenhower
E) None of the
above
The London Blitz
A) Caused Britain to
surrender
B) Did little to
damage London
C) Was Hitler’s
attempt to
weaken the
British will to
fight.
D) Caused the U.S.
to enter the war
Which of the following was not one of
the allies
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
France
United States
United Kingdom
Italy
Russia
Which of the following were Axis
powers
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Canada
Russia
Japan
Mexico
All are Axis powers
This tough general was feared by Hitler
and was an Army General in Europe.
A) George Patton
B) Albert Einstein
C) Winston Churchill
D) Dwight D.
Eisenhower
E) Douglas MacArthur
At this meeting a dying FDR, Churchill
and Stalin met to carve up Germany
A) Yalta
Conference
B) Potsdam
Conference
C) Munich
Conference
D) Treaty of
Versailles
Who is this man?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Winston Churchill
FDR
A. Hitler
Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
This German style of “lightning war” or ________ used
divebombers and tanks followed by soldiers.
A)
B)
C)
D)
Kamikaze
Fierce
Aryan
Blitzkrieg
Which of the following was the first
test of a nuclear bomb?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Hiroshima
Trinity
Nagasaki
Pearl Harbor
Berlin
Which of the following occurred first?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Midway
Trinity Test
Pearl Harbor Attack
Munich Conference