US History Test
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- Date that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
- December 7, 1941
- Nation Bombed by German Luffwaffe
- England/Great Britain
- Date Japan signed its official Surrender
- September 2,1945
- Date the D-day occured at Normandy,France
- June 6, 1944
- what does the term G.I. mean
- Government Issued
- What was the name of the fascist leader of Italy during WW2
- Benito Mussolini
- American in charge of building Atomic Bomb
- J. Robert Obenheimer
- Term Given to political philosophy that nation is more important than the individual
- Fascism
- Program that said US could aide any nation vital to the US
- Lend Lease Act
- First city to be bombed by atomic bomb
- Heroshima
- What title did Hitler give himself
- De Fuhrer
- German Immigrant who suggested to FDR that there could be a powerful new bomb
- Albert Einstein
- What nations invasion by Germany started World War II
- Poland
- Ship Japans signed the formal surrender on?
- U.S.S. Missouri
- What was the day and year that Germany launched its last counter attack at The Battle of the Bulge
- December, 1944
- What image was you to attract women to the war time industry workforce on places such as defense plants
- Rosie the Riveter
- What month and Year was the Atomic bomb tested in New Mexico
- July 1945
- What American General commanded allied forces at D-day
- Dwight Eisenhower
- What Admiral commanded allied forces at the Battle of Midway
- Admiral Chester Nimitz
- What term means Lightening War
- Blitzkrieg
- What president authorized Atomic bomb
- Harry S. Truman
- German General who was defeated in North Africa and at Normandy
- Irwim Rommel
- What meeting did FDR, Churchill, and Stalin all meet up at to talk about the dividing of germany into 4 zones
- YALTA conference
- The principles agreed upon by FDR and Churchill which later became the basis for the UN
- Atlantic Charter
- What month and year did Germany surrender
- May 1945
- What was the code name for the developement of the atomic bomb
- Manhatten Project
- What date is considered the beginning of WW2
- September 1, 1939
- What incident did 10,000 POW american and filipino die while being taken to japenese war camps
- Baaton Death March
- What two beaches did Americans land on D-day
- Utah and Omaha
- What nation did Germany invade despite non-aggression pact
- Soviet Union
- What American General led allied forces on an attack on Sicily in Italy
- General George Patton
- Leader of the Soviet Union during WW2
- Joseph Stalin
- British Prime Minister during WW2
- Winston Churchill
- Nation which was sacrificed at the Munich Conference to have peace
- Czechoslavakia
- Term given to the night when nazi and others attacked jewish homes and business and destroyed them and many jews taken to prison camps
- Krystal Nacht or chrystal Night or Night of Broken Glass
- What nation did Germany cut through to attack France on two occasions
- Belgium
- government savings notes bought to finance the war
- War Bonds
- Campain to end discrimination on the homefront and win the war for allies and claim victory
- Double V
- who led daring air Raids in the Daylight on Tokyo
- Jimmy Doolittle
- First battle in history where all fighting was done in air craft
- Battle of Coral Sea
- About how many Jews died in the holocaust
- 6 million
- Battle near the Philipines that ended Japan as a Naval power
- Battle of Layte gulf
- How did the US get most of the money for the war
- War Bonds
- Where did the tide of the war against Japan turn for the good of the Allied forces
- The Battle of Midway
- Where did Douglas Mcaurther say "I shall return"
- Philipines
- What were laws that took jews citizenship away from Germany said they couldnt marry non jews said they couldnt operate businesses on non jews
- Nuhremberg Laws
- Name of the Stradegy allies used in the Pacific
- Island Hopping
- Part of world where Battles Coral Sea Midway etc were fought
- Pacific Ocean
- Caused the US to enter WW2
- Pearl Harbor
- What took place on D-day?
- The attack on Normandy France
- How did allies transmit secret messages in pacific and elsewhere during WW2
- Through Navajo Indian speaking in Navajo that Japenese couldnt break the code also known as Code Talkers or Wind Talkers
- Term Given to the end of war in Europe
- V-E Day
- Finally brought an end to WW2
- The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
- what was the very long battle that was fought to prevent German submarines from isolating Britain
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Bomb loaded Japenese Suicide planes that were sent to crash into US fleet and other important equipment
- Kamikazis
- Where were Nazis accused and executed for war crimes
- Nuremberg
- Japan Prime Minister that ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor
- Hideki Tojo
- Code name for allied invasion of Normandy Coast of France
- Operation Overlord
- What Program did Government use to gurantee profit to wartime industries
- Cost-Plus program
- Group of Americans who were discriminated against during WW2 and placed in internment camps
- Japenese Americans
- Government Agency to boost Moral and Patriotism on the Homefront
- Office of War Information
- Government Agency led by James Burns centralized other agency
- Office of War Mobilization
- Helped war effort by making Liberty Ships
- Henry J. Kaiser
- What was the Month and Year that allied Naval Defense succeed at Guadel Canal
- August 1942
- British Prime Minister who agreed to appeasement at Munich
- Neville Chamberlain
- What meeting did Nazis agree to Final Solution of the Genocide of Jews
- Wannsee Conference
- What location did British Civilians evacuate British Army to avoid being Captured by Germany
- Dunkirk
- Top American General and Army Chief of Staff
- General George Marshall
- Labor leader threatened to head a march on Washington in favor to stop racial discrimination on war plants
- A. Philip Randolph
- What nation invaded ethiopia
- Italy
- What nation was annexed by Germany in March 1938
- Austria
- What were the axis powers and be able to locate on map
- Germany Italy and East Prussia
- What were the Allied Powers and be able to locate on map
- Great Britain and Soviet Union and United States
- What were the nations under Axis Control and be able to locate on map
- France Austria Bulgaria Morocco Algeria tunisia Luxemberg Netherlands Belgium Denmark Yugoslavia Albania Greece Bulgaria Romania Hungary Czechoslavakia Finland Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Norway Bessarabia and part of Soviet Union
- What were the Neutral Nations and be able to locate on map
- Spaniah Morocco Spain Portugual Ireland Switzerland Sweden Turkey
- What were the name of the "thugs" used by Mussolini to come to power
- Blackshirts
- October 1935 what happend
- Mussolini invades ethiopia and they finally gained control in March 1936
- What did the NAZI stand for
- National socialist German Workers Party
- what was Reichstag
- The German Parliament
- on March 9, 1936 what happened
- germans moved their troops on the German Rhineland which invaded the Treaty of versailles
- When did US general George S. Patton attack Sicily
- July 1943
- Carpet Bombing
- The Dropping of Bombs of a large area
- What was the month and Year of the Battle of Midway
- June 4, 1942
- When was the Battle of the Coral Sea
- May 1942
- Battle of the Guadal Canal Date
- February 1943
- Battle oF Iwo Jima
- February 1945
- Battle Of Okinawa
- April to June 1945
- Einsatzgruppen
- Mobile Killing units