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Who was the Allied commander in
Europe and was later elected
President?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who said on Dec. 7, 1941, “I fear all we
have done is to awaken a sleeping
giant and fill him with terrible resolve”?
Yamamoto
Who fought in Italy and won the
Distinguished Service Cross, Bronze
Star, and Purple Heart for his bravery,
but he didn’t win the Congressional
Medal of Honor until after WWII?
Vernon Baker
Who was the admiral and commander
of the U.S. Navy and Allied land and
sea forces in the Pacific?
Chester Nimitz
Who was the German Field Marshal
who was nicknamed “the Desert Fox”
due to his victories in North Africa?
Erwin Rommel
Who was the Supreme
Commander of U.S. troops in the
Pacific Theater?
Douglas MacArthur
Who was the military governor of
Japan after the war?
Douglas MacArthur
Who was the admiral for Japan that
oversaw the attack on Pearl
Harbor?
Yamamoto
Who was the Army Chief of Staff
who ran the war from Washington,
D.C.?
George Marshall
Who was the most decorated WWII
soldier?
Audie Murphy
What happened when the Great
Migration continued during the war?
African Americans moved
to the North and West for
jobs.
In what year, did we test our first
atomic bomb?
1945
Name 3 ways people could
volunteer to help the war effort.
Make bandages and
socks, give blood, collect
scrap metal, donate books,
and join the Red Cross
What role did we take in WWII before
we actually entered the war after Pearl
Harbor?
We practiced isolationism
and provided Britain with
weapons and supplies.
What did the Nuremberg Laws do
in Germany before the Holocaust?
Jewish Germans lost their
citizenship.
What document influenced our
entry into the war?
Atlantic Charter
How did WWII affect immigration?
Mexicans came to the
Southwest to pick fruits
and vegetables.
What was the first country that
Hitler “unified” with Germany?
Austria
What made Britain and France
realize that appeasement with
Hitler had failed?
invading Poland
Why were U.S. shocked when they
were conquering Germany?
They saw starving Jews in
the concentration camps.
Why did the Japanese attack
Midway?
to get an airbase to bomb Hawaii
Why were the Germans shocked
by the D-Day invasion?
They thought it would
happen at Calais and not
Normandy.
Why was the Battle of Midway so
important?
We sank 4 Japanese aircraft
carriers.
What did Stalin agree to do after
the war in Europe?
Divide Europe into 4 sections
and help us defeat Japan
What happen in the 1930s when
economies around the world were weak
that helped lead to WWII?
Dictatorships grew around
the world.
What happened the Japanese
emperor after the war?
He stayed on the throne.
Which general liberated Paris after
leading soldiers at D-Day and later
met up the Soviet army?
Omar Bradley
How did we kill some of our
soldiers in the Bataan Death
March?
We bombed Japanese
ship not knowing our
soldiers were on the ships.
What country did Japan invade to
get natural resources?
Manchuria
What battleship took the most
fatalities at Pearl Harbor?
USS Arizona