Jeopardy: World War II pt. 2

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Central Figures

Location, Location, Location

Potpourri Vocab. Battles End of the War

Central Figures-100- He said: “Now this is not the end, it is not

even the beginning of the end, but is perhaps the end of the beginning.”

Sir Winston Churchill

Central Figures-200 As a group, they made up the 99th Pursuit

Squadron.

Tuskegee Airmen

Central Figures-300 She was the symbol of working women

during WW II

Rosie the Riveter

Answer 1-400 He was the General in command of the

Dummy D-Day Invasion

Gen. George S. Patton

Daily Double!!!

Central Figures-500 He Said: “If the Allies get ashore, the war is

over.”

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

Location-100 The name given to the new industrial region

that spanned from Southern California to South Carolina

Sun Belt

Location-200 July 10, 1943 a massive movement of Allied

troops to this Mediterranean Sea Island

Sicily

Location-300 Hitler believed that the location of the Allied

invasion of France would come at this seaport city

Calais

Location-400 Of the 5 beach heads stormed on D-Day

these were the two assigned to the Americans

Omaha and Utah

Location-500 During the Battle of the Bulge the 101st

Airborne were trapped at this Belgium location

Bastogne

Potpourri-100 The Double V Campaign carried out by the

Pittsburgh Courier was a V for Victory in Europe and a V for victory over this

Racial Prejudice in America

Potpourri-200 The Supreme Commander of Allied Forces

in Europe

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Potpourri-300 The program established to bring Mexican

farmworkers to the United States during WW II

Bracero

Potpourri-400 The military operation for the Allies to break

off of the beaches at Normandy

Operation Cobra

Potpourri-500 The location where the Japanese began to

use Kamikaze attacks

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Vocabulary-100 Organized to collect spare rubber, tin,

aluminum and steel

Scrap Drives

Vocabulary-200 Many of these were “grown” at home for

extra food

Victory Gardens

Vocabulary-300 Greek word for destruction by fire

Holocaust

Answer 4-400 A boat with tank tracks that was designed to cross

the coral reefs in the Pacific and get our troops ashore

Amphtrac or Aligator

Daily Double!!!

Vocabulary-500 Location where the U.S. Marines raised the

flag that is today depicted as a memorial in Washington D.C.

Mt. Suribachi

Battles-100 27 Congressional Medals of Honor were

awarded for this Pacific battle

Iwo Jima

Battles -200

The Battle that was Hitler’s last ditch effort to move the Allies out of Germany

Battle of the Bulge

Battles -300 This battle is considered the turning point for

Germany in WWII

Stalingrad

Battles -400 The worlds largest naval battle in history

Leyte Gulf

Battles -500 The bloodiest battle in the Pacific theater

Okinawa

End of the War-100 Declaration issued by President Truman to

the Japanese

Potsdam Declaration

End of the War-200 Two cities that suffered atomic bomb blasts

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

End of the War-300 Name of the group established by President

Truman to give him options to win the war with Japan

Interim Committee

End of the War-400 Scientist that accomplished the chain

reaction necessary to detonate the atomic bomb

Enrico Fermi

End of the War-500 Date the Japanese officially surrendered

aboard the USS Missouri

September 2, 1945