WWII REVIEW GAME

1) $5

• What 3 countries formed the Axis powers?

• Germany, Italy, Japan.

1)

2) $5

• Name the 3 leaders of the Axis powers.

2)

• Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo

3) $5

• What policy, in an attempt to avoid war, did the League of Nations adopt towards Hitler when he invaded the Rhineland, Austria, the Sudetenland, and Czechoslovakia?

3)

• Appeasement.

4) $5

• The invasion of this country by Hitler in September of 1939 resulted in Britain and France declaring war on Germany.

4

• Poland

5) $5

• What American policy allowed Britain, France and their allies to obtain U.S. weapons without having to pay cash up front?

5)

• The Lend-Lease Act.

Bonus Question: Make a wager

What pact did Germany make with the Soviet Union in 1939 that

allowed for the take over of Poland?

Bonus Round Answer

• The Nonaggression Pact.

6) $5

• Name the German air attack on Britain in the summer of 1940.

6

• The Battle of Britain.

7) $5

• What invention allowed the British to turn away Hitler’s Luftwaffe (Airforce) in the Battle of Britain?

7)

• Radar

8) $5

• What stance did the United States originally take towards the war until early December 1941?

8)

• Neutral

9) $5

• Why did Japan attack the United States at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?

9)

• The United States cut oil supplies to Japan in response to their aggressive takeover of Southeast Asia.

10) $5

• Where did Japan attack on December 8, 1941?

10)

• The Philippines.

Bonus Question: Make a wager

Who was the U.S. General in charge of the American military

forces in the Pacific during WWII?

Bonus Round Answer

• General Douglas MacArthur.

11) $5

• Define Genocide.

11)

• The extermination of a specific group of people.

12) $5

• Approximately how many European Jews died in Nazi concentration camps?

12)

• 6 Million

13) $5

• What was the significance of the battle of the Bulge?

13)

• The Battle of the Bulge marked the last German offensive (final desperate effort of Hitler to defeat the U.S. in Europe).

14) $5

• D-Day was the code name for the Allied invasion of _________.

14)

• France

15) $5

• What was the purpose of the Manhattan project?

15)

• Build the atomic bomb.

Bonus Question: Make a wager

Who was the Supreme Commander of U.S. forces in

Europe and the designer of the D-Day invasion?

Bonus Round Answer

• General Dwight D. Eisenhower

16) $5

• Known as V-E Day, May 8, 1945, was the day when __________.

16)

• Germany surrendered

17) $5

• Who made the final decision to drop the atomic bombs?

17)

• President Harry Truman

18) $5

• What battle in the Pacific Ocean is considered to be the turning point in the war for the U.S. against Japan?

18)

• Battle of Midway

19) $5

• What was the name of the discriminatory laws enacted against the Jews by the Nazi’s

19)

• Nuremberg Laws

20) $5

• Put the following WWII events in chronological order:

Liberation of France, V-E Day, Battle of Stalingrad, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge

20)

• Battle of Stalingrad, D-Day, Liberation of France, Battle of the Bulge, V-E Day

Final Bonus Question: Make a wager

The successful invasion of D-Day required both skill and luck for the

Allied forces. List 3 lucky things that happened to help to make the

invasion a success.

Bonus Question Answer

1. Weather2. General Rommell left Normandy and went

home to Germany to celebrate his wife’s B-day.

3. Hitler was asleep when the invasion started and no one wake him up.

4. Operation Body Guard fooled the Germans into thinking the Allies were attacking some where else.