Questions
1. What event led to the United States' joining the war with the Allies? In what year did this event occur and what happened?
2. What was the significance of the Battle of Midway?
3. Hitler's Lightning War began in which country?
4. What was Operation Torch?
5. Explain Kristallnacht?
6. What was Hitler's "final solution"?
7. What was the Battle of Britain? What was the outcome?
8. What was the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement?
9. What is "“Blitzkrieg”?
10. What were the Nuremberg Laws?
11. What happened at the battle of Stalingrad? Why was it important?
12. What was the Gestapo?
13. What US President launched the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
14. What happened at the Nuremberg Trials?
15. What US General led the Allies on D-Day?
16. Describe Europe after WWII ended?
17. When and what was V-E Day?
18. Who was Douglas MacArthur
19. What does demilitarization mean?
20. What kind of government was implemented in Japan after their surrender?
1. What event led to the United States' joining the war with the Allies? In what year did this event occur and what happened?
2. What was the significance of the Battle of Midway?
3. Hitler's Lightning War began in which country?
4. What was Operation Torch?
5. Explain Kristallnacht?
6. What was Hitler's "final solution"?
7. What was the Battle of Britain? What was the outcome?
8. What was the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement?
9. What is "“Blitzkrieg”?
10. What were the Nuremberg Laws?
11. What happened at the battle of Stalingrad? Why was it important?
12. What was the Gestapo?
13. What US President launched the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
14. What happened at the Nuremberg Trials?
15. What US General led the Allies on D-Day?
16. Describe Europe after WWII ended?
17. When and what was V-E Day?
18. Who was Douglas MacArthur
19. What does demilitarization mean?
20. What kind of government was implemented in Japan after their surrender?
Answers
1. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor led to the US joining the war. It took place on Dec. 7th, 1941. Japan bombed US naval base in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor, with the intentions of destroying the US Pacific Fleet. Japan saw the fleet as a potential threat.
2. The Battle of Midway was the United States' first offensive attack since the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The US navy ambushed Japanese troops who were attempting to invade an island called Midway that was an important US stronghold in the Pacific. The US was able to do so through decoding technologies.
3. Poland
4. The Allied plan to attack Germany through North Africa, taking areas including Morocco and Algeria. It was led by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
5. It was when a Jew 17 year old boy from Germany was visiting Paris, and received a postcard that said his father was being deported to his native Poland. To avenge his father he shot an employee of the German Embassy in France and when Nazi leaders heard the news, they launched a violent attack on the Jewish.
6. A program of genocide, the mass killing of an entire people.
7. Hitler's bombing of London. He eventually surrendered the attacks because London refused to surrender. He instead turned his attention to the Soviet Union.
8. The nonaggression pact signed between Hitler and Stalin
9. Hitler's bombing method and attacking tactic where planes would fly over cities and drop bombs.
10. Laws passed by the Nazi Party and Hitler that discriminated against Jews.
11. Germany attempted the attack the Russian city of Stalingrad. However because of the harsh Russian Winter and relentlessness of the Soviet Troops, they surrendered. It was significant because afterwards Germany was no longer on the offensive.
12. The secret German police
13. Truman
14. Members of the Nazi party were tried for their war crimes
15. General Dwight D. Eisenhower
16. There was a lot of hunger, destruction, and poverty throughout the continent.
17. V-E Day was the official day of Allied victory in Europe, 1945
18. The commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific.
19. The process of taking away a country's armed forces.
20. A parliamentary democracy
1. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor led to the US joining the war. It took place on Dec. 7th, 1941. Japan bombed US naval base in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor, with the intentions of destroying the US Pacific Fleet. Japan saw the fleet as a potential threat.
2. The Battle of Midway was the United States' first offensive attack since the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The US navy ambushed Japanese troops who were attempting to invade an island called Midway that was an important US stronghold in the Pacific. The US was able to do so through decoding technologies.
3. Poland
4. The Allied plan to attack Germany through North Africa, taking areas including Morocco and Algeria. It was led by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
5. It was when a Jew 17 year old boy from Germany was visiting Paris, and received a postcard that said his father was being deported to his native Poland. To avenge his father he shot an employee of the German Embassy in France and when Nazi leaders heard the news, they launched a violent attack on the Jewish.
6. A program of genocide, the mass killing of an entire people.
7. Hitler's bombing of London. He eventually surrendered the attacks because London refused to surrender. He instead turned his attention to the Soviet Union.
8. The nonaggression pact signed between Hitler and Stalin
9. Hitler's bombing method and attacking tactic where planes would fly over cities and drop bombs.
10. Laws passed by the Nazi Party and Hitler that discriminated against Jews.
11. Germany attempted the attack the Russian city of Stalingrad. However because of the harsh Russian Winter and relentlessness of the Soviet Troops, they surrendered. It was significant because afterwards Germany was no longer on the offensive.
12. The secret German police
13. Truman
14. Members of the Nazi party were tried for their war crimes
15. General Dwight D. Eisenhower
16. There was a lot of hunger, destruction, and poverty throughout the continent.
17. V-E Day was the official day of Allied victory in Europe, 1945
18. The commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific.
19. The process of taking away a country's armed forces.
20. A parliamentary democracy