Flashcards
World War II
Leader of National Socialist party and Dictator of the German Empire
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Heinrich Himmler
Which countries joined the Allied Powers?
Japan
Italy
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Germany
United States of America
Great Britain
Soviet Union
United States of America
How many Americans died in WWII?
390,200
522,600
405,400
404,200
Who was a member of Axis Alliance?
United States of America
Germany
Soviet Union
Japan
Italy
Great Britain
A WWII battle fought only in the air was?
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of Britain
Battle of Pearl Harbor
A Fascist dictator of Italy, called Il Duce
General Franco
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Stalin
A method of warfare whereby an attacking force, spearheaded by a dense concentration of armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry formations with close air support, breaks through the opponent's line of defence by short, fast, powerful attacks and then dislocates the defenders, using speed and surprise to encircle them with the help of air superiority.
Meinkampf
Nazism
Anschluss
Blitzkrieg
Who led the Free French and backed the underground Resistance movement in France?
Charles Drew
Charles de Gaulle
Franklin Delano Roosvelt
Dwight D Eisenhower
What is the name of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945?
Enola Gay
Shooting Star
Chain Lightning
Memphis Belle
Operation Overlord also known as DDay started on:
6 June, 1944
5 May, 1944
9 April, 1944
7 July, 1944
What was the date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
18 March, 1941
11 December, 1942
7 December, 1941
7 January, 1942
Who was a Commander of the Allied forces on the Philippine islands?
Erwin Rommel
Dwight D Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Prime minister of Japan during World War II
Hideki Tojo
Oda Nobunaka
Fumimaro Konoe
Hirohito
Germany started the WWII by invading:
England
France
Poland
Czechoslovakia
WWII started on:
8 October, 1939
1 September, 1939
17 September, 1939
10 September, 1939
The death of President Roosevelt
27 January, 1945
12 April, 1945
7 May, 1945
14 March, 1945
Which Japanese cities were bombarded with atomic bombs during WWII?
Nagoya
Nagasaki
Edo
Osaka
Hiroshima
Largest Japanese battleship deployed during WWII?
Hiryu
Yamato
Nagato
Kongo
German air force is called:
Luftwaffe
Wermacht
Kriegsmarine
Sonderkommando
Japanese suicidal pilots:
Kamikaze
Organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII
Holocaust
Most widely used medium tank by the United States and Western Allies in World War II
M5 Stuart
A27 Cromwell
A15 Crusader
M4 Sherman
Hitler's plan to kill all the Jews in Europe
Final Solution
Fall Weiss
Blitzkrieg
Holocaust
Called The Desert Fox. A Commander of the Afrika Korps in North Africa. Tried to assassinate Hitler.
Karl Dönitz
Erwin Rommel
Friedrich Paulus
Hermann Göring
German general during World War II who commanded the 6th Army. He attained the rank of field marshal two hours before the surrender of German forces in the Battle of Stalingrad.
Werner von Blomberg
Friedrich Paulus
Hans Frank
Erwin Rommel
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