Flashcards
World War II
Leader of National Socialist party and Dictator of the German Empire
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Joseph Stalin
Which countries joined the Allied Powers?
Italy
Great Britain
Germany
United States of America
Soviet Union
Japan
Great Britain
United States of America
Soviet Union
How many Americans died in WWII?
404,200
405,400
390,200
522,600
Who was a member of Axis Alliance?
Italy
United States of America
Germany
Japan
Soviet Union
Great Britain
A WWII battle fought only in the air was?
Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of Britain
Battle of Midway
Battle of Pearl Harbor
A Fascist dictator of Italy, called Il Duce
Benito Mussolini
General Franco
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Goebbels
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.
Blitzkrieg
Meinkampf
Anschluss
Nazism
Who led the Free French and backed the underground Resistance movement in France?
Franklin Delano Roosvelt
Charles Drew
Charles de Gaulle
Dwight D Eisenhower
What is the name of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945?
Shooting Star
Enola Gay
Memphis Belle
Chain Lightning
Operation Overlord also known as DDay started on:
7 July, 1944
9 April, 1944
6 June, 1944
5 May, 1944
What was the date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
7 January, 1942
18 March, 1941
11 December, 1942
7 December, 1941
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
Fumimaro Konoe
Hideki Tojo
Hirohito
Oda Nobunaka
Germany started the WWII by invading:
France
England
Poland
Czechoslovakia
WWII started on:
10 September, 1939
17 September, 1939
1 September, 1939
8 October, 1939
The death of President Roosevelt
7 May, 1945
14 March, 1945
12 April, 1945
27 January, 1945
Which Japanese cities were bombarded with atomic bombs during WWII?
Edo
Nagasaki
Osaka
Hiroshima
Nagoya
Largest Japanese battleship deployed during WWII?
Nagato
Kongo
Hiryu
Yamato
German air force is called:
Wermacht
Luftwaffe
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
M4 Sherman
A27 Cromwell
A15 Crusader
M5 Stuart
Hitler's plan to kill all the Jews in Europe
Fall Weiss
Final Solution
Holocaust
Blitzkrieg
Called The Desert Fox. A Commander of the Afrika Korps in North Africa. Tried to assassinate Hitler.
Friedrich Paulus
Erwin Rommel
Karl Dönitz
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.
Friedrich Paulus
Hans Frank
Werner von Blomberg
Erwin Rommel
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