Unit 12.3-12.4 Quiz

When Germany invaded ___, Britain and France declared war, beginning WWII.

• Austria

• Czechoslovakia

• Poland

• USSR

Hitler’s battle strategy of using planes to bomb, then tanks to overrun an area.  (means ‘lightning war’ in German)

• Maginot

• Blitzkrieg

• Dunkirk

• Rommel

Name of the nightly bombing raids by the Nazis on British cities.

• The Blitz    

• Leningrad 

• Maginot Line

• Vichy

Operation Barbarossa was Hitler’s plan to invade ___.

• USSR

• England

• France

• USA

Name of the Nazi program of genocide which killed six million Jews, and millions others viewed as undesirable by the Nazis.

• Vichy

• Operation Barbarossa

• Holocaust

• Miracle at Dunkirk

During WWII, Americans of ___ descent were forced to live in internment camps to prevent ‘spying.’

• Italian

• German

• Spanish

• Japanese

American military base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese which caused America to enter the war on the side of the Allies.

• Coral Sea

• Pearl Harbor

• Guadalcanal

• Midway

Allied strategy in the Pacific which consisted of taking only strategically important islands, rather than trying to take tiny little island in the Pacific.

• neutrality

• Midway

• island-hopping

• samurai

President of the US who took over upon FDR’s death and was charged with engineering Japan’s defeat.

• Hoover

• Truman

• Ford

• Eisenhower

Hiroshima and ________ are the two Japanese cities on which Allied troops dropped atomic bombs.

• Midway

• Guadalcanal

• Tokyo

• Nagasaki