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Who was the Allied commander in Europe and was later elected

President?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Who said on Dec. 7, 1941, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping

giant and fill him with terrible resolve”?

Yamamoto

Who fought in Italy and won the Distinguished Service Cross, Bronze

Star, and Purple Heart for his bravery, but he didn’t win the Congressional Medal of Honor until after WWII?

Vernon Baker

Chester Nimitz

Who was the admiral and commander of the U.S. Navy and Allied land and

sea forces in the Pacific?

Who was the German Field Marshal who was nicknamed “the Desert Fox” due to his victories in North Africa?

Erwin Rommel

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

Pacific Theater?

Douglas MacArthur

Who was the military governor of Japan after the war?

Douglas MacArthur

Who was the admiral for Japan that oversaw the attack on Pearl

Harbor?

Yamamoto

Who was the Army Chief of Staff who ran the war from Washington,

D.C.?

George Marshall

Audie Murphy

Who was the most decorated WWII soldier?

African Americans moved to the North and West for

jobs.

What happened when the Great Migration continued during the war?

1945

In what year, did we test our first atomic bomb?

Make bandages and socks, give blood, collect

scrap metal, donate books, and join the Red Cross

Name 3 ways people could volunteer to help the war effort.

We practiced isolationism and provided Britain with weapons and supplies.

What role did we take in WWII before we actually entered the war after Pearl

Harbor?

Jewish Germans lost their citizenship.

What did the Nuremberg Laws do in Germany before the Holocaust?

Atlantic Charter

What document influenced our entry into the war?

Mexicans came to the Southwest to pick fruits

and vegetables.

How did WWII affect immigration?

Austria

What was the first country that Hitler “unified” with Germany?

invading Poland

What made Britain and France realize that appeasement with

Hitler had failed?

They saw starving Jews in the concentration camps.

Why were U.S. shocked when they were conquering Germany?

to get an airbase to bomb Hawaii

Why did the Japanese attack Midway?

They thought it would happen at Calais and not

Normandy.

Why were the Germans shocked by the D-Day invasion?

We sank 4 Japanese aircraft carriers.

Why was the Battle of Midway so important?

Divide Europe into 4 sections and help us defeat Japan

What did Stalin agree to do after the war in Europe?

Dictatorships grew around the world.

What happen in the 1930s when economies around the world were weak

that helped lead to WWII?

He stayed on the throne.

What happened the Japanese emperor after the war?

Omar Bradley

Which general liberated Paris after leading soldiers at D-Day and later

met up the Soviet army?

We bombed Japanese ship not knowing our

soldiers were on the ships.

How did we kill some of our soldiers in the Bataan Death

March?

Manchuria

What country did Japan invade to get natural resources?

USS Arizona

What battleship took the most fatalities at Pearl Harbor?

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