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People Facts Facts Facts Facts MISC
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?