What was the German term for the "lightning war
Blitzkrieg
Who said "your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars
Roosevelt
Where was the Atlantic Charter drawn
Placenta Bay, Newfoundland American cruiser Augusta and British battleship Prince of Whales
Who said I shall Return and who was it to
Macarthur, People of the Philippines
Besides Okinawa where did the Us want a foothold to Japan
Iwo Jima
What was the French Maginot Line and what was its German counterpart
a military line separating territory, Siegfried
Who agreed to let Hitler take western Poland and what was the name of the agreement
Russia (Stalin), Nazi Soviet Nonaggression Act
Where did the Germans aim their attack in the operation code named Barbarossa
Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad
When did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
What were three reasons that the US did not want to enter the war for so long
1) We were traditionally isolationist
2) We were still in debt from WW1
3) We were to busy looking at domestic problems due to Great Depression
Who were the Nisei, and what happened to them during WW1
They were 2nd generation Japanese Americans who were put in detention camps
Who symbolized the American women of industry during WW2
Rosie the Riveter
What was the blue and the gold star banner
Blue means a son gone to war and gold means a fallen son who will not be coming home
Where did operation overlord start
Normandy Coast of France
Who was the Supreme Allied Commander in 1944
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When was D-Day
June 6, 1944
Who was the "Desert Fox" what forces did he command
Erwin Rommel, German Axis forces in Africa at Tripoli
What was a cricket, who used it, and when
A small toy noisemaker, Maxwell Taylor, D-Day
Where did the "bulge occur in the battle of the bulge
50 miles into Allied lines at Bastogne
Who massacred millions from racial and ethnic groups, and what was the massacre called
Hitler, Holocaust
When was the bomb dropped on Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
When was the bomb dropped on Nagaskai
August 9, 1945
What was the turning point of the Japanese offensive
Battle of Midway
Who took over the presidenct upon FDR's death
Harry Truman
What was the name of the plane that dropped the first bomb
Enola Gray (B-29)
What was the German word for their armed forces
Wehrmacht
What was the German word for their air forces
Luftwaffe
Where was the "great arsenal of democracy
America
What is Anschluss
Union between Germany and Austria
In Norway whose name is synonymous with traitor
Quisling
What committees did the pacifist and isolationists organize
America First Committees
When did the Yalta meeting of the Big Three take place
February 1943
Who were the Big Three
Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill
What issue did the Russian leader at Yalta agree to but not practice
Democratic elections and government to every place he conquered
Who were Kamikazes
Organized squadrons of Japanese suicide bombers aimed at American battleships
When did Hitler write a book
When he was in Prison
What is it called
Mein Kampf
Who headed the U.S. Army and who headed the U.S. Navy on the Pacific front
Army- MacArthur, Navy- Nimitz
What occurred on a national scale in 1943 to help improve the governments tax flow
payroll deductions
Where did the "death march" occur in WW1
Bataan Peninsula
Who were the two new faces at Potsdam
Truman, Attlee
What was the one item upon which they agreed
The unconditional surrender of Japan
Where did Operation Torch take place
North Africa
Who commanded the mission
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When did the War Production Board begin
January 1942
What was the function of the War Production Board
To halt all domestic building to conserve the materials for the war effort
What was the most significant Pacific conquest in summer of 1944, what effect did it have on future fight
Taking of Mariana, Gave us a place where we could easily bomb Japan and Philippines
What act set aside 7 billion dollars to supply embattled nations
Lend-Lease Act
Who gave a speech about freedoms and what were they
Roosevelt/ Speech, worship, fear, want