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Jeopardy Vocabulary Battles People Groups Events Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
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$100 Question Side that consisted of the U.S., Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, etc.
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$100 Answer Allies
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$200 Question Side that consisted of Germany, Italy, And Japan.
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$200 Answer Axis Powers
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$300 Question Means Lightning Warfare
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$300 Answer Blitzkreig
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$400 Question A shift in a country’s economy from making peacetime to wartime goods.
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$400 Answer Mobilization
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$500 Question The executive order that caused the evacuation of Japanese Americans into internment camps
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$500 Answer Executive Order 9066
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$100 Question What event brought the U.S. Into WWII?
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$100 Answer Bombing of Pearl Harbor Dec. 7 th 1941
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$200 Question On June 6 th 1944, the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France. What was this known as?
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$200 Answer D-Day Bonus: What is the official military name? Operation Overlord
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$300 Question What Naval battle is considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific Theater
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$300 Answer The Battle of Midway
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$400 Question What was the largest amphibious Landing in military history?
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$400 Answer Invasion of Normandy, France/D-Day
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$500 Question Where did the first military combat by the U.S. take place in the European Theater of war?
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$500 Answer North Africa
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$100 Question Fascist dictator of Germany
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$100 Answer Adolf Hitler
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$200 Question U.S. president that authorized the use of The atomic bomb.
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$200 Answer Harry Truman
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$300 Question British Prime Minister during WWII
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$300 Answer Winston Churchill
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$400 Question Dictator of Italy during WWII
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$400 Answer Benito Mussolini
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$500 Question Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII
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$500 Answer Joseph Stalin
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$100 Question What was the name of the Army Air Corps’ first black combat unit
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$100 Answer Tuskegee Airmen
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$200 Question During the war women served in The army as part of what group?
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$200 Answer Women’s Army Corps
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$300 Question What was the name of the campaign to win the war and end racism and segregation
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$300 Answer The Double V Campaign
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$400 Question What government agency was responsible For converting industries to military Production?
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$400 Answer War Production Board (WPB)
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$500 Question What problem was targeted by the Office of Price Administration?
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$500 Answer Inflation
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$100 Question What event prompted Japan to surrender To the Allies on August 14, 1945?
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$100 Answer The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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$200 Question What was the systematic murder of over 11 million Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII known as
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$200 Answer Holocaust Genocide –systematic killing of any group
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$300 Question What event was the direct cause of WWII
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$300 Answer The invasion of Poland by Germany
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$400 Question What allowed the U.S. to give support to Great Britain before our entry into the war?
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$400 Answer Lend-Lease Act
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$500 Question What was the meeting in 1938 that gave The Sudetenland (in Czechoslovakia) to Hitler
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$500 Answer Munich Conference Bonus: What type of policy were the British and French practicing? Appeasement
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Final Jeopardy Put the following events in chronological order: A) D-Day B) Bombing of Pearl Harbor C) Munich Pact, D) Invasion of Poland
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Final Jeopardy Answer Munich Pact -1938 Invasion of Poland – 1939 Pearl Harbor – 1941 D-Day - 1944
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