Jeopardy! Standard VII C: The student will understand WWII.
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JEOPARDY! Battles in the Pacific Battles in Europe Groups and Individuals The Home Front Germany Post-War
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Answer On what Pacific Ocean island did Japan try to destroy the Pacific Fleet for a second time: American forces lead a successful surprise attack because they had broken the Japanese military code in 1942? Battle of Midway
Answer This was the first US offensive in the Pacific Guadalcanal
Answer This is the name given to the event that occurred in the Philippines when the American and Filipino soldiers were forced to surrender to the Japanese and march through the jungle to their prison camp. Bataan Death March
Answer At this battle, the Americans stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. Battle of the Coral Sea
Answer The number of casualties on these two Japanese islands were part of the reason that convinced President Truman to drop the atomic bombs on Japan Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Answer This was the title of the year long operation that resulted in the D-Day invasion at Normandy Operation Overlord
Answer This was the air battle between the Luftwaffe and the RAF that caused Hitler to begin a two front war. Battle of Britain
Answer The German invasion of the Soviet Union. Operation Barbarossa
Answer The Battle of the Atlantic turned in the Allies’ favor in 1943 with the development of what? Sonar
Answer This was Hitler’s last ditch attempt to force the Allies out of Germany. Battle of the Bulge
Answer List the 5 nations that were the major Allied Powers during WWII. United States England France Soviet Union (Russia) China
Answer List the 3 Axis Powers of WWII. Italy Germany Japan
Answer These men were vital to the Allied war strategy because they were responsible for sending and receiving coded Allied messages; they were never broken by the Japanese Navajo Code Talkers
Answer This race riot occurred in California between American sailors and Mexican men Zoot-Suit Riots
Answer This court case occurred in 1944, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. government was justified in forcing Japanese onto internment camps because during times of war it is constitutional to limit people’s civil liberties. Korematsu vs. United States Daily Double!!!
Answer This was the main way the United States financed the war. War Bonds
Answer Before the U.S. entered WWII, President Roosevelt tried to stay out of the war and help the Allies by shipping weapons and other supplies to Britain. The Allies would pay for the supplies “later”. What act allowed President Roosevelt to do this? The Lend-Lease Act Daily Double!!!
Answer The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was the first one of these. Peacetime draft
Answer This is the executive order signed by FDR that forced Japanese Americans onto internment camps. Executive Order 9066
Answer What are the Four Freedoms? Speech, Religion, Fear, Want
Answer World War II broke out when Hitler invaded this country. Poland
Answer Hitler gave up his plan of carrying out Operation Sea Lion because He lost the Battle of Britain
Answer This treaty gave Hitler an insurance policy against having to fight a two-front war The German- Soviet Non- Aggression Pact
Answer Why did Hitler decide to invade the Soviet Union after he lost the Battle of Britain? He needed the wheat and oil
Answer The theory of setting aside one’s beliefs to pacify an aggressor was known as Appeasement
Answer This was signed between FDR and Churchill in Newfoundland and became the backbone of the United Nations. Atlantic Charter
Answer This event set the precedent that national leaders can be held responsible for crimes against humanity Nuremburg Trials
Answer This conference is also known as the Crimea Conference. Yalta
Answer This is the conference where Stalin agreed to declare war on Japan two months after Germany surrendered. Teheran Conference
Answer This was the last wartime conference held in Germany in Potsdam