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American Studies
WWII
Chapter 12+13
Name______________________
World War II Test Review Guide: 2011
1. She symbolized American women during the war who took on
previously male dominated jobs
2. Picasso painting of a Spanish town where Total War began in
1937 (and the name of the town itself)
3. US plane that dropped the atomic bomb
4. Japanese city that was destroyed by the 1st atomic bomb ever
dropped
5. A war in which there are no rules and civilians are ‘fair game’
6. A way of limiting the consumption of essential goods needed for
the war effort
7. President who died less than a month before the war ended in
Europe
8. Economic measure that soared during the War (three letters)
9. Reflected extreme prejudice: "A Jap's a Jap and the only good one
is...(three words)"
10. Hitler's decision to exterminate the Jews from Europe
11. President who decided to drop the Atomic bomb to end the war
quickly and save American lives
12. Conference where the Allies decided to engage in Total War on
Germany and Japan
13. Neighborhood volunteer who shouted, "Lights Out!"
14. Japan attacked here on December 7, 1941
15. Death camp in southern Poland where over 1.5 million Jews
were murdered
16. Trial in southern Germany where Nazi war criminals were tried
for crimes against humanity
17. Shaped public opinion during the war in America
18. The day Germany surrendered was called ______ Day
19. Concept of surrounding Germany (Russia driving west, the other
Allies driving south, east and north) and pushing them back to
Berlin
20. Mother who lost a son or daughter in the service
21. Term for an event during WWII when European Jews were
systematically murdered in an attempted genocide perpetrated by
the Nazis
22. Japanese-American whose refusal to be relocated into an
internment camp during WWII went all the way to the Supreme
Court
23. Chinese city where Japanese soldiers committed horrible
atrocities
24. Pledge of unions during the war: “No __________”
25. German industrial city, far inland, that was destroyed in Allied
fire-bombing
26. Ship that carried Jewish refugees who were denied entry into the
US by FDR
27. June 6, 1944 was called ___________ Day
28. The day Japan surrendered was called ___________ Day
29. 76 consecutive nights of German bombing over London were
called
30. Brutal dictator of the Soviet Union
31. Executive order 9066 ordered these Americans into internment
camps
32. People targeted in Total War
33. Country that lost the most citizens (both civilians and military)
during WWII
34. The French Wall of China was really known as the
35. Who had inspiring things to say during the Blitz and very insightful ones
throughout his career?
36. Hitler’s invasion of Russia was called Operation ___________
37. The Supreme Court’s decision allowing internment of Japanese Americans
38. What happened on May 8, 1945?
39. Two cities attacked with nuclear weapons
40. Nickname for the secret project to build a nuclear weapon
41. Two cities fire-bombed by the U.S.
42. A ___ Star mother had a son injured in battle during WWII
43. Anti-war (and so, branded pro-Hitler) group that included Charles Lindbergh
and Henry Ford
44. People who thought the oceans would protect us and we should stay out of
Europe’s and Asia’s affairs
45. De-coding machine that helped the British (also the name of the German code
it “broke”)
46. Name of the German air force
47. Name of the Japanese main fighter aircraft
48. Name Mussolini wanted to be called
49. Name of the pro-Nazi puppet government in southern France
50. Good example of US home front policy that was the same in WWII as in WWI
(Hint: meatless Tuesdays)
51. Document Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to on a ship during the worst year
of the war for the U.S. and Britain
52. Russian town where Churchill and the dying Roosevelt got out-debated and
made a promise to Stalin that he could be first to Berlin
53. Helped to shape American public opinion during the war
54. Roosevelt’s directive to put Japanese Americans in internment camps
55. Some of the cost of WWII was met by people’s patriotic investment in…
56. If a bully asks for a dollar, and you offer them 50 cents if they promise to leave
you alone, your policy is known as?
57. The policy described in #56 allowed Hitler to take over ___ in stages without
resistance
58. Part of Poland where ethnic Germans from Prussia lived
59. Province of China where Japan invaded in the early ‘30s and the League of
Nations did nothing (thus encouraging future aggression)
60. What Hitler said the new German government in Weimar had done to their
own people by signing the Versailles treaty (his phrase)
61. As part of ‘closing the ring’, US forces from North Africa took the island of
Sicily and then crossed into ___, with the hope of marching northward
62. Term used to describe the plan for moving our forces, slowly and step-by-step,
across the Pacific and close enough to attack Japan
63. Japan’s admiral who said after Pearl Harbor, “I fear we have awakened a
sleeping giant”
64. Big naval battle in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that turned the tide in our
favor
65. Coral atoll (tiny island) where Japanese resistance to US Marines was so
fierce, people used it to project over a million US dead if we attempted to invade
Japan itself
66. Bonus Army general in charge of our ground forces in the Pacific
67. German general known as the “Desert Fox”
68. British general who defeated the “Desert Fox” in Egypt, at El Alamein
69. Chief of Staff of the whole U.S. Army during WWII
70. Lesser-ranked general who got along with the British and was chosen for that
reason to lead the Normandy (cross-Channel) invasion
71. Any invasion of land from a body of water
72. Mother whose son or daughter was serving in the military: _______ Star
Mother
73. Postwar meeting of Stalin and the new US and British leaders, where some say
the Cold War began
74. Death camp the US liberated (first built as concentration camp for
communists)
75. This 1935 event foreshadowed the burning of Jewish Holocaust victims
76. Soviet city besieged by the Germans, who were later surrounded there by the
Russians themselves
77. City where the first bombs fell in 1939 and where, four years later, the first
armed Jewish resistance took place
78. Former Soviet capital besieged for 2+ years and supplied across a frozen lake
79. Our pre-war policy of giving weapons to Britain and Russia, while staying
neutral ourselves
80. 1940 gift of these helped Britain defend itself, especially from U-Boats
81. Country that defended itself with spears against Italian aggression
82. What the N sound and the Tz sound in ‘Nazi’ translate to in English
83. French defensive fortification the Germans avoided by blitzing through the
Ardennes
84. Superb U.S. general who won battles in North Africa, Sicily and Italy
85. Spanish fascist leader who won that civil war in the ‘30s but helped us in the
end by telling Hitler, “Stay Out!”