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WORLD WAR TWO POWERPOINT QUESTIONS
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List the six theaters of war.
List Hitler’s 8 allies or partners.
List the 12 Allies powers in WW II.
Describe what happened to Poland in September of 1939.
In your own words write a statement comparing Germany’s military strength with that of
Poland’s.
6. Who was the British Prime Minister in 1939? What is a prime minister?
7. Based on steel production and population which side do you think would win WW II?
8. List four tools of the blitzkrieg. You will have to look at more than one slide to get the answers.
9. List five nations Hitler conquered in Northwestern Europe.
10. Describe what the Maginot line was.
11. What happened at Dunkirk?
12. Describe what you think is going on in the slide with the man on the verge of crying.
13. Describe what Vichy France was.
14. List three neutral nations in August 1940.
15. Who became the new British Prime Minister in 1940?
16. Why would Hitler have a harder time conquering Britain then he did the rest of Europe?
17. What was the name of the German air force, the British air force?
18. Compare the strengths of the British and German air forces at the start of the Battle of Britain.
19. What played an important part in defeating the Luftwaffe?
20. Describe what the “Blitz” was.
21.What shocked the world in 1939?
22. Why did Hitler sign a nonaggression pact with his enemy the USSR?
23. Compare the German and Russian armies on the eve of the invasion.
24. What was wrong with Soviet equipment at the start of the war?
25. Name the Russian tank that was superior to anything the Germans had in 1941.
26. Describe Operation Barbarossa.
27.At what battle were the Germans stopped in 1941-2?
28. Compare the German and Soviet losses from June 1941 to January 1942.
29.What was in the Caucasus’s that the Germans wanted?
30. Name the city that the Germans attacked in the summer of 1942?
31. What river was Stalingrad on?
32. Was it easy for the Germans to capture Stalingrad? Why?
33. Describe Operation Uranus.
34. Based on the slides which side won the Battle of Stalingrad?
35. How many Germans were captured at Stalingrad? How many came home after the war was
over?
36. What was the “bulge” called in 1943?
37. List three new Germans armored vehicles used for the first time at Kursk.
38. Which side won the battle of Kursk?
39. Describe what happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941.
40. What were the most important war ships in the pacific war?
41. What happened at Singapore in Feb of 1942?
42. How many Americans were captured in the Philippines and what happened to many of them?
43. Who invaded the Philippines and conquered it in 1942?
44. What continent/nation is the Coral Sea next two?
45. When was the battle of the Coral Sea fought? Where were the Japanese trying to invade?
46. Which side won the battle of the Coral Sea? Why?
47. Explain why code breakers were important to the U.S. during the war?
48. Who was Joseph Rochefort and why was he important?
49.How did the U.S. determine Midway would be the target of the next Japanese invasion?
50. What island is Midway close to?
51.What were the aircraft carrier losses for both sides at Midway?
52. Which country won the Midway battle? Why was it an important victory?
53. Who was known as the “desert fox’? What side was he on?
54. After the Allied victory in North Africa what two places did they next invade?
55. How much impact did the Italian campaign have on the wars outcome?
56. What island was the target of the U.S.’s first offensive in the Pacific?
57. What was one goal the U.S. had in invading Guadalcanal?
58. What was the airstrip on Guadalcanal named?
59. Who won the battle of Guadalcanal?
60. Explain what happened to the federal budget between 1940 and 1945.
61. What is rationing?
62. What two things were rationed?
63. What type of jobs did women do in WW II?
64. Explain why the Tuskegee Airmen were?
65. Which unit was the most highly decorated in the U.S. military?
66. Describe why the Navajo Code talkers were used during the war.
67. Explain what happened to many Japanese Americans during the war.
68. List four Japanese interment camps.
69. What city had race riots in 1943?
70. What happened in Los Angeles in 1943?
71. What did Americans abandon after the war?
72. Who found new opportunities because of the war?
73. What was D-Day?
74. How many trucks and tanks were used for D-Day?
75. List the five invasion beaches.
76. Who was the allied supreme commander?
77. Describe what a paratrooper is.
78. Was the D-Day invasion successful?
79. Describe what happened between June 6th and July 25th 1944.
80. What was Operation Cobra?
81. How did Ultra help defeat a German attack on August 7th?
82. Explain what Ultra was.
83. When was Paris liberated?
84.In what country is the city of Paris?
85. Describe what happened in the Ardennes from the end of 1944 to Feb. 1945.
86. In what part of Europe were there the most Jews?
87. What did Jews have to wear on their clothes in Germany?
88. Where did the Germans send the Jews they rounded up?
89. Define “extermination camp”.
90. What happened in the Warsaw Ghetto?
91. What were three ways Jews were murdered by the Germans?
92. Who was at the Yalta conference and what did they discuss?
93.Why did FDR know that caused him to be cautious at Yalta?
94.Where did Russian and U.S. troops meet?
95.Why was the Battle of Berlin so important?
96.What happened to Hitler?
97.On what date was the war in Europe over?
98.What does “VE Day” mean?
99.Explain why Iwo Jima was invaded.
100. Who took the famous photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima?
101. How many U.S. soldiers (g.i.) were causalities at Iwo Jima?
102. What is the capital city of Japan?
103. How many square miles of Tokyo were destroyed by strategic bombing?
104. Which island is closer to Japan, Midway or Okinawa?
105. Why do you think the Japanese would strongly defend Okinawa (llok at the map)?
106. Why were the causalities so high at Okinawa?
107. Explain what a kamikaze was?
108. What was the battle at Okinawa considered to be a prelude to?
109. What happened on April 12th 1945?
110. Who became President?
111. Describe what happened when the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.
112. What did the Japanese do after the second atomic bomb was dropped?
113. When was and what was VJ Day?
114. What happened to captured German and Japanese war criminals?
115. Which side won WW 2 ?