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Leaders
Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from H1
The President of the United
States from 1933-1945
$100 Answer from H1
Franklin D. Roosevelt
$200 Question from H1
Fascist leader of Italy during
WWII who was eventually
executed and hung in 1945.
$200 Answer from H1
Benito Mussolini
$300 Question from H1
Communist Dictator of the Soviet
Union who initiated the “Great
Purge”
$300 Answer from H1
Joseph Stalin
$400 Question from H1
Prime Minister of Great
Britain at the end of WWII
$400 Answer from H1
Winston Churchill
$500 Question from H1
“The Razor” – Prime Minister
Of Japan
$500 Answer from H1
Hideki Tojo
$100 Question from H2
What fictional character is
portrayed here:
$100 Answer from H2
Rosie the Riveter
$200 Question from H2
Gardens planted by Americans on
The home front during WWII to
Help conserve produce
$200 Answer from H2
Victory Gardens
$300 Question from H2
After Pearl Harbor, JapaneseAmericans on the west coast
were sent to 10 of these
$300 Answer from H2
Internment Camps or Concentration Camps
$400 Question from H2
Name 3 items that were rationed
during WWII
$400 Answer from H2
Gas, oil, sugar, meat, butter, nylon,
$500 Question from H2
A series of riots that erupted
in Los Angeles between white sailors
and Mexican-American youths
$500 Answer from H2
Zoot Suit Riots
$100 Question from H3
Germany’s last offensive of WWII.
$100 Answer from H3
Battle of the Bulge
$200 Question from H3
Soviet City that was surrounded by
German troops in 1941 and placed under siege
For 900 days.
$200 Answer from H3
Siege of Leningrad
$300 Question from H3
2 Million Soviets died in the battle
defending this city. This battle
represented a major turning point in
the war.
$300 Answer from H3
Stalingrad
$400 Question from H3
The Battle after which this photo was taken of
U.S. Marines hoisting an American Flag.
$400 Answer from H3
Iwo Jima
$500 Question from H3
It was decided to let the Soviets be the
ones to invade the city during this
battle due to the extremely high
casualty rates they had suffered at the
hands of the Germans
$500 Answer from H3
Battle for Berlin
$100 Question from H4
Capturing small islands one at a time,
Gradually getting closer to Japan with
The goal of being able to launch an invasion
$100 Answer from H4
Island Hopping
$200 Question from H4
The U.S. General who was
forced to surrender the
Philippines to the Japanese in
1941
$200 Answer from H4
General MacArthur
$300 Question from H4
The Allied nation that the
Japanese wanted to be able to
reach --- why they trying to
build an airbase on
Guadalcanal
$300 Answer from H4
Australia
$400 Question from H4
Event during which 75,000 American
and Filipino POWs were marched 80
miles to prison camps. Only 54,000
eventually reached the camps.
$400 Answer from H4
Bataan Death March
$500 Question from H4
The Day Japan surrendered (what it is
Known as) and its day, month and year.
$500 Answer from H4
V-J Day: August 14, 1945
$100 Question from H5
WWII began in Europe in 1939
When Germany invaded this country
$100 Answer from H5
Poland
$200 Question from H5
The name of the German Airforce
$200 Answer from H5
Luftwaffe
$300 Question from H5
German speaking region in Czechoslovakia
that was taken over by Hitler
$300 Answer from H5
Sudetenland
$400 Question from H5
“Line of defense” built by France to
protect itself from German aggression. It
was never actually used.
$400 Answer from H5
Maginot Line
$500 Question from H5
Major Nations & their leaders who participated in
the Munich Conference. What was promised at
this Conference?
$500 Answer from H5
France: Daladier
Great Britain: Chamberlain
Germany: Hitler
Italy: Mussolini
*Hitler promises not to pursue any
further territorial expansion
*APPEASEMENT
Final Jeopardy
In 1945, the United States made a difficult decision to
end the war against Japan by using a very powerful new
weapon. What was this new weapon and what cities was
it used against? Who ultimately made the decision to use
this weapon and why did he make the decision to use it?
Describe at least two other possible alternatives that
could have been chosen. In your opinion, did the United
States do the right thing by using this weapon? Why or
why not?
Final Jeopardy Answer
Atomic Bombs
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
President Truman
Saved American lives – avoided a land invasion
Demonstration, land invasion, negotiate surrender
with condition, wait for Soviet Union