JEOPARDY!JEOPARDY!Unit XIII
Mr. H. MayoMrs. B. Merritt
American History II
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BattleBattles & s & AsiaAsia
EuropeEuropean & an &
African African BattlesBattles
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Home Home FrontFront
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FINAL JEOPARDY
Who was the European dictator
who came to power by being
appointed?100
Adolph Hitler
People
Who was the military leader who planned the Allied forces’ D-
Day invasion?200
General Dwight D.
Eisenhower
People BONUS
Bonus: . Who was the
Japanese leader during World
War II
Emperor Hirohito
People
Who was the leader who ruled the
Soviet Union with an iron hand?
300
Joseph Stalin
People
Who was the person who said of the Pearl Harbor
bombing that “December 7, 1941
is a day that will live in infamy”?
400
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
People
Who was the American general who stated “I shall
return”?
500
General Douglas MacArthur
People
What term describes the
strategy in which troops would attack
and seize certain islands? 100
Island Hopping
Vocabulary
What is the withdrawal from
world affairs called that will keep the
US from joining the league of nations?
200
Isolationism
Vocabulary
What term describes the
systematic and purposeful
destruction of racial, religious, or
cultural group?300
Genocide
Vocabulary
What term describes the
killing of more than 6 million Jews by
the Nazis?
400
The Holocaust
Vocabulary
What term means “lightning war”?
500
Blitzkrieg
Vocabulary BONUS
Bonus: What did Hitler
call his Nazi policy towards the murder and
horrible treatment of
Jews?
The Final Solution
Vocabulary
What occurred on December 7, 1941 and brought the
United States into World War II?
100
Bombing of Pear Harbor
Pacific Battles and Asia
What battle was the turning point in the Pacific where the United States navy destroyed a larger Japanese
naval force? 200
The Battle of Midway
Pacific Battles and Asia
Where did General MacArthur promise
to return?
300
The Philippines
Pacific Battles and Asia
Why was the decision made to drop the atomic
bomb on Hiroshima?
400
To save American lives and shorten
the war
Pacific Battles and Asia
What battle lasted only a month and was located 750
miles from Tokyo?
500
The Battle of Iwo Jima
Pacific Battles and Asia
What event started World War II?
100
The German invasion of Poland
European & African Battles
What was the last German offensive of the war which
opened up Germany for
invasion after their defeat?
200
The Battle of the Bulge
European & African Battles
During what battle were German forces were stopped
just short of seizing Egypt and the Suez Canal by the British? (This defeat stops
Hitler from gaining access to Middle Eastern oil supplies
and attacking USSR from the South.)
300
El Alamein
European & African Battles
BONUS
Bonus: What name is given to the allied forces’ invasion of France at
Normandy in 1944?
D-Day
European & African Battles
What battle was the turning point in the war on the eastern
front? (It stops Hitler from seizing
Oil fields USSR. Germany will lose
hundreds of thousands of its finest soldiers.)
400
Battle of Stalingrad
European & African Battles
What nation did Italy take in 1936 despite warnings
from the League of Nations?
500
Ethiopia
European & African Battles
Name the three Axis powers.
100
Germany, Italy, Japan
Hodgepodge
Who wrote four letters to FDR
informing him of the possibilities
of recent research on uranium?
200
Albert Einstein
Hodgepodge
What agreement best illustrates the
policy of Appeasement?
300
Munich Pact
Hodgepodge
What agreement, signed by Roosevelt
and Churchill, outlined the war
goals of their countries? 400
Atlantic Charter
Hodgepodge
To help farmers in the Southwest with their crops during the war,
the US instituted which program? 500
Bracero Program
Hodgepodge
What law provided arms and other supplies to non-Axis countries in
exchange for military bases in Bermuda and the
Caribbean?
100
Lend-Lease Act
Odds and Ends
What country’s soldiers committed suicide rather than
surrender?
200
Japan
Odds and Ends
What area was affected by the Munich Pact?
300
The Sudetenland
Odds and Ends
African Americans were encouraged to
join the war effort in order to achieve? ?
400
Double V
Odds and Ends
What is the name of the set of trials
in which Nazi leaders and others were convicted of
war crimes? 500
Nuremburg Trials
Odds and Ends BONUS
Bonus:
Name four German
concentration camps.
Auschwitz, Treblinka,
Buchenwald, Belsen
Odds and Ends
What happened in the area of job
opportunities for women during
World War II?100
Women gained many employment
opportunities
Home Front
What law provided financial assistance
to veterans who wanted to buy a house or starta business? 200
The G.I. Bill
Home Front
What do the Holocaust,
segregation of black troops and
imprisonment of Nisei have in
common?300
Prejudice and discrimination
Home Front
What impact did World War II have
on the Great Depression?
400
Workers got jobs in defense factories
Home Front
What was the ruling in Korematsu v. United States?
500
Japanese-Americans could be sent to relocation
centersHome Front BONUS
Bonus:
Where was the first atomic
bomb built and tested? ?
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Home Front
Hitler
FINAL JEOPARY
FINAL JEOPARDY:
List 4 features that were involved in Hitler’s rise to
power?answer
Revenge, Economic problems,
“Master race,” Treaty of
Versailles The End