DE/APUSH World War 2 Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Turning point in the pacific, American codebreakers intercepted Japanese plans to attack	Battle of Midway	100%
June 6, 1944	D-Day	100%
Turning point in North Africa for the allies, battle in October 1942 led by British General Bernard Law Montgomery and German General Erwin Rommel "The Desert Fox"	El Alamein	100%
The US remained neutral until the bombing of _____ ______ on December 7, 1941	Pearl Harbor	100%
Germany failed to invade this city in 1943 because of the USSR's harsh winters slowing them down.	Stalingrad	100%
Whose strategy: Europe first, island hopping to gain territory	Allies	0%
Whose strategy: Expansion into north africa and asia for territory and oil, extending territory over 1 million miles in the pacific	Axis	0%
The Japanese invaded Luzon, Philippines in January 1942. Despite insufficient supplies, American and Filipino troops fought for three months. Eventually, they surrendered to Japanese troops and were forced into the ______ _____ _____.	Baatan Death March	0%
May 7-8 1942, pacific battle that stopped Japanese aggression towards Australia. The ships didn't fire a single shot because they used aircrafts launched from carriers	Battle of Coral Sea	0%
Battle in France that was at the time occupied by Germany, and the assault—codenamed Operation Overlord—landed some 156,000 Allied soldiers on the beaches by the end of the day.	Battle of Normandy	0%
July 1944, meeting that laid the foundations for the modern international monetary system and created the World Bank	Bretton Woods Conference	0%
A U.S. air raid that targeted major cities in Japan on April 18, 1942. The attack aimed to lift Allied spirits and incite fear in the Japanese population in retribution for the recent attack at Pearl Harbor	Doolittle's Raid	0%
In 1942, a black american newspaper launched the ______ _ campaign, that championed military success against fascism overseas, and equality for African Americans in the United States	Double V Campaign	0%
February 19, 1942, executive order ____ established the relocation of japanese americans into internment camps	Executive Order 9066	0%
January 6, 1941, Roosevelt gave a speech to congress urging the US to end neutrality, his ____ ________ speech	Four Freedoms Speech	0%
After Japan still refused surrender, the US dropped the "little boy" atomic bomb on August 6, 1945 on which city in an attempt to force Japan to unconditionally surrender?	Hiroshima	0%
Court case that affirmed the Japanese internment camps were legal, "The validity of action under the war power must be judged wholly in the context of war." Angered many civil-liberties activists	Korematsu v. U.S.	0%
The US deciphered Japanese secret messages by decoding them with what system?	MAGIC	0%
3 days later, August 9, 1945, the US dropped the "Fat man" on which city?	Nagasaki	0%
Code talkers who used their native language in the pacific to speak in a way the Japanese couldn't understand	Navajo Code Talkers	0%
Mid 1941, Hitler broke what with the Soviet Union?	Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact	0%
Fighting 442nd of 2nd generation Japanese immigrants who wanted to prove their loyalty to America	Nisei Regiment	0%
Office created in 1942 to mobilize the US public's opinion, basically to create propaganda in support of the War and the New Deal	Office of War Information (OWI)	0%
After Japan invades and brutalizes China and Manchuria, the US placed an embargo on ___ and _____	Oil and Steel	0%
Operation _____ - Allied troops landed in Sicily, the US went up the east coast and the british up the west. After 38 days of combat, Mussolini was arrested July 25, 1943	Operation Husky	0%
Hitler overran France and bombed Britain during the summer/fall in 1940, under German operation ___ ____	Operation Sea Lion	0%
Operation led by Dwight Eisenhower at El Alamein to trap Rommel.	Operation Torch	0%
American project led by J. Robert Oppenheimer to research the possibility of nuclear weapons	The Manhattan Project	0%
Major international trials 1945-46 that placed 24 Nazi leaders on trial and sentenced 12 to death. Led to an increased demand for a jewish homeland and consequently the establishment of israel in 1948.	The Nuremberg Trials	0%
A conference took place in Russian from February 4–11, 1945. At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world. Established the United Nations and divided up Europe.	The Yalta Conference	0%
332 fighter group called the "red tails" because they painted the tails of their planes red	Tuskegee Airmen	0%
April 1945, the US and USSR invaded Berlin and forced a surrender. The battle began April 16, Hitler shot himself April 30, and Berlin surrendered May 2nd. May 8, 1945 became celebrated as __ Day.	VE day	0%
August 14, 1945, Japan unconditionally surrendered in __ day, securing the end of WW2.	VJ day	0%
First lady Eleanor Roosevelt pushed for women's involvement in the military upon the US entering the war. What were women who joined the Women's Army Corps called?	WACs	0%
What were women air-force service pilots called? They often helped train recruits and ferry aircrafts and supplies to troops.	WASPS	0%
The US navy then created the _____ for women to enlist.	WAVES	0%

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