JEOPARDY!JEOPARDY!Unit XIII

Mr. H. MayoMrs. B. Merritt

American History II

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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