Jeopardy Vocabulary Battles People Groups Events Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question Side that consisted of the U.S., Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, etc.

$100 Answer Allies

$200 Question Side that consisted of Germany, Italy, And Japan.

$200 Answer Axis Powers

$300 Question Means Lightning Warfare

$300 Answer Blitzkreig

$400 Question A shift in a country’s economy from making peacetime to wartime goods.

$400 Answer Mobilization

$500 Question The executive order that caused the evacuation of Japanese Americans into internment camps

$500 Answer Executive Order 9066

$100 Question What event brought the U.S. Into WWII?

$100 Answer Bombing of Pearl Harbor Dec. 7 th 1941

$200 Question On June 6 th 1944, the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France. What was this known as?

$200 Answer D-Day Bonus: What is the official military name? Operation Overlord

$300 Question What Naval battle is considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific Theater

$300 Answer The Battle of Midway

$400 Question What was the largest amphibious Landing in military history?

$400 Answer Invasion of Normandy, France/D-Day

$500 Question Where did the first military combat by the U.S. take place in the European Theater of war?

$500 Answer North Africa

$100 Question Fascist dictator of Germany

$100 Answer Adolf Hitler

$200 Question U.S. president that authorized the use of The atomic bomb.

$200 Answer Harry Truman

$300 Question British Prime Minister during WWII

$300 Answer Winston Churchill

$400 Question Dictator of Italy during WWII

$400 Answer Benito Mussolini

$500 Question Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII

$500 Answer Joseph Stalin

$100 Question What was the name of the Army Air Corps’ first black combat unit

$100 Answer Tuskegee Airmen

$200 Question During the war women served in The army as part of what group?

$200 Answer Women’s Army Corps

$300 Question What was the name of the campaign to win the war and end racism and segregation

$300 Answer The Double V Campaign

$400 Question What government agency was responsible For converting industries to military Production?

$400 Answer War Production Board (WPB)

$500 Question What problem was targeted by the Office of Price Administration?

$500 Answer Inflation

$100 Question What event prompted Japan to surrender To the Allies on August 14, 1945?

$100 Answer The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

$200 Question What was the systematic murder of over 11 million Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII known as

$200 Answer Holocaust Genocide –systematic killing of any group

$300 Question What event was the direct cause of WWII

$300 Answer The invasion of Poland by Germany

$400 Question What allowed the U.S. to give support to Great Britain before our entry into the war?

$400 Answer Lend-Lease Act

$500 Question What was the meeting in 1938 that gave The Sudetenland (in Czechoslovakia) to Hitler

$500 Answer Munich Conference Bonus: What type of policy were the British and French practicing? Appeasement

Final Jeopardy Put the following events in chronological order: A) D-Day B) Bombing of Pearl Harbor C) Munich Pact, D) Invasion of Poland

Final Jeopardy Answer Munich Pact Invasion of Poland – 1939 Pearl Harbor – 1941 D-Day