1. World War II By: Haley Brinkman
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World War II
By: Haley Brinkman

2. Question #1
When war broke out in Europe, what did the United States want to maintain?
Isolationism

3. Question #2
The 1930s was the time for the rise of what?
Dictators

4. Question #3 In 1937, what did Japan seize most of for raw materials?
Coastal shores of China

5. Question #4
When did Hitler come to power in Germany?
1933

6. Question #5
Who did Hitler blame for the outcome of World War 1 and Germany’s economic failures? What did he do to them?
Jewish people, persecute them

7. Question #6
What did Great Britain and France let Hitler do to give appeasement?
Let him take over Sudetenland, a part Czechoslovakia

8. Question #7 What is appeasement?
The policy of giving an aggressor what it wants in order to avoid war

9. Question #8 What happened in September 1, 1939?
German troops invaded Poland

10. Question #9
What did the US want to hold onto during the start of World War 2?
Neutralism

11. Question #10 What caused the US to declare war on Japan?
Bombing of Pearl Harbor

12. Question #11
When was the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
December 7,1941

13. Question #12 What day did the US Congress declare war on Japan?
December 8, 1941

14. Question #13 What two fronts did the US have to fight?
Africa front with Great Britain and France + the Pacific vs. Japan

15. Question #14 How many missions did the Tuskegee Airmen fly?

16. Question #15
When did Britain and American troops win the area of North Africa?
May of 1943

17. Question #16 What happened in 1943?
American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named Supreme Commander of Allied Forces

18. Question #17
When was D-Day?
June 6, 1944

19. Question #18 What happened on D-Day?
Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France

20. Question #19 What happened shortly after D-Day?
Allied forces pushed Germany out of France

21. Question #20
What happened at the same time of the Allied forces pushing Germany out of France?
Russian forces were recapturing smaller countries that were allied to Germany

22. Question #21
When was VE Day?
May 8,1945

23. Question #22
What does the ‘VE’ stand for in VE Day?
Victory in Europe

24. Question #23
At what river did the US and Russian troops meet at in the center of Germany?
Elbe River

25. Question #24
When did Hitler commit suicide?
April 30,1945

26. Question #25
When did the final German troops surrender?
May 1945