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2. President Franklin D. Roosevelt led the US through the Great Depression & most of WWII. How many terms was he elected to as President of the US?

3. Four

4. What type of military vehicles were primarily used by both sides to fight the Battle of Britain?

5. Aircrafts/ Planes

6. Besides the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, HI, all of the following US bases were also attacked on December 7th, 1941, except for: GUAM, the PHILIPPINES, GUANTANAMO BAY, or WAKE ISLAND

7. Guantanamo Bay

8. This act gave FDR the ability to aid the Allies with ships, aircraft, and other weapons without, officially, pulling the US into WWII.

9. Lend-Lease
Act

10. The Allied victory in the Battle of Britain was not only the first defeat for Nazi Germany, but it also left the door open for this, which began on June 6th, 1944

11. Normandy Invasion, Operation Overlord or D-Day

12. When (Day, Month & Year) did Japan attack the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?

13. December 7th, 1941

14. The Atlantic Charter was created at a secret meeting in Newfoundland, Canada between these two Allied leaders in August, 1941.

15. Winston Churchill
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FDR

16. After a four-month long air battle, the Nazi’s gave up their goal of conquering this country because it could not control the air-space over the channel that separated it from the European mainland.

17. Great
Britain

18. A swift evacuation of over 338,000 Allied troops across the English Channel, from here, was aided by over 900 boats of all shapes and sizes over the course of about three days.

19. Dunkirk

20. It was after the defeat of this operation that the Axis Powers, in Europe, went on the defensive for the remainder of WWII.

21. Operation Barbarossa

22. This can be defined as an official policy of a refusal of one country to trade goods and services with another country.

23. Embargo

24. After the Japanese attack on American bases on December 7th, 1941, Japanese Admiral Yamamoto referred to the US as this due its industrial capacity to mass produce on such a large scale

25. A Sleeping Giant

26. Which three Soviet cities did Nazi Germany hope to capture and occupy through Operation Barbarossa?

27. Leningrad
Moscow
Stalingrad

28. What FDR used as a metaphor to describe the WEAPONS the US would be giving to the Allies through the Lend-Lease Act.

29. A
Garden-hose

30. By 1941, the US was ranked nineteenth in the world, militarily; right behind this small European nation that refused to extend the Maginot Line for financial reasons

31. Belgium

32. The type of warfare used by Hitler’s forces to quickly subdue the resisting nations of Europe.

33. Blitzkrieg

34. The US placed an embargo on oil to Japan after they invaded this French colony, which comprised of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, in 1940

35. Indochina

36. What does the term Blitzkrieg translate to in English?

37. Lightning War

38. What were two of the three main reasons that Operation Barbarossa failed?

39. The Nazis underestimated the military strength of the Soviet Union
The poor roads of the Soviet Union slowed the Nazi Blitzkrieg
The vicious & unrelenting Russian Winter

40. The Japanese attack on the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii resulted in the deaths ___,403 Americans.

41. 2

42. Sadly, but also ironically, this US battleship became the first of its kind to ever be sunk by aerial bombers at Pearl Harbor.

43. The USS Arizona

44. To bolster their security after WWI, this country installed a string of interlocking forts along its eastern border called the Maginot Line.

45. France

46. About how many billion dollars in war materials did the US give Great Britain, China & the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease Act?

47. About
$50 Billion

48. In bypassing the Maginot Line, Nazi Germany went through this forest region in Belgium on their way to invading France

49. The Ardennes

50. What were the three main reasons that Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union on June 22nd, 1941?

51. Racism
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