2. 8 th grade WWII

3. 100 200 400 300 400 Choice1Choice 2Choice 3Choice 4 300 200 400 200 100 500 100

4. Row 1, Col 1 What does Blitzkreig mean? Lightning war

5. 1,2 What was the Manhattan Project? A plan for developing a nuclear bomb.

6. 1,3 Who were the Axis Powers? Italy, Germany, Japan

7. 1,4 Who were the Allied Powers? Great Britain, U.S., France

8. 2,1 A form of government that is built on extreme nationalism is called….. Facism

9. 2,2 Strategy used by Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific. Island hopping

10. 2,3 What was the reason for the Nuremberg trials? To show that people (Hitler’s commanders) are responsible for their actions.

11. 2,4 What event caused the U.S. to get involved in the war? The attack on Pearl Harbor

12. 3,1 What two cities were bombed in Japan? Nagasaki and Hiroshima

13. 3,2 Which country had a strong economy and military at the end of the war? The U.S.

14. 3,3 What and where was D-Day? The invasion at Normandy, France by Great Britain, U.S., and Canada

15. 3,4 Who signed the Non-aggression Pact and why? Russia and Germany. They agreed not to attack each other and to split up Poland.

16. 4,1 What event started WWII? Germany invading Poland

17. 4,2 Who was Benito Mussolini? A leader/dictator of Italy

18. 4,3 Who were the WASPS and WACS WASPS were women pilots who flew planes for the U.S. and WACS were women nurses/clerks

19. 5,1 Camps used by the U.S. in response to Pearl Harbor What were interment camps.

20. 5,2 Who was Joseph Stalin? Communist leader/dictator of the Soviet Union

21. 5,3 Who was Dwight Eisenhower? Commanded U.S. troops in Africa and Europe

22. 5,4 Who was Douglas MacArthur? He was the Allied commander in the Pacific (Philippines and Australia)