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Jeopardy! Standard VII C: The student will understand WWII.
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Click Once to Begin JEOPARDY! Standard VII C: The student will understand WWII.
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JEOPARDY! 100 200 300 400 500 Battles in the Pacific Battles in Europe Groups and Individuals The Home Front Germany Post-War
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Daily Double Graphic and Sound Effect! DO NOT DELETE THIS SLIDE! Deleting it may cause the game links to work improperly. This slide is hidden during the game, and WILL not appear. In slide view mode, copy the above (red) graphic (click once to select; right click the border and choose “copy”). Locate the answer slide which you want to be the daily double Right-click and choose “paste”. If necessary, reposition the graphic so that it does not cover the answer text. Daily Double!!!
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Answer 1-100 On what Pacific Ocean island did Japan try to destroy the Pacific Fleet for a second time: American forces lead a successful surprise attack because they had broken the Japanese military code in 1942? Battle of Midway
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Answer 1-200 This was the first US offensive in the Pacific Guadalcanal
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Answer 1-300 This is the name given to the event that occurred in the Philippines when the American and Filipino soldiers were forced to surrender to the Japanese and march through the jungle to their prison camp. Bataan Death March
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Answer 1-400 At this battle, the Americans stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. Battle of the Coral Sea
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Answer 1-500 The number of casualties on these two Japanese islands were part of the reason that convinced President Truman to drop the atomic bombs on Japan Iwo Jima and Okinawa
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Answer 2-100 This was the title of the year long operation that resulted in the D-Day invasion at Normandy Operation Overlord
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Answer 2-200 This was the air battle between the Luftwaffe and the RAF that caused Hitler to begin a two front war. Battle of Britain
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Answer 2-300 The German invasion of the Soviet Union. Operation Barbarossa
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Answer 2-400 The Battle of the Atlantic turned in the Allies’ favor in 1943 with the development of what? Sonar
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Answer 2-500 This was Hitler’s last ditch attempt to force the Allies out of Germany. Battle of the Bulge
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Answer 3-100 List the 5 nations that were the major Allied Powers during WWII. United States England France Soviet Union (Russia) China
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Answer 3-200 List the 3 Axis Powers of WWII. Italy Germany Japan
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Answer 3-300 These men were vital to the Allied war strategy because they were responsible for sending and receiving coded Allied messages; they were never broken by the Japanese Navajo Code Talkers
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Answer 3-400 This race riot occurred in California between American sailors and Mexican men Zoot-Suit Riots
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Answer 3-500 This court case occurred in 1944, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. government was justified in forcing Japanese onto internment camps because during times of war it is constitutional to limit people’s civil liberties. Korematsu vs. United States Daily Double!!!
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Answer 4-100 This was the main way the United States financed the war. War Bonds
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Answer 4-200 Before the U.S. entered WWII, President Roosevelt tried to stay out of the war and help the Allies by shipping weapons and other supplies to Britain. The Allies would pay for the supplies “later”. What act allowed President Roosevelt to do this? The Lend-Lease Act Daily Double!!!
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Answer 4-300 The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was the first one of these. Peacetime draft
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Answer 4-400 This is the executive order signed by FDR that forced Japanese Americans onto internment camps. Executive Order 9066
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Answer 4-500 What are the Four Freedoms? Speech, Religion, Fear, Want
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Answer 5-100 World War II broke out when Hitler invaded this country. Poland
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Answer 5-200 Hitler gave up his plan of carrying out Operation Sea Lion because He lost the Battle of Britain
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Answer 5-300 This treaty gave Hitler an insurance policy against having to fight a two-front war The German- Soviet Non- Aggression Pact
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Answer 5-400 Why did Hitler decide to invade the Soviet Union after he lost the Battle of Britain? He needed the wheat and oil
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Answer 5-500 The theory of setting aside one’s beliefs to pacify an aggressor was known as Appeasement
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Answer 6-100 This was signed between FDR and Churchill in Newfoundland and became the backbone of the United Nations. Atlantic Charter
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Answer 6-200 This event set the precedent that national leaders can be held responsible for crimes against humanity Nuremburg Trials
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Answer 6-300 This conference is also known as the Crimea Conference. Yalta
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Answer 6-400 This is the conference where Stalin agreed to declare war on Japan two months after Germany surrendered. Teheran Conference
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Answer 6-500 This was the last wartime conference held in Germany in 1945. Potsdam
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