Final Quiz
Quiz
- Great Britain declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, soon after Germany invaded _____.
- _______ was prime minister of Great Britain at the beginning of World War II.
- Winston Churchill wrote that Soviet society is modeled after the ______.
- The term "Phony War" describes _____.
- Bolshevik leaders were injected into Russia during World War I by which foreign power?
- The Allied theory of air power emphasized ______.
- The name for the German air force is ______.
- Germany invaded the Soviet Union in _____.
- The Axis powers attempted to counter Allied air superiority through ________.
- In early 1945, General _______ took over the XXI Bomber Command, based on the Mariana Islands, and introduced low-altitude napalm bombing raids.
- ________ was the nineteenth century American naval strategist whose theories regarding the importance of battleships were influential before World War II.
- The Germans attempted to make up for their lack of aircraft carriers by increasing their production of _______.
- The Allies countered the success of the 1942 German U-boat campaign by ______.
- In 1944, the Allies achieved naval _____ in the waters surrounding Europe.
- According to Dr. Hanson, Admiral ________ made important tactical mistakes during the attack on Pearl Harbor and at the Battle of Midway.
- In 1941, the universal soldier was equipped with _____.
- As chief of staff of the United States Army, _____ was responsible for organizing the expansion of U.S. armed forces.
- Operation ______ was the name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June of 1941.
- The most successful airborne operation of World War II occurred during ______.
- Admiral Chester Nimitz conducted an American offensive strategy that proceeded from Guadalcanal to _________.
- In World War I, the strategic importance of armored vehicles was demonstrated at the Battle of ______.
- The German word for a tank is _______.
- The reliable and versatile American _______ tank was produced in large quantities.
- At the ________ in the winter of 1944, the Germans attempted to recalibrate the Western front by sending a thin thrust of armored forces through the Allied lines.
- The majority of American tanks destroyed in World War II were a result of ____.
- Many German death camps, including Auschwitz and Treblinka, were located in occupied _______.
- During World War I, Franklin D. Roosevelt served as _______.
- Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini both held the rank of ______ in World War I.
- The highest death tolls of World War II were recorded in which two countries?
- Historians now estimate that roughly _______ people died during World War II.
- _________ was the international organization created in the aftermath of World War I.
- Adolf Hitler declared that he would give an estate to _______ when Germany won World War II.
- The ________ divided post-war Germany into four zones.
- The United States government gave power and freedom to steel magnate and shipbuilder ______ in order to increase American ship production.
- According to Dr. Hanson, the tragedy of World War II can be summarized as the result of _______, which allowed fascism to thrive and grow.
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