WW2--part 2

Hitler invaded this country and officially began WW2 on this date:

• Poland; September 1, 1939

• Czechslovakia; September 1, 1939

• Poland; December 1939

• France; June 6, 1944

The Japanese attacked us at this naval base on _________________ and officially brought us into war

• Pearl Harbor; December 7, 1941

• Pearl Harbor; September 1, 1939

• Normandy; June 6, 1944

• Dunkirk; June 6, 1944

The Allied invasion at Normandy that liberated France and eventually Europe occurred on ____________ and is known as _____________.

• June 6, 1944; D-Day

• June 6, 1944; Pearl Harbor Day

• December 7, 1941; Dunkirk Day

• July 4, 1944; Paris Day

This battle occurred in Belgium in December 1944. The Germans pushed into Allied lines but never broke through. It was cold and brutal and was the last Nazi offensive.

• Battle of the Bulge

• Battle of the Marne

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Hitler's Last Stand

FDR didn't see the end of the war because he died on ______________ of a stroke at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia.

• April 12, 1945

• April 30, 1945

• December 7, 1941

• June 6, 1944

Hitler shot himself in a Berlin bunker on ________________ so that he would not have to surrender, be tortured, or humiliated.

• April 30, 1945

• April 12, 1945

• May 8, 1945

• September 2, 1945

May 8, 1945 is

• Victory in Europe Day

• Victory in Japan Day

• The day Hitler died

• D-Day

V-J Day is ______________ and means _______________.

• September 2, 1945; Victory in Japan

• September 2, 1945; Victory in Jesus

• May 8, 1945; Victory in Europe

• April 8, 1945; Victory in Japan

August 6 and 9, 1945 are significant because

• we dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• we bombed the Germans at Berlin and Nuremberg

• The Japanese were bombed on the 6th and surrendered on the 9th.

• We won the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

British and French soldiers were driven to the English Channel by the Germans and rescued by private boats of the British at:

• Dunkirk

• London

• Stalingrad

• Paris