World War II vocab quiz

Codename for building of atomic bomb

• operation overlord

• manhattan project

• Bracero Program

• project 832

This was a new type of warfare that the Germans used to run through France and Poland in the early parts of WWII. It is also known as Lightning War.

• Hitler bombing

• Blitzkrieg

• Ran-sacking

• Sitzkrieg

Which leader became president in 1945?

• FDR
• Woodrow Wilson
• Harry Truman
• Winston Churchill

Name the military strategy used by the allies during the War in the Pacific to get closer to the Japanese mainland? 

• Blitzkrieg 
• Island Hopping 
• Kamikaze pilots 
• Amphibious attacks 

Why was the Soviet Union not prepared to fight Germany during World War 2?

• Nonaggression Pact

• Stalin and Hitler were good friends

• Extreme weather

• Lebensraum

Which WWII leader declared war on Germany and Japan, and was loved by many Americans for the programs he developed ?

• Winston Churchill
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman
• Adolf Hitler

Which famous WWII leader was the dictator of the Soviet Union that had an alliance with Germany at the beginning of the war but later joined forces with the allied powers.

• Benito Mussolini

• Adolf Hitler

• Vladimir Lenin

• Joseph Stalin

last offensive by Germany

• battle of Britain
• battle of Stalingrad
• Battle of the Bulge
• battle of midway

United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany, became the 34th President of the United States

• Harry S. Truman

• Henry Kaiser

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Douglas MacArthur

name of the genocide against the Jews by the Nazis

• Holocaust

• Night of Broken Glass

• Great Purge

• Concentration Camps