World War 2 Battles and Fronts

What does 'Blitzkreig' mean

• air attack

• attack

• lightning war

• tank war

Why was this tactic so good?

• nobody could speak german

• it was very fast and caught people by surprise

• they used nuclear weapons

• Hitler was a nut job

At the beginning of the Blitz there were daily bombing raids

• True

• False

The London Blitz was very successful for Germany. Great Britain surrendered after several months of daily bombings

• True

• False

Code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII

• Operation Overlord
• Operation Barbarossa
• D-Day
• Hiroshima & Nagasaki

What was the reaction of the United States to the attack on Pearl Harbor?

• They declared war on Japan the next day

• They fled back to the US coast and let Japan have Southeast Asia

• They asked Great Britain for help

• They waited several months to see what would happen next

Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?      

• Because they wanted to continue to take over countries in Southeast Asia 
• Because they wanted to cripple the US Navy
• Because they wanted to prevent the US from attacking Japan 
• All of the above

Who did Hitler blame for most of the Germany's problems?

• Americans
• Christians
• Muslims
• Jews

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In a show of Appeasement, the Munich Agreement allowed -

• Germany to take the Sudetenland

• Germany to not take any more land

• Czechoslovakia to decide whether Germany gets the Sudetenland or not

• France to surrender to Germany

The military strategy practice by Americans against the Japanese was called

• puddle-jumping

• island-hopping

• Operation strikeback

• Island campaign