WWII Quiz

German "Blitz Bombing", bombed London for 57 nights, GB beats Germany

• Battle of Dunkirk

• Battle of Britian

• Battle of Normandy

• Battle of the Bulge

Hitlers 1st planned invasion of USSR; FAILS

• Operation Barbarossa

• Battle of Stalingrad

• Battle of Britian

• Battle of Dunkirk

Japanese attack the United States at.....and brings US into the war

• Pearl Harbor

• Battle of Coral Sea

• Battle of Midway

• Long Island

Major US victory in the Pacific, defeated Japan's naval fleet

• Battle of Coral Sea

• Battle of Normandy

• Battle of Stalingrad

• Battle of Midway

Major victory for USSR, forces Germany to surrender in Russia

• Battle of Britain

• Battle of Stalingrad

• Battle of Dunkirk

• Battle of Normandy

Largest land-air-sea attack, Allies stormed the beaches in France to regain occupied France from Germany

• Battle of Dunkirk

• Battle of Normandy

• Battle of Stalingrad

• Battle of Britain

_________ is known as the day the allies liberated France from German occupation

• D-Day

• V-J Day

• V-E Day

• V-F Day

Truman decided to drop the atomic bombs on Japan in order to save more lives than a land invasion of Japan.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which American military leader led the U.S. troops through both the North African campaign and D-Day?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• George Marshall

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Douglas MacArthur

Where was the first atom bomb dropped by the U.S. into Japan?

• Hiroshima

• Nagasaki

• Okinawa

• Tokyo