WWII Vocab Quiz

Attack by Japan on December 7, 1941 on a naval base in Hawaii; led to the US joining World War 2

• Pearl Harbor

• VE Day

• VJ Day

• Hiroshima

largest sea invasion i history, led by US General Eisenhower; ultimately pushed the Germans out of France

• D Day

• VJ Day

• VE Day

• Pearl Harbor

horrible time when millions of Jews were killed by Hitler's Nazis

• Holocaust

• D Day

• Pearl Harbor

• VJ Day

day that American and Europeans celebrated Germany's surrender

• VE Day

• VJ Day

• Holocaust

• Pearl Harbor

Pacific Island where the Japanese put up a fierce battle but eventually lost to US Marines, part of island-hopping military campaign to get US troops closer to Japan

• Iwo Jima

• Nagaskai

• Hiroshima

• Pearl Harbor

Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped

• Hiroshima

• Nagaskia

• Iwo Jima

• Pearl Harbor

Japanese city where the second atomic bomb was dropped

• Hiroshima

• Nagasaki

• Iwo Jima

• Pearl Harbor

day when the Japanese finally surrendered

• VJ Day

• VE Day

• D Day

• Iwo Jima

Us president during most of WWII; he died in office in 1945

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• Winston Churchill

• Eleanor Roosevelt

dictator of the Soviet Union

• Joseph Stalin

• Adolf Hitler

• Hirohito

• Benito Mussolini