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WWII Matching Activity

Authored by Cheryl Meyer

History

9th Grade

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WWII Matching Activity
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1.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

V-E Day

Secret US Project to develop atomic bombs for WWII

Harry Truman

President after FDR died; authorized use of Atomic Bombs

Rosie the Riviter

Nuclear weapon where enormous energy is released

Manhatten Project

The day war ended in Europe (May 8, 1945)

Atomic Bomb

Icon representing women that built things during WWII

2.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

Blitzkrieg

German word that means Lightning War

Axis

The alliance between Japan, Italy, and Germany (JIG)

V-J Day

First day of the Allied Invasion of Normandy (in France) (6644)

D-Day

Day of Formal Surrender of the Japanese to the Allies (9-2-45)

Joseph Stalin

Communist Dictaror of the Soviet Union

3.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

Nazi

US General in charge of D- Day; 34th president of the U.S.of

Dwight D. Eisenhower

US Scientist that directed creation of 1st atomic bomb

Hideki Tojo

Japanese Prime Minister (Dictator) & leader of their military

JR Oppenheimer

A member of Hitler's Political Party

Benito Mussolini

Italian Fascist Dictator

4.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

World War II

American plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Adolf Hitler

Britain, France, Russian, United States

Dictator

Ruler who is unconstrained by law (does what he wants)

Allies

UK, USSR, France, US, China & others defeated Germany, Italy, & Japan

Enola Gay

German Nazi dictator during WWII

5.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Put the following in the Timeline order that they happened.

1944

Soft Underbelly of the Axis (Italy) defeated by Allies

1939

Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, & France defeated by Germany

1940

Battle of Britain

1943

Hitler invaded Poland

later in 1940

D-Day

6.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

Ded. 1944 to Jan. 1945

Battle of the Bulge

August 1945

U.S. Strategy to skip certain Pacific Islands if NOT heavily fortified to get to Japan faster

April - May 1945

U.K., U.S., and sometimes U.S.S.R. met to plan end of WWII

Big 3 Conferences

Battle of Berlin

Island Hopping

U.S. dropped 2 Atomic Bombs on Japan

7.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Match the following

1942-1943

Hitler invaded the USSR in Operation Barbarossa.

December 1941

Battle of Stalingrad

June 1944

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and will also attack two other US territories.

1939

D-Day Invasion

June 1941

Hitler invaded Poland and WWII begins.

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