WWII Matching Activity

Match the following

• Atomic Bomb

• Secret US Project to develop atomic bombs for WWII

• Harry Truman

• President after FDR died; authorized use of Atomic Bombs

• V-E Day

• Icon representing women that built things during WWII

• Rosie the Riviter

• Nuclear weapon where enormous energy is released

• Manhatten Project

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

Match the following

• V-J Day

• Communist Dictaror of the Soviet Union

• Axis

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

• Blitzkrieg

• German word that means Lightning War

• D-Day

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

• Joseph Stalin

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

Match the following

• Benito Mussolini

• A member of Hitler's Political Party

• Nazi

• Italian Fascist Dictator

• JR Oppenheimer

• Japanese Prime Minister (Dictator) & leader of their military

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• US Scientist that directed creation of 1st atomic bomb

• Hideki Tojo

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

Match the following

• Enola Gay

• Britain, France, Russian, United States

• Dictator

• German Nazi dictator during WWII

• Allies

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

• Adolf Hitler

• American plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

• World War II

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

Put the following in the Timeline order that they happened.

• later in 1940

• D-Day

• 1939

• Hitler invaded Poland

• 1940

• Battle of Britain

• 1943

• Soft Underbelly of the Axis (Italy) defeated by Allies

• 1944

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

Match the following

• April - May 1945

• Battle of Berlin

• Ded. 1944 to Jan. 1945

• U.S. dropped 2 Atomic Bombs on Japan

• Island Hopping

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

• August 1945

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

• Big 3 Conferences

• Battle of the Bulge

Match the following

• December 1941

• D-Day Invasion

• June 1941

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

• June 1944

• Hitler invaded the USSR in Operation Barbarossa.

• 1942-1943

• Hitler invaded Poland and WWII begins.

• 1939

• Battle of Stalingrad