Luftwaffe

The 2 most famous British airplanes used during the Battle of Britain were ...

A fight between airplanes

Identify the advantages that British pilots had during the Battle of Britain. Choose 2.

How were the British able to stay aware of German air raids before they reached the home island of Great Britain?

What was the average age of those men who volunteered to join the RAF?

There were American pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain.

The Battle of Britain was fought between the ___________ and the ___________.

Which side won the Battle of Britain?

What does RAF stand for?

Which country created an invasion plan called Operation Barbarossa?

Operation Barbarossa was the German plan to invade which country?

Which of these was most responsible for slowing down the Wermacht (German military) near the end of Barbarossa?

Why was Joseph Stalin so surprised by Hitler's attack?

Germany's plan to invade Britain was called what?

What did Hitler and Stalin promise to each other with their nonaggression pact?

In his book Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote about removing all Jews from Germany, and what else?

Which word best describes what the German army did to its supplies during the first few months of Operation Barbarossa?

What did thousands of German troops suffer from during the cold Russian winter of 1941-42?

True or False. The German army never captured Moscow, the Soviet capital, during Operation Barbarossa.

What were the Soviets able to do during the winter of 1941-1942 that helped stop the Germans from conquering even more Soviet territory?

The battleship USS ___ was sunk during the attack and is a memorial today at Pearl Harbor.

The Japanese hoped to find which type of ship at Pearl Harbor?

Which important type of ship was NOT destroyed by the Japanese in the attack on Pearl Harbor because there weren't any there? 

True or False: The Japanese really wanted to destroy American aircraft carriers in Pearl Harbor when they attacked.

What was the name of the section of Pearl Harbor where the battleships were anchored?

This natural resource was very important to Japan, but the US stopped sending any to them.

When was "D-Day?"

Which of the names below WAS NOT one of the 5 "beaches" soldiers landed at during D-Day?

In which country did the "D-Day" landings take place?

Choose the two beaches that American soldiers landed at during D-Day.

Where in France did the D-Day landings take place?

Which D-Day beach was given the nickname "bloody?"

What are soldiers who drop from planes wearing parachutes called?

Name this man. Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces who was elected President of the US twice after the war. Also planner of D-day.

What was the "Doolittle Raid" that took place on April 18, 1942?

What weapon did the Manhattan Project create?

Who is know as the "father of the atomic bomb?"

Who became President after President Franklin Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945

When did Germany surrender ending the war in Europe?

What was the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945?

What was the nickname of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

What was the nickname of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki?

What was the nickname of the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki?

When did Japan surrender ending World War 2?