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President Franklin D. Roosevelt led the US through the Great Depression & most of WWII. How many terms was he elected to as President of the US?
Four
What type of military vehicles were primarily used by both sides to fight the Battle of Britain?
Aircrafts/ Planes
Besides the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, HI, all of the following US bases were also attacked on December 7 th, 1941, except for: GUAM, the PHILIPPINES, GUANTANAMO BAY, or WAKE ISLAND
Guantanamo Bay
This act gave FDR the ability to aid the Allies with ships, aircraft, and other weapons without, officially, pulling the US into WWII.
Lend-Lease Act
The Allied victory in the Battle of Britain was not only the first defeat for Nazi Germany, but it also left the door open for this, which began on June th 6 , 1944
Normandy Invasion, Operation Overlord or D -Day
When (Day, Month & Year) did Japan attack the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?
December th 7 , 1941
The Atlantic Charter was created at a secret meeting in Newfoundland, Canada between these two Allied leaders in August, 1941.
Winston Churchill & FDR
After a four-month long air battle, the Nazi’s gave up their goal of conquering this country because it could not control the air-space over the channel that separated it from the European mainland.
Great Britain
A swift evacuation of over 338, 000 Allied troops across the English Channel, from here, was aided by over 900 boats of all shapes and sizes over the course of about three days.
Dunkirk
It was after the defeat of this operation that the Axis Powers, in Europe, went on the defensive for the remainder of WWII.
Operation Barbarossa
This can be defined as an official policy of a refusal of one country to trade goods and services with another country.
Embargo
After the Japanese attack on American bases on th December 7 , 1941, Japanese Admiral Yamamoto referred to the US as this due its industrial capacity to mass produce on such a large scale
A Sleeping Giant
Which three Soviet cities did Nazi Germany hope to capture and occupy through Operation Barbarossa?
1) Leningrad 2) Moscow 3) Stalingrad
What FDR used as a metaphor to describe the WEAPONS the US would be giving to the Allies through the Lend-Lease Act.
A Garden-hose
By 1941, the US was ranked nineteenth in the world, militarily; right behind this small European nation that refused to extend the Maginot Line for financial reasons
Belgium
The type of warfare used by Hitler’s forces to quickly subdue the resisting nations of Europe.
Blitzkrieg
The US placed an embargo on oil to Japan after they invaded this French colony, which comprised of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, in 1940
Indochina
What does the term Blitzkrieg translate to in English?
Lightning War
What were two of the three main reasons that Operation Barbarossa failed?
1) The Nazis underestimated the military strength of the Soviet Union 2) The poor roads of the Soviet Union slowed the Nazi Blitzkrieg 3) The vicious & unrelenting Russian Winter
The Japanese attack on the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii resulted in the deaths ___, 403 Americans.
2
Sadly, but also ironically, this US battleship became the first of its kind to ever be sunk by aerial bombers at Pearl Harbor.
The USS Arizona
To bolster their security after WWI, this country installed a string of interlocking forts along its eastern border called the Maginot Line.
France
About how many billion dollars in war materials did the US give Great Britain, China & the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease Act?
About $50 Billion
In bypassing the Maginot Line, Nazi Germany went through this forest region in Belgium on their way to invading France
The Ardennes
What were three main reasons that Hitler decided to invade the Soviet nd Union on June 22 , 1941?
1) Racism 2) Living-Space 3) Natural Resources (Oil & Wheat)
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