Unit Five > Chapter 31
1. What bill empowered Roosevelt to send aid to Britain?
2. What country did Japan occupy in July 1941?
3. What did the USA do in response to this move by Japan?
4. Who became prime minister of Japan in October 1941?
5. What was the German code name for the invasion of the USSR?
6. How many German army groups were involved in the attack on the USSR?
7. What was the only strategy available to the Soviets in the early part of the campaign?
8. Name the Russian general who launched a counterattack at Moscow.
9. Where did Japan launch its preemptive strike against the USA?
10. What 3 areas did Japan attack next?
11. Which was the first to fall?
12. What great base did Britain then lose?
13. From which country were the Americans driven by the Japanese?
14. What did the Japanese call their new empire in Asia?
15. What is meant by the phrase "a second front" in the context of WWII?
16. What was the objective of Operation Torch?
17. At which battle did Montgomery beat Rommell?
18. What decision of Hitler's contributed to the German defeat at Stalingrad?
19. What was the main decision taken at the Casablanca Conference?
20. What event prompted the deposition of Mussolini?
21. Who led the Yugoslav partisans in the fight against the Germans?
22. What was the greatest tank battle of the war?
23. Why, at the Teheran Conference, did Churchill propose his Mediterranean strategy ?
24. What else was agreed to at Teheran?
25. What was the largest naval battle of all time, and who won?
26. Name the Chinese leader who betrayed the trust placed in him by Roosevelt.
27. What was Operation Overlord?
28. What did von Stauffenberg try, and fail, to do?
29. Who declared himself president of France after liberating Paris?
30. Name the terror weapons launched by Hitler against Britain.
Links
Simulation of the North African campaign.
A CBC site with archival clips on the internment of Japanese Canadians.