What date was D-day on?
June 6, 1944
What countries were involved in D-day?
United Kingdom, Canada, and the US. Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Poland.
What country saved the most Jews in Europe?
Denmark
How does an Atom Bomb work? (give one of the ways)
Nuclear fission produces the atomic bomb, a weapon of mass destruction that uses power released by the splitting of atomic nuclei. Nuclear fusion is a reaction
What was Operation Market Garden?
Operation Market Garden was the largest airborne operation of the war, with three divisions parachuting on September 17 near Eindhoven, Arnhem, and Nijmegen. Pa
Where did D-day take place?
Five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region.
What happened to Mussolini when he was captured?
He was shot, left in a public square to beat, hung up by feet in the square
Who was the Supreme Commander of all the Allied forces in Europe?
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
What was the Operation called on D-day?
Operation Overlord
What were the American Beaches in D-day called?
Utah, Omaha
Name 5 types of Resistance.
non-cooperation, disinformation, and propaganda, to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns Non-violent, armed, espionag
What was the Kinder Transport?
What was the Kinder Transport?
Name 4 Japanese battles.
Doolittle Raid ‘42, Battle of Midway ‘42, Battle of Tarawa (Marshall Island campaign) ‘43, Philipeans Campaign ‘44-45, Battle of Iwo Jima ‘45, Battle of Okanow
What was the Kristallnacht? And what country did it happen in?
Nov 9-10 1938 Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. -Night of Broken Glass
What ships did the Japanese bomb in Pearl Harbor?
USS Arizona, Oklahoma, West Virginia, California, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Maryland
