Causes of WWII
Participants of World War II
Early years and US enters the war
War in Pacific
War in Europe
100
Name the treaty that ended WWI and led to WWII.
What is Treaty of Versaille
100
What is the name of the leader of Germany?
What is Adolf Hitler?
100
What country was invaded by Germany that led to the outbreak of war?
What is Poland?
100
What battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific when the US sank 4 Japanese carriers?
What is Battle of Midway?
100
What was the bloodiest battle in the history of warfare and the one that turned the tide of war in the Eastern Europe theater?
What is Stalingrad?
200
What was the economic downturn that occurred during this time?
What is the Great Depression?
200
What three countries made up the Axis powers?
What is Germany, Italy, and Japan?
200
What country did Germany march through to invade France?
What is Belgium?
200
What was the policy the US used in the Pacific to work our way towards Japan?
What is island hopping?
200
What battle was planned in the hopes of opening up a second front in Western Europe?
What is D-Day?
300
What is the name of the system where the government has total control over the lives of the people?
What is totalitarianism?
300
What countries made up the Allies?
What is USSR, US, Britain, and France?
300
What two countries signed the Non-Aggression Pact in 1939, and why?
What is USSR and Germany so that Germany could avoid a two front war?
300
What is a kamikaze?
What is a suicide pilot for Japan?
300
What was the name of the general that planned D-Day?
What is Dwight Eisenhower?
400
To avoid going to war France and England used this method with Germany.
What is appeasement?
400
What was the name of the US president at the start and end of the war?
What is FDR and Harry S Truman?
400
What attack did Yamamoto plan to knock the United States out of the war?
What is Pearl Harbor?
400
What was the Manhattan Project working to develop and where did we drop it?
What is an atomic bomb and on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
400
What was the final offensive by Hitler called in the hopes of breaking Allied lines?
What is Battle of the Bulge?
500
What was the US policy involving European affairs after WWI, and what peace organization did we refuse to participate in?
What is isolationism and the League of Nations?
500
Name three totalitarian leaders during this time.
What is Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, and Stalin?
500
What act was passed by FDR to attempt to help England during the Battle of Britain, by providing them with weapons?
What is the Lend Lease Act?
500
What was the name of the Native Americans that helped create a code for radio transmissions that the Japanese were never able to break?
What is Navajo Code Talkers?
500
What system was the Final Solution a part of and who were the targets?
What is the Holocaust and anyone thought to be undesirable, Jews, gays, Jehovah Witnesses, mentally impaired, deformed, and gypsy.
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