WWII Places
WWII Vocab
WWII Figures
WWII Events
Allies and Enemies
100

Country that was invaded first by Germany

Poland

100

What does blitzkrieg mean?

Fast victory - lightning war

100

Who led the Nazis?

Adolf Hitler

100

This event caused England and France to declare war on Germany

What is the invasion of Poland?
100

These two alliance groups fought during WWII

Axis Power and Allies

200

Country that signed a non-aggression pact with Germany

Soviet Union / Russia

200

What is the mass murder of European Jews in WWII called?

Holocaust/ Genocide oof the jews

200

Who was the fascist dictator of Italy?

Benito Mussolini

200
What was the Allied invasion of France that began on June 6, 1944 called?
D-Day
200
What 3 countries made up the Axis powers?
Italy, Japan and Germany
300

The two Japanese cities that the US nuked

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

300

The laws that took away rights of German Jews previous to the holocaust

The Nuremberg Laws

300
Who was the Prime Minister that led Great Britain through the worst years of WWII?
Winston Churchill
300

What battle did the Soviets defeat Germany?

Stalingrad

300

The most well known four countries that made up the Allies

Great Britain, France, US, Soviet Union

400

Neighborhoods Jews were sent to BEFORE the concentration camps

 What are ghettos

400

The decision to find and kill all of the Jews in countries occupied by the Third Reich

What was Hitler's "final solution?"

400
President of the US during most of WWII

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt

400

Also known as "Night of Broken Glass", this race riot saw hundreds of Jewish businesses and facilities destroyed or damaged. 

Kristallnacht

400

This country changed sides during WWII

What is Italy

500

God-like leader of Japan during WWII

Who is Emperor Hirohito

500

These two countries made a pact to prevent a two front war by trading over half of Poland

Germany and the Soviet Union (Russia)

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