This general came out of retirement to head the American and Filipino land forces against Japan and made the proclamation "I shall return" after being defeated in the Philippines.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
100
Hitler hesitated to release troops to help defend against this as he believed that it was a diversion and that the location was still going to be to the north.
What was the Allied Invasion of France (D-Day)?
100
The surprise attack on December 7,1941 by the Japanese at this location forced the United States into war with both Japan and Germany.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
The end of the war came with the dropping of the atomic bombs in these two Japanese cities on August 6th and 9th of 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
100
To ease Americans fears of the possibility of nuclear war, the U.S. government produced this film featuring a cartoon turtle, a cheerful theme song, and instructions on what to in case of an attack.
What is Duck and Cover?
200
He became the President of the United States after Franklin Roosevelt died in office in April of 1945 and oversaw the ending of the war.
Who was Harry Truman?
200
This was the last major offensive push of the Germans and was the largest battle fought on the Western Front in World War II.
What is The Battle of the Bulge?
200
The Japanese forced captured Allied soldiers in the Philippines on this, which resulted in 7,000 to 10,000 dead before reaching POW camps.
What is the Death March?
200
At his meeting held near Berlin in the summer of 1945, the Allied leaders discussed post-war Germany and the call for Japan's unconditional surrender.
What was the Potsdam Conference?
200
The Allied powers organized this event that lasted 231 in response to Stalin blocking the flow of essential supplies to West Berlin.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
300
He succeeded Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of Great Britain during the summer of 1945.
Who was Clement Attlee?
300
This meeting in February 1945 between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin was designed to finalize plans for the final offensive against Germany, the post-war occupation of Germany, and military operations in the Pacific.
What is the Yalta Conference?
300
This restriction of sales of certain materials by the U.S. to Japan in 1940 was a key factor in Japan's decision to bomb the U.S. Navy base in Hawaii.
What is oil embargo?
300
This eccentric but brilliant physicist provided leadership to other civilian scientists during the Manhattan project and the development of the atomic bomb.
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?
300
In 1948, the U.S. Congress approved this program that pledged to pay $17 million over a four year period to help the economic recovery of Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
He broke the tie of the Imperial Cabinet after the atomic bombs were dropped which lead to Japan surrendering and the official end of World War II.
Who was Emperor Hirohito?
400
This two stage operation designed by British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery attempted to break through the German lines and move the British Army across the Rhine River into Germany.
What was Operation Market-Garden?
400
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed this document that ordered all Japanese Americans living on the west coast be relocated and forced into internment camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?
400
This was the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
What is the Enola Gay?
400
Allied governments established the first international criminal trials to prosecute high level political officials and military leaders that committed war crimes in these two cities.
What are Nuremberg, Germany and Tokyo, Japan?
500
He lead the Allied invasion of France on D-Day and would go onto become President of the United States shortly after the war.
What was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
500
This date, known as VE Day, marked the end of the War in Europe.
What is May 8, 1945?
500
This final bloody battle lasted 82 days that saw high casualties on both sides was a key factor in President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan.
What is the Battle of Okinawa?
500
The end of World War II fell on this date with the official Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Harbor.
What is September 2, 1945?
500
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill coined this term that referred to the separation of "free" democratic nations in West Europe from the "captive" Communist nations in the East.