Major Events of WW1
Whose assassination led to the start of World War 1?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What country did Germany invade to begin World War 2?
Poland.
Normandy.
What event took place that led to The USA joining World War 2?
What were the places where millions of Jewish people and others were imprisoned and killed by the Nazis?
Concentration Camps.
What country withdrew from WW1 due to their own ongoing revolution?
Russia.
Germany could not have troops in the Rhineland because the Treaty of Versailles made it a ____________________ zone.
Demilitarized.
Where in Japan did the U.S. drop atomic bombs on August 1945?
Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
Who was President of the United States during World War 2?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
What were Jewish people were forced to wear on their clothing during the Holocaust?
Yellow Star of David.
What were American drafted soldiers called?
Doughboys.
After WW1, The Treaty of Versailles prohibited the German military from having what two things?
Submarines & Airplanes.
What three countries were the main members of the Axis Powers?
What future United States President was named the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces?
Kristallnacht is also the Night of what?
Broken Glass.
What type of gas was first used in World War I and could burn skin and lungs?
Mustard Gas.
Sudetenland was a part of what country before it was annexed by Germany?
Czechoslovakia.
What year did WW2 end?
1945.
The U.S. developed the atomic bomb during what secret wartime project?
The Manhattan Project.
South America.
What group was formed after the war to try to keep world peace (but the U.S. didn’t join)?
League of Nations.
What was the name of the Prime Minister of England before Winston Churchill?
Neville Chamberlain.
What was one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, fought in the Soviet Union, that became a major turning point by stopping the German advance in the east?
The Battle of Stalingrad.
Prior to joining the war, The USA provided aid to Allied Countries through what?
The Lend-Lease Act.
What set of laws restricted and persecuted the Jewish people in Germany?
The Nuremberg Laws.