People
Who was General George Patton?
The Japanese naval and air forces attacked the U.S. here in 1941.
Pearl Harbor
President Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on which country after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Japan
Which group of people did Hitler have killed during the Holocaust?
Jews
British prime minister who led in the fight against Hitler
Winston Churchill
Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin were European what?
What is dictators?
Country re-established in 1948 by the Jewish people in the Middle East.
Israel
The air attack on Japan early in the war was called what?
The Doolittle Raid
The fast moving attack against Poland, also means "lightning war"
Blitzkrieg
Which countries were called the Allies?
Great Britain, the United States, Russia, and other countries fighting the Axis powers
Who was the Supreme Commander of the Allies in Europe?
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Which country did Great Britain and France warn Hitler about attacking?
Poland
This event began the Allied liberation of France.
D-Day,
This was the name of the German air force.
What is the Luftwaffe?
Which countries entered a three way alliance against the Allies and were called the Axis powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
General and Prime Minister of Japan who ran the country?
Who was Tojo Hideki?
This tiny island between North America and Asia was the location of a battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
Midway
What did Japan do after President Truman chose to use the atom bomb on them?
They surrendered
A limit on the amount of an item each person can buy.
Ration
Americans who had Japanese parents that had immigrated to the United States
Nisei
Man who led the non-Communist Chinese fighters to defend their country?
Who was Chiang Kai-Shek?
Mao-Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek claimed to be leaders of this country.
What is China?
Why were code breakers important at the battle of Midway?
They helped discover where Japanese ships would be and made American forces aware of the plan to trick them.
Person who does damage to try to hurt war production
Saboteur
This term refers to Stalin's control of many countries that cut Europe in half.
Iron Curtain