Vocabulary
People
Events
Places
Miscellaneous
100
giving in to someone in order to keep peace
What is appeasement?
100
The dictator of Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
100
The event that caused the United States to enter WWII
What is the attack of Pearl Harbor?
100
The three countries that formed the Axis Powers in 1936.
What are Japan, Italy, and Germany?
100
The organization founded after WWII to keep world peace, promote justice, and protect human rights.
What is the United Nations?
200
a lightning attack
What is blitzreig?
200
The dictator of Germany in the 1930's.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
200
The place where the United States dropped the first atomic bomb in August of 1945
What is Hiroshima?
200
The two countries that began the Allies.
What are Great Britain and France?
200
The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to build the world's most powerful weapons.
What is an arms race?
300
A government that puts more importance on its goals than the goals of its people
What is fascism?
300
The dictator of the Soviet Union (Russia)
Who is Joseph Stalin?
300
The event that took place when North Korea invaded South Korea to force them under communist rule.
What is the Korean War?
300
The place were Japanese Americans were held in the western United States during WWII.
What are relocation camps?
300
The general who led the D-Day invasion
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
A war fought with words, ideas, money, and sometimes force
What is cold war?
400
The prime minister of Great Britain in the 1930's.
Who is Winston Churchill?
400
This man started a campaign in 1950s to rid the country of communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
400
The prison where Nazis enslaved and murdered millions of people during WWII.
What are concentration camps?
400
The president who asked Congress to declare war and join World War II
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
500
The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to build the world's most powerful weapons.
What is the arms race?
500
The scientist whose ideas were used to develop the atomic bomb.
Who is Albert Einstein?
500
Great Britain and France declared war on Germany when this happened.
What is the invasion of Poland by Germany?
500
The imaginary line separating Europe's communist and noncommunist countries.
What is the Iron Curtain?
500
The president who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb in 1945
Who is Harry Truman?
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