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100
Reason Great Britain and France declared war on Germany
What is: Germany invaded Poland?
100
Germany was forced to retreat from the Soviet Union after this battle
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
100
Describe what Executive Order #9066 did
What is: it forced many Japanese Americans to move to internment camps
100
Name of the places where Jews and others were imprisoned and murdered
What are concentration camps?
100
The technology in which radio beams were used to determine the locations of objects
What is radar?
200
Event that caused the United States to enter World War II
What is: Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
200
The deadliest battle ever fought by the US Army
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
200
Place where the first African American fighter pilots began training (*hint: it is a city, state and the group of men was named after the city)
What is: Tuskegee, Alabama (the Tuskegee Airmen)
200
About this many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust
What is 6 million?
200
The line of latitude that runs horizontal around the middle of the world at 0 degrees
What is the Equator?
300
Which event happened FIRST: A. Allied forces led an invasion in Normandy, France. B. George S. Patton led the Allies to victory at the Battle of the Bulge. C. The Allies defeated Axis forces in North Africa and Italy
What is: C. The Allies defeated Axis forces in North Africa and Italy?
300
Japan's navy became took weak to continue capturing islands in the Pacific after this battle
What is the Battle of Midway?
300
The group of people who could be pilots, factory workers, and mechanics, but NOT soldiers
What is women?
300
Reason the rise of dictators caused concern in the 1930s
What is: Dictators often planned to attack and conquer other countries?
300
Name of the effort by the United States to build an atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
400
Which event happened SECOND: A. Allied forces led an invasion in Normandy, France. B. George S. Patton led the Allies to victory at the Battle of the Bulge. C. The Allies defeated Axis forces in North Africa and Italy
What is A. Allied forces led an invasion in Normandy, France?
400
Place where the largest sea invasion in world history took place
What is Normandy, France?
400
Describe the effect of WWII on the United States economy
What is: many factories had to expand to produce military equipment?
400
The three countries that formed the Axis Powers
What are: Germany, Italy and Japan
400
Japan was forced to surrender because of the use of this weapon
What is the atomic bomb?
500
Which event happened LAST: A. Allied forces led an invasion in Normandy, France. B. George S. Patton led the Allies to victory at the Battle of the Bulge. C. The Allies defeated Axis forces in North Africa and Italy
What is B. George S. Patton led the Allies to victory at the Battle of the Bulge?
500
The atomic bomb was dropped after this battle in the Pacific
What is the Battle of Iwo Jima?
500
Describe how World War II changed life for many women and African Americans.
What is: they were given new job opportunities they did not have before
500
Name the three major dictators of the Axis Powers (Japan, Germany and Italy)
Who are: Hitler, Mussolini & Tojo?
500
Tell why President Truman decided to use the atomic bomb.
What is: to force Japan to surrender and avoid an unnecessary invasion (save American lives)?
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