Holocaust
What book did Hitler write where he said he wanted to rid Germany of the Jews
What is the Mein Kampf
What was the nickname of the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki?
What is Fat Man
What happened on the morning of December 7, 1941
What is Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Who was the supreme commander of the Allied Forces for the invasion?
What is Dwight D Eisenhower
a violent or sudden change or disruption to something.
What is Upheaval
What was the place in town called where they put the Jewish people?
What is the ghettos
What president made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in World War II?
What is Harry S Truman
How much percentage of oil did the United States use to supply to Japan?
What is 80%
What two beaches did the American troops land at?
What is Utah and Omaha
the state of being superior
What is superiority
What year did Hitler anoint himself as “Fuhrer,”
1934
How many Japanese people died in total from both atomic blasts
What is 210,000
What was the name of the project that broke Japanese diplomatic code
What is magic
What group of soldiers led the first wave of invaders?
What is the Paratroopers
a circumstance that makes progress or success difficult.
What is handicap
What happens in Germany on November 18, 1938
What is Kristallnacht, or the “night of broken glass”
What happened on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico
What is the first nuclear bomb was detonated
What was the name of the General that was handed the decoded Japanese message
Who is George Marshall
How many Allied troops landed on the first day of the invasion?
What is 150,000
never done or known before.
What is unprecedented
What happened in Germany at the beginning of 1953
What is the German government made payments to individual Jews and Jewish people.
What scientist and leader of the atomic bomb research team is considered the father of the atomic bomb?
What is J. Robert Oppenheimer
In attacking Pearl Harbor what did the Japanese hoped for
What is to cripple or destroy the US Pacific fleet so that the Japanese navy would have free reign in the Pacific
What happened less than a year later, on May 7, 1945, after the D-day
What is Germany signed an unconditional surrender and WWII in Europe was over
an evil or wicked act.
What is Infamy