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The nickname for the leaders of the most powerful Allied countries: Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt.
Who are the Big Three?
Adolph Hitler came to power in this country.
What is Germany?
The day of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is December 7, 1941?
This was the mass slaughter by the Nazis of Europe’s Jewish population, and other people the Nazis considered “inferior.”
What was the Holocaust?
The belief that Christian should apply their faith to social action by working to solve the problems of the modern industrial society.
What is the Social Gospel?
These people wrote coded messages based on their native language. The Japanese were never able to crack the code.
Who are the Navajo Code Talkers?
Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Britain, Russia
What are countries invaded by Germany during WW2?
The date that Allied troops liberated Paris from the Nazis.
What is August 25, 1944.
Suicide attacks by Japanese pilots who would deliberately crash their bomb-filled planes into American vessels.
What are Kamikazes?
The discovery of the Zimmerman Telegram and Germany resuming U-boat attacks on commercial and passenger ships.
What drew the US into WW1?
He led a mission in Africa to aid British soldiers and then inched his way up the Italian Peninsula.
Who is General George Patton?
A US Naval base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Also the site of a surprise attack in in 1941j by the Imperial Japanese Navy.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Another name for June 6, 1944 - the day that the Allies planned to move a huge force across the English Channel and attack the Nazis.
After the battle of Midway, the United States pursued this strategy that moved them closer to Japan by taking one island at a time.
What is Island Hopping?
The belief that Americans needed to understand that no one could get out of this mess on his own was the only plan that this president had to end the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
He commanded American and Filipino forces in the Pacific eventually liberating the Philippines from the Japanese.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
Japan’s navy intended to strike this island, a stepping stone to attacking Hawaii. The Americans caught the Japanese by surprise and won the battle.
What is Midway?
Another name for May 7, 1945 - the day that Germany surrendered.
What is V-E Day?
This is the code-name of a top-secret research program to develop an atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
One of many women who were prominent in promoting women's suffrage. (Several correct answers)
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
Who is Alice Paul?
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This US President made the decision to drop the atomic bomb.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The Japanese took control of this area in the Philippines and forced 70,000 American and Filipino prisoners on what later was called a death march.
What is the Bataan Peninsula?
Another name for August 14, 1945 - the day that Japan surrendered.
What is V-J Day?
This Established a War Relocation Authority which caused 100,000 Japanese-Americans to be detained. They lost their homes, farms, and stores.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The US Senate believed that joining this organization would be an infringement on American sovereignty.
What is the League of Nations?