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The Home Front
100
Name the country that was split into occupation zones after WWII and whose capital, Berlin, was also divided.
What is Germany?
100
This Austrian-born fascist dictator has gone down in history for being a total monster; he is legit the absolute worst!
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
Germany invaded this country on September 1, 1939, officially kicking off the next six years of battle.
What is Poland?
100
Formally known as "government issue" US servicemen were generally referred to as this.
What is a GI?
100
This attack on December 7, 1941, launched the United States into the war.
What is Pearl Harbor?
200
Identify the body of water across which the Allies launched the invasion known as D-Day (Operation Overlord).
What is the English Channel?
200
This cigar-chomping politician led the UK for most of the war and is famous for coining the phrase "the Iron Curtain" after the war.
Who is Winston Churchill?
*He smoked 8-10 Cuban cigars a day!
200
The mass murder of the Jews and others during WWII was given this name. It literally means, "destruction by fire".
What is the Holocaust?
200
The invasion of Normandy was called Operation Overlord, but most of us know it by this alliterative name.
What is D-Day?
200
People whose birthplace or origins were in this country were rounded up and put in internment camps in the United States.
What is Japan?
300
Name the body of water across which the Allies launched the invasion known as D-Day (Operation Overlord)
What is the English Channel?
300
This president led the US during the years leading up to the war as well as during it. He died in Warm Springs Georgia in 1945; Germany surrendered a month later.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
300
Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, Bergen-Belsen and others are known by this more common term.
What is a concentration camp?
300
This iconic vehicle was mass-produced for the war and is still popular on the streets today.
What is the jeep?
300
This icon symbolized the importance of women keeping America economically afloat. Her slogan was, "We Can Do It!"
Who is Rosie the Riveter? 
400
This island chain, important for reaching Japan, was captured by US forces after intense battles including Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima? (Name the general region)
What is the Solomon Islands? Also acceptable: the Marianas. Also acceptable: the Pacific Theater.
400
This man is not a pasta; he was the fascist leader of Italy until he was executed in April of 1945.
Who was Benito Mussolini?
400
Known as code talkers, these people used their languages to create unbreakable code that helped win the war.
Who are Native Americans?
400
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on this city.
What is Hiroshima, Japan.
400
These special booklets were required to purchase limited goods such as sugar, gasoline, and butter.
What are ration books?
500
Name the strategic sea route that links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and was vital for supply lines to British colonies (and was contested during WWII).
What is the Suez Canal?
500
Known for causing terrible famine, economic brutality, and instituting terror among his people, this ruthless communist dictator of Russia killed almost as many people as Hitler.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
500
Allied codebreakers spent years trying to break the German encryption on this machine.
What is enigma?
500
This battle in 1942 was considered the turning point in the war in the Pacific theater.
What is the Battle of Midway?
500
To allow more food to be shipped to troops, people were encouraged to plant and grow these at home.
What are victory gardens?