He was the inspirational leader who served as British prime minister for much of World War II.
Who is Winston Churchill?
100
This word, which means "lightning war," describes the new aggressive techniques used by the German military at the outset of World War II.
What is "blitzkrieg?"
100
This is the policy of trying to keep the peace by accepting some of the demands of an aggressor.
What is appeasement?
100
This was the African country that was invaded and conquered by Italy in 1935.
What is Ethiopia?
100
These were the laws passed in the United States in the 1930’s forbidding the country from becoming involved in future wars.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
200
He was the British prime minister who thought he had saved Europe from another war when he brokered an agreement with Adolf Hitler at the Munich Conference in 1938.
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
200
This was the name for the German air force.
What is "Luftwaffe?"
200
This was the term for the period in the spring of 1940 when Germany was at war with France and Britain, but little actual fighting occurred.
What is the Phony War?
200
This was the conflict that took place on the Iberian Peninsula in the 1930's that served as a testing ground for new German weapons and tactics that would later be used in World War II.
What is the Spanish Civil War?
200
1939 agreement between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin pledging their nations would not go to war with each other
What is the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact?
300
During World War II, he was the exiled leader of the Free French government, which was based in London.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
300
This was the term for the regular German army.
What is "Wehrmacht?"
300
This is a person who, during wartime, helps their country’s enemies.
What is a collaborator?
300
The German invasion of this country on September 1, 1939 signalled the beginning of World War II.
What is Poland?
300
This was the name of the World War II French collaborationist government named after the city where it was located.
What is the Vichy Government?
400
He was the leader of the nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War who eventually became dictator of Spain.
Who is Francisco Franco?
400
This is the word for "joining" that referred to the annexation of Austria in 1938.
What is "Anschluss?"
400
This was the term for the strip of land that, following World War I, separated East Prussia from the rest of Germany.
What is the Polish Corridor?
400
This was the place in France where the trapped British army was saved by civilian and commercial boats that made trips across the English Channel to evacuate more than 300,000 soldiers
What is Dunkirk?
400
This was the law passed in 1941 authorizing the United States to give war materials to Britain.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
500
He was the French World War I hero who, during World War II, orchestrated his country's surrender and then led the French government that cooperated with the Germans.
Who is Philippe Petain?
500
This was the name of the disputed area of Czechoslovakia that was home to a large group of ethnic Germans.
What is the Sudetenland?
500
This was the term for the communist ideologues who came from other countries, including the United States, to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
What are the International Brigades?
500
This is the graphic term for the Japanese attack on the Chinese capital city from 1937-38 that resulted in the horrific torture and murder of half of the city’s 600,000 inhabitants.
What is the Rape of Nanking?
500
This was the ill-conceived 1928 international agreement that sought to make war “illegal”