People
Battles
Terms and Names
Vocabulary
Hodgepodge
100
Leader of Fascist Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
100
Key battle in which the Germans were defeated by the Soviet Union.
What is Stalingrad?
100
This term means "lightning war" and was a surprise attack by air, followed by heavy infantry invasion.
What is blitzkrieg?
100
Policy of granting concessions to an aggressor to keep the peace.
What is appeasement?
100
WWII began with the invasion of this nation September 1, 1939.
What is Poland?
200
He ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Who is Harry Truman?
200
The turning point of the war in the Pacific.
What is Battle of Midway?
200
The Allied Powers included these four nations.
What are Britain, France, Soviet Union and US?
200
This was the US policy towards the war in its early years.
What is isolationism?
200
200 Germans and Austrians were tried and found guilty of war crimes.
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
300
Supreme Commander of all Allied forces in Europe who led the D-day invasion.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
This was the last German military offensive of the war.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
300
This was the name of the puppet government set up in southern France.
What is the Vichy?
300
The term for the Allied strategy in the Pacific designed to defeat Japan.
What is island hopping?
300
He led the Spanish Civil War aided by Germany and Italy.
Who is Francisco Franco?
400
This French general set up a government in exile after Germany defeated France.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
400
The German Luftwaffe bombed London and other targets nightly for months during this battle.
What is the Battle of Britain?
400
With this agreement, Hitler promised to stop his aggression in return for the Sudetenland.
What is the Munich Pact?
400
Japanese suicide pilots.
What are kamikazes?
400
May (8th), 1945
What month and year was V-E Day?
500
German general who led Axis Powers in North Africa.
Who is Erwin Rommel?
500
After the Japanese took the Philippines, this event occurred which resulted in the death of up to 10,000 prisoners.
What is the Bataan Death March?
500
Name of the top secret operation to build the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
500
Systematic murder of an entire population.
What is genocide?
500
A mass rescue of Allied troops after Germany invaded France.
What is the rescue at Dunkirk?
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