Important People
Important Dates & Invasions
Key Terms
Major Battles/Operations
The Holocaust
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This person ordered the dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
Harry S. Truman
100
When was Pearl Harbor?
December 7th, 1941
100
What is the code name for the plan to develop the Atomic Bomb?
The Manhattan Project
100
Why was the Battle for the Atlantic so important?
The U.S. could only deliver soldiers and supplies by sea to the Allies.
100
These were originally created for political prisoners, but Jews were brought there and used as slave labor.
Concentration Camps
200
Lead Scientist for the Manhattan Project
J. Robert Oppenheimer
200
When was D-Day?
June 6th, 1944
200
The idea of staying out of the affairs and wars of other nations. Who followed this policy during WWII?
Isolationism- U.S.
200
What battle was the first time the Japanese advance had been stopped?
Battle of Coral Sea
200
Stripped Jews of German citizenship & took away most civil and economic rights.
Nuremberg Laws
300
The Wartime leader of Japan’s government & gave the final approval to attack Pearl Harbor.
Hideki Tojo
300
Hitler invaded this German-Speaking portion of Czechoslovakia known as...
The Sudetenland 
300
Strategy that the United States utilized against Japan in the Pacific- The Allies focused on Japanese weak spots and simply skipped over stronghold.
Island Hopping
300
What was Operation Fortitude?
The plan of deception used by the Allies to make Hitler believe the invasion of France would come at Pas De Calais not Normandy.
300
Hitler’s government policy of systematically murdering those he considered to be “undesirable” is known as?
The Holocaust
400
What German General was known as the "Desert Fox"?
Erwin Rommel
400
Hitler invaded this country on September 1st, 1939 ultimately started WWII
Poland
400
A totalitarian system of government that focuses on the good of the state rather than on the good of the individual citizens; Extreme Nationalism.
Fascism
400
What was Operation Overlord?
The code name for the Allied invasion of mainland Europe in World War II, starting with the D-Day landings.
400
Set international precedent that nations and leaders will be responsible for their actions during war
Nuremberg Trials
500
What German General was responsible for carrying out the final solution plan during the Holocaust?
Heinrich Himmler
500
What are V-E Day & V-J Day? When were they?
Victory in Europe Day: May 8th, 1945

Victory in Japan Day: August 15th, 1945

500
What major decision was made at the Yalta Conference regarding Germany?
It was decided that Germany would be divided into 4 sectors and each Allied power would occupy a sector. Berlin was also to be divided similarly.
500
What battle was won because the Allies cracked the German code “Enigma.”
Battle of the Atlantic
500
What does Kristallnacht mean? What happened?
Means: "Night of Broken Glass" and an event that occurred on the nights of November 9 and 10 in which Hitler's Nazis encouraged Germans to riot against Jews, nearly 100 Jews died, and many businesses and Synagogues were destroyed.
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