Major Battles and Bombings
Allies vs. Axis
Leaders
Holocaust
Causes
100
What was the trigger event for the USA in World War II?
Pearl Harbor December 7,1941
100
Name three of the major Allied powers.
Great Britain, France, Russia, the US, or China
100
Who was the German dictator?
Hitler
100
How did the Germans single out who was Jewish?
They had 3 or less Jewish grandparents, married a Jew, or were from descent of a Jewish family.
100
What was the German excuse for the start of WWII, in their opinion?
The harshness of the Treaty of Versailles
200
What was the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies is WWII?
Battle of the Bulge
200
What were the Axis powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
200
Who was Britain's prime minister?
Winston Churchill
200
When and what was the first concentration camp established?
Dachau in 1933
200
Did the Allies and the normal citizens know about events happening in Europe?
Yes they were put through the press and announced to the public, but as time went on, communication got more and more cut off.
300
What two cities were destroyed by the USA with the atomic bomb on August 6 and August 9th of 1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
300
Out of the Axis powers, who lost the most men?
Germany
300
What later American president led the Allied forces in WWII?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
300
How many were murdered during the Holocaust?

6 million Jews, and 11 million "subhumans" (Slavs (e.g. Russians, Poles, Ukrainians and Serbs), Romanis (gypsies), French, Belgians, Dutch, Greeks, Italians (after 1943), LGBT people , the mentally or physically disabled, mentally ill; Soviet POWs, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox Christians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Buddhists, Muslims, Spanish Republicans, Freemasons,[d] people of color (especially the Afro-German Mischlinge, called "Rhineland Bastards" by Hitler and the Nazi regime); leftists, communists, trade unionists, capitalists, social democrats, socialists, anarchists, and every other minority or dissident not considered Aryan, as well as those who disagreed with the Nazi regime.

300
What two countries might be blamed for ignoring Germany's rise to power?
Britain and France
400
How long did the Bombing of Britain/ The Battle of Britain/ The Blitz last?
 3 1/2 months. From July 10-October 31, 1940
400
Who lost the most men out of the Allies?
USSR (Soviet Union)
400
Which dictator of the Soviet Union changed it into a industrial and military powerhouse?
Joseph Stalin
400
What is the term "Final Solution"?
Germany's plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe
400
What did uniforms, banners, parades and propaganda, public work programs, etc. all do (in Italy and Germany prior to WW2?
Built a sense of extreme nationalism and pride.
500
What battle in WWII is known as D-Day?
The Battle of Normandy
500
What was the major governmental difference between the Allies and Axis?
The Allies were mostly Democratic and the Axis were Facist.
500
What Italian leader was overthrown and jailed, rescued by the Germans in 1945 and later found by partisans, shot and hanged?
Benito Mussolini
500
Why were Jewish people singled out?
They thought the Jews were planning world domination.
500
What sealed Poland's downfall?
The Nazi-Soviet Pact. August 29, 1939
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