European Theater
The first priority of Winston Churchill and FDR was to defeat this group.
Who are the Germans?
600 Americans and thousands of Filipinos died on this tragic defeat.
What is the Bataan Death March?
A name given to the systematic deportation and extermination of the Jewish people during WWII.
What is the Holocaust?
He became president when FDR died of stroke.
Who is Harry Truman?
He was forced to retreat from the Philippines.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
These two countries declared war on Germany after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.
Who are Britain and France?
All of the following were part of the Allied forces: United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union & _____________ (in the Pacific Theater).
Who is China?
What is genocide?
The Japanese attacked this location in order to cripple the U.S. Navy before it could stop it from invading other parts of Asia.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Executive Order # 9066 called for the forced _______________ of Japanese Americans.
What is internment?
Who is Mussolini?
This was the largest naval battle in history.
What is the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
Located in Poland, this ghetto was famous for being overcrowded, with terrible conditions and the only ghetto where the Jews tried to revolt.
What was the Warsaw Ghetto?
What was the Selective Training & Service Act of 1940?
Tactic of purposely crashing planes into enemy ships.
What is Kamikaze?
A counter attack made by the Germans after the successful invasion of Europe by the Allies.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
A pre-war policy that allowed the United States to aid any nation vital to its defense.
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
Hitler blamed these groups of people for all of Germany's economic problems and its defeat in WWI.
Who are Communists, intellectuals & Jews?
This former Tuskegee Airman became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force.
Who is Benjamin O. Davis?
This man organized a march on Washington D.C. to demand equal pay for African American workers.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
Battle in the Soviet Union where German forces were victims of starvation and frost bite.
What is Stalingrad?
President Harry Truman ordered the use of this weapon in the Pacific theater.
What was the Atomic Bomb?
This was used by the Germans to demonize Jews and turn the German people against their Jewish friends and neighbors.
What is propaganda?
After WWII America had escaped much of the destruction of the war and was the strongest nation in the World; therefore, it took on the responsibility of postwar _____________________.
What is rebuilding?
Avoiding war with hostile countries by giving in to their demands.
What is Appeasement?