World War 2 Dictators
What type of government did Germany and the USSR create that involved complete control over every aspect of life prior to WWII?
Totalitarian
What territory did Hitler annex before the beginning of WWII? (Hitler's country of birth)
Austria
Who was president at the time America entered WWII?
Franklin Roosevelt
What major naval battle did the Americans win in the Pacific that sunk 4 Japanese aircraft carriers?
Midway
What did Japanese soldiers refuse to do that made them so difficult to defeat?
Surrender
This WWII dictator would lead Germany and serve as the primary cause of the war.
Adolf Hitler
What country did the Nazis invade on September 1, 1939 starting WWII?
Poland
What event forced America into WWII?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
What is the nickname given to the Allied invasion of Normandy, France? (largest amphibious assault in history)
D-Day
What was the name given to the operation to construct the atomic bomb? Who led it?
Manhattan Project -Oppenheimer
This WWII dictator led Russia and signed a non-aggression pact with Germany prior to WWII.
Joseph Stalin
What country built fortifications along its border with Germany in an attempt to prevent invasion?
France
What group was the primary target of the Holocaust?
Jewish People
What was the name given to the German counterattack in the winter of 1944-45?
Battle of the Bulge
New Mexico
Benito Mussolini
What country won a major aerial battle against Germany, preventing German invasion?
Great Britain
What laws defined who was Jewish and laid out discriminatory policies against them?
Nuremberg Laws
Name a Japanese island that the Americans invaded in the Pacific after Midway
What Japanese cities had atomic bombs dropped on them?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This WWII dictator led Japan's military but was not the ultimate authority there.
What country did Hitler attack after the Battle of Berlin, creating a new enemy and opening up Germany to a two-front war?
Russia (USSR)
Approximately how many Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust?
6 Million
How did Hitler die?
Killed himself in his bunker
What US president ordered the nuclear attack?
Harry Truman