Hitler / Germany
World War II officially begins on September 1, 1939.
What is Germany invading Poland?
Former Journalist who became Fascist dictator of Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
USA's strategy of staying out of WWII.
What is isolationism?
German Air Force.
What is the Luftwaffe?
Neville Chamberlain's strategy of giving in to Hitler's territory expansion at the beginning of WWII.
What is appeasement?
Hitler claimed to need more living room or space for Germans.
What is lebensraum?
Prime Minister of Japan.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
USA's reason for territorial expansion from coast to coast in the 1800's.
What is Manifest Destiny?
British Air Force.
What is the RAF?
'The Desert Fox' German general & tank commander that led Germany's Afrika Korps.
Who is Erwin Rommel?
Hitler's book written in 1925 with plans for a Fascist Germany.
What is Mein Kampf?
Communist dictator of the Soviet Union.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
"A date that will live in infamy" when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
What is December 7, 1941?
German 'Lightening Warfare' of concentrated attacks using Luftwaffe bombers, artillery, tanks & soldiers.
What is blitzkrieg?
Location in northern France where over 300,000 British & French troops were nearly pushed into the English channel & were rescued by thousands of British boats.
Where is Dunkirk?
Extreme right totalitarian ultra-nationalism led by a dictator of forced suppression.
What is fascism?
President of the United States during most of WWII.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
American 5 star general who commanded the southwest Pacific theater of WWII.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
Germany, Italy, Japan.
Who were the Axis powers?
66 mile march of 60,000 to 80,000 American & Filipino prisoners of war conducted by the Japanese of which thousands of prisoners died.
What is the Bataan Death March?
Hitler's Fascism.
What is Nazism?
Prime Minister of England that replaced Neville Chamberlain.
Who is Winston Churchill?
'Old Blood and Guts'. The most aggressive American general and tank commander of WWII.
Who is George S. Patton?
Great Britain, France, USSR, USA.
Who were the Allies?
The turning point of the war in the Pacific when U.S. forces sunk 4 Japanese aircraft carriers.
What is the battle of Midway?