People
African Americans were still affected by this practice in the army during WWII
What is segregation?
The first atomic bomb was dropped on this city.
What is Hiroshima?
The form of government in which a dictator rules the people
What is fascism?
The American strategy in the Pacific to get to Japan
What is island hopping/leapfrogging?
The date of the Pearl Harbor Attack
What is December 7th, 1941?
US Commander in the Pacific during WWII
Who was General Douglas MacArthur?
A 350-mile barricade that Hitler crossed to take Paris
What is the Maginot Line?
A horrific event driven by Anti-Semitism
What was the Holocaust?
This allowed Americans to start loaning weapons to Great Britain before entering the war.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
The date Germany invaded Poland, starting WWII
What is September 1st, 1939?
Hitler's fascist model
Who was Benito Mussolini?
This is where Hitler invaded in Operation Barbarossa
What is Russia?
Hitler's strategy to attack the enemy rapidly with bombs and rockets
What was Blitzkrieg?
The strategy of the US and League of Nations in response to the initial rise of Fascism in Europe
What is appeasement?
D-Day
What is June 6th, 1944?
The two US presidents during WWII, full names and in order
Who are Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman?
The state directly below Nebraska
What is Kansas?
The Axis Powers (leaders and their countries)
Who were Adolf Hitler of Germany, Benito Mussolini of Italy, and Hideki Tojo of Japan?
The Big Three (leaders and their countries)
Who were Winston Churchill of England/UK, Josef Stalin of Russia, and FDR of the US?
The date the first bomb was dropped on Japan.
What is August 6th, 1945?
The person who wrote a letter to FDR in 1939 to warn him that Germany could be developing nuclear weapons and encouraged him to start a nuclear research program
Who was Albert Einstein?
The place where the famous photograph of US Marines hoisting a US flag was staged
What is Iwo Jima?
Germany's desperation and bitterness came largely from this settlement from the end of WWI (include the date).
What is the Treaty of Versailles 1919?
The names of the two atomic bombs
What are Little Boy and Fat Man?
V-E Day and V-J Day
What is May 8th, 1945, and September 2nd, 1945?