Major Battles and Bombings
What person siad that "we will fight on the beaches, land, air.... we will never surrender!"
Winston Churchhill
Along with Jews what other groups were persecuted during the Holocaust?
Gypies (Roma), Communists, Homosexuals, Handicapped people.
What treaty made many Germans made at France and British after losing World War 1?
The Treaty of Versailles
What Pacific Battle is known to have a famous photo of 5 marines lifting up an American Flag?
Battle of Iwo Jima
What person signed the non-agreesion pact with Adolf Hitler in 1938.
Joseph Stalin
What Nov 9th-10th pogrom with in Germany ended with 100's of synigoes burned?
Kristallnacht
What man was giving full power in Germany in 1933 after the Reichstag fire?
What two cities were destroyed by the USA with the atomic bomb on August 6 and August 9th of 1945
Heroshima and Nagasaki
What was the all black fighting regiment called?
Tuskegee Airmen
How many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust?
6 million.
Appeasement
What was the major turning point in the Pacific War. It was Naval Battle where 3 Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk.
What was the group of code breakers that really helped in the Pacific agiainst the Japanese?
Novajo Natives
Who was the cruel dictator of the Soviet Union who changed it into a industrial and military powerhouse?
Joseph Stalin
What is the term "Final Solution"?
Germany's plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe
This general hatred of Jews helped allow Hitler to commit the Holocaust.
Antisemitism
What was the first major land victory over Japan happened August 1942 to Febuary 1943.
Guadalcanal
This miricle happened where 338,000 British and French were saved by 850 british civilains.
Dunkirk
Who was supreme allied commander during D-Day. He would later become the 34th president of the United States.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Why were Jewish people singled out?
They were used as a scapgoat for the lose of World War 1. Antisemitism in general.
What county was invaded to start World War 2?
Poland