Important Terms
The German word for "lightning war."
What is blitzkrieg?
The President of the United States during most of World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The approximate number of Jews that were killed by the German Holocaust in World War II.
What is 6 million?
The date when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and brought the U.S. into WW II.
What is December 7th, 1941?
United States.
What is Allies?
Japanese suicide missions where the pilots of airplanes would dive bomb their planes into American ships.
What are kamikazes?
The Nazi leader of Germany during WW II.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
The date the first atomic bomb was dropped
What is August 6, 1945
The date of D-Day.
What is June 6th, 1944?
Germany.
What is Axis?
The attempt to exterminate the Jewish race by the Germans.
What is Holocaust?
The Prime Minister of Great Britain during WW II.
Who is Winston Churchill?
The name of the American military's secret mission to build atomic bombs.
What is the "Manhattan Project?"
These laws were created to limit the rights of Jewish people living in Germany.
What were the Nuremberg Laws?
Japan.
What is Axis?
A policy of giving in to another to please them and avoid war or a conflict.
What is appeasement?
The Fascist leader of Italy during WW II.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
The Name of the the President who decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan
Who is President Truman
The name of the first Japanese city that had the Atomic bomb dropped on it.
What is Hiroshima?
Italy.
What is Axis?
A type of government where the leader is in complete control of every aspect of society.
What is a Dictatorship?
The Communist leader of the Soviet Union during WW II.
Who is Josef Stalin?
The number of men from the Nuremberg Trials who were sentenced to death because of war crimes.
What is 12?
The location of the D-Day invasion
What is Normandy France?
Soviet Union.
What is Allies?