This act of aggression by Adolf Hitler is considered the official start of WWII.
What is the Invasion of Poland?
100
This attack combined efforts on air, land and sea and was led by the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces. Many American lives were lost during this operation, however it was successful in securing an American foothold in France.
Bonus Question
What is D-Day or Operation Overlord?
100
This man led the Allied troops in the Pacific and was instrumental in the defense and liberation of the Philippines from Japanese rule.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
100
He was the first President to issue a peacetime draft.
Bonus Questions
Who is FDR?
100
This painted character was a symbol of the strong, independent women workers that filled in doing jobs that were thought of as “men’s work” during WWII.
Who is “Rosie the Riveter”?
200
This was the policy Britain and France adopted prior to the start of the war in which they gave in to Hitler’s demands to try and avoid further conflict.
What is appeasement?
200
The mass killing of 6 million European Jews at the hands of the Nazis in camps spread over Poland and Germany is known as what? Why was it named this?
Bonus Question
What is the Holocaust? The word "Holocaust" means destruction by fire, and the Nazis burned he bodies of many of the Jews they killed in the camps.
200
The U.S. strategy in the Pacific in which they captured some Japanese-held islands and went around others.
What is island hopping?
200
The policy the U.S. adopted at the beginning of WWII to keep out of European affairs.
What is Isolationism?
200
Though they had to go through tougher training than the average enlistee, this squad of pilots proved themselves time and time again. Their group is known to have one of the best records for number of planes protected during bomber escort missions.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
300
A system of government where the needs of the government are put ahead of the needs of the individual.
Bonus Question
What is fascism?
300
This Russian city was encircled by the German Army for 890 days, cutting off its residents from food and other supplies. It was eventually freed by the Red Army.
What is the Siege of Leningrad?
300
Name two of the effects of the dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What are...Hundreds of thousands of deaths, many wounded (burns, lacerations, etc), destroyed buildings, long-range diseases due to radiation
300
Over 100,000 Japanese-Americans were imprisoned in these during WWII because they were accused of being spies or leaking info to Japan.
What are Internment Camps?
300
Name the major difference between the effects of WWI and WWII
WWI was fought mainly in the trenches, while a big part of WWII was the bombing of cities and towns, destroying homes, roads, etc and killing many civilians.
400
Adolf Hitler broke this agreement with his invasion of the Soviet Union in June of 1941. His unsteady truce with Joseph Stalin was no more.
What is the Nazi Soviet Non-Aggression Pact?
400
This final German assault in the Ardennes region of Belgium was particularly brutal due to an extremely harsh winter in the area. After an initial setback, the Allies proved victorious, pushing German forces back.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
400
This message sent by the Allied leaders warned Japan to “surrender or face prompt and utter destruction”. Japan promptly ignored the message.
What is the Potsdam Declaration?
400
This piece of legislation allowed the sale or loan of war materials to any country that’s defense was vital to the security of the U.S.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
This German tactic of large, quick attacks was known as “lightning war” in English.
What is Blitzkrieg?
500
After the Fall of France in June of 1940, Winston Churchill and his country endured swift and harsh bombings from the Germany air force in this battle.
What is the Battle of Britain?
500
This relatively new word means a systematic extermination of a group of people based on political, racial, ethnic, or religious ties.
What is Genocide?
500
This battle in the Pacific saw the first major defeat of the Japanese Navy at the hands of the Americans.
What is the Battle of Midway?
500
Name the two biggest immediate effects of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
U.S. Citizens united in their support of the U.S. entering the war, and the U.S. declared war on Japan and her allies.
500
12 Nazi leaders were convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death at this international tribunal, in addition to the thousands of Nazis who were sentenced to prison and Japanese leaders convicted of war crimes.