This term refers to the policy Britain and France practiced with the Nazis before the start of WW II- think negotiate to avoid war.
What is appeasement
100
The dropping of the A-bomb on Nagasaki and this Japanese city led to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
What is Hiroshima
100
This man was dictator of the Soviet Union and used the KGB to kill his enemies:
Who is Joseph Stalin
100
The main reason Japan invaded Southeast Asia was to get ________ for their planes.
What is oil
100
The assassination of the Archduke _____________________
Started WW I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand
200
The U.S. practiced this policy in order to stay out of the war due to being weak economically.
What is isolationism
200
During the battle of El Alamein, Hitler was trying to get access to this canal in Egypt to have access to oil in the Middle East.
What is the Suez Canal
200
Mussolini and Hitler were part of this alliance
What is the Axis Powers
200
Hitler’s invasion of this country made France and Britain declare war on Germany. (start of war)
What is Poland
200
This Treaty blamed WW I on Germans and made them limit their army.
What is Treaty of Versailles
300
Germany, Japan and Italy invaded countries for natural resources. This made them
What is aggresors
300
The bombing of ________________________ led the U.S. to join WW II.
What is Pearl Harbor
300
Francisco Franco was the fascist dictator of this country.
What is Spain
300
When a person hates Jews specifically this is known as
What is Anti-Semitism
300
The Japanese suicide pilots popular during WW II are known as
What is Kamikazes
400
The deliberate mass killing of an entire national, ethnic or religious group- think Holocaust.
What is genocide
400
At this battle allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy and Omaha, which led to the surrender of Germans and Italians.
What is D-Day
400
This man was president of the U.S. during most of WW II
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
400
Hitler blamed the _______________________
For the burning of the Reichstag of German parliament.
Who are the Communists
400
The _________________ were sent to internment camps during WW II because they were seen as enemies of the U.S.
Who are the Japanese
500
In 1939 Hitler and Stalin signed a ________________
which promised they would NOT invade each other.
What is non-aggression pact.
500
At this famous battle in Russia which greatly damaged the Nazis, the Germans could not stand the brutal winter and were defeated by the Russians.
What is Stalingrad
500
This man was Hitler’s minister of propaganda and produced the film Triumph of the Will.
Who is Joseph Goebbels
500
Put these in chronological order:
A. Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
B. Allies invade Europe on D-Day.
C. Germany invades Poland.
D. Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
What is C-D-B-A
500
This type of warfare was used more so in WW I then in WW II.