Places
Homefront
People
Battles/Weapons
Odds & Ends
100
The site of the most notorious death camp
What is Auschwitz?
100
System used to equalize the opportunities for consumers to purchase goods that were in very short supply
What is rationing?
100
Japanese "suicide" pilots
What is "kamikaze"?
100
Tactic employed by the Germans when attacking Poland in 1939 and when attacking Norway and Denmark in 1940
What is "Blitzkreig" (lightning war)?
100
According to Winston Churchill it had descended across eastern Europe "from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic"
What is the Iron Curtain?
200
The remarkable evacuation of British troops from this French city in 1940 saved them from the German armored units that had them trapped
What is Dunkirk?
200
Name the United States gave to the camps where those of Japanese descent were held during World War II
What is relocation centers?
200
The Big Three at Yalta
Who are Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin?
200
A German strike force of about 300 tanks with accompanying forces and supplies
What is a panzer division?
200
June 6, 1944
What is D-Day?
300
Cellars, subways, etc. that gave civilians some protection from boming raids
What are air raid shelters?
300
British leader who "appeased' Hitler at the Munich Conference
Who is Chamberlain?
300
Strategy employed in the Pacific after the Battle of Midway turned the tide for the Allies
What is island hopping?
300
Korean women who were forced to serve as prostitutes for Japanese troops
What is "comfort women"?
400
The North African city that became a turning point in the war when Rommel's troops were forced to retreat
What is El Alamein?
400
City whose residents endured a 900 day seige
What is Leningrad?
400
Leader of the resistance forces in Yugoslavia
Who is Tito?
400
American colony where the Battle of Corregidor and the notorious Bataan Death March occurred
What is the Philippines?
400
Ratio of European Jews who lost their lives during the Holocaust
What is 2 out of every 3?
500
The brutality of the Japanese during the conquest of this city caused many to refer to it as the "Chinese Holocaust"
What is Nanjing?
500
Nickname given to American women who filled positions in industry during the war
What is Rosie the Riveter?
500
Leader of the Vichy government in France who cooperated with the Nazis
Who is Petain?
500
Names of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan
What is Little Boy and Fat Man?
500
The month and year in which Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler died
What is April 1945?
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