This leader decided to break his non-aggression pact and invaded Russia, a costly mistake.
Who is Adolph Hitler
100
This was the area picked to start the war in Europe, then move north
What is North Africa/ Sahara
100
After 1941, most major industries began making _______
What is war material
100
December 7th, 1941 Japanese planes bombed the US Navy at this location
What is Pearl Harbor
100
The number of people Russia lost in the war
What is 24,000,000
200
How many times was FDR elected president of the U.S.?
What is 4
*what is interesting about this?*
200
Another European country that was part of the Axis at the start of the war
What is Italy
200
WWII is credited with doing this to the Great Depression
What is ending it
200
Early plans for the war included stalling the Japanese from reaching this place, which is both a country and a continent
What is Australia, mate!
200
Organization created to keep peace in the world, headquartered in New York City
What is the United Nations
300
Leader of England
Who is Winston Churchill
300
This is the most common explanation of what happened to Hitler
What is took his own life in a bunker
300
What happened to women during the war?
What is they worked outside the home in factories, Red Cross and in the military
300
The name given to the super secret, super expensive U.S. effort to create a weapon using nuclear fission
What is the Manhattan Project
300
US General who became president after the war
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower
400
Leader of Russia, he had ordered the murder of most of his top generals before the war.
Who is Joseph Stalin
400
Russian and American forces met in this German city, ending the war in Europe
What is Berlin
400
What happened to African Americans during the war
What is moved North to work and 700,000 enlisted in the military.
400
Give two reasons for using Atomic Weapons against Japan
What are avoiding loss of life of U.S troops invading the Japanese mainland, and showing Russia we do have the bomb, and it does work
400
Give two reasons the US was the #1 nation in the world following the end of WWII
What is emerging the war with few casualties/ property damage, sole possession of the Atomic Bomb.
500
Name the U.S. Generals in charge of strategy in Europe and the Pacific
Who are Eisenhower and MacArthur
500
June 6th 1944
What is D-Day
500
Explain a geographic reason why US industries were able to produce so much war material during the conflict in ways other countries such as Germany and Russia were not.
What is the US was far removed from the actual fighting/destruction. Its civilian deaths were infinitesimal
500
Name the two cities bombed by Atomic Weapons in August 1945
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki
500
Explain US foreign policy prior to WWII, and the foreign policy after WWII up to 10:35AM today
What is a policy of Isolationism and no alliances before, to one of many alliances afterwards.