Prior to WWII, the League of Nations did not stop Italy from attacking this country leading them to become more powerful.
What is Ethiopia?
100
This "lightning war" enabled Hitler to quickly capture Poland.
What is Blitzkrieg?
100
The United States did not officially enter the war until the bombing of the Pearl Harbor Naval Station in this U.S. state.
What is Hawaii?
100
This country, feeling that surrender is shameful, treated its prisoners of war with obscene cruelty.
What is Japan?
100
In this agreement, the Soviet Union and Germany publicly promised not to attack the other for ten years.
What is the Nonagression Pact?
200
Trying to appease Hitler before WWII, the West allowed Germany to send forces into this buffer between France and Germany.
What is the Rhineland?
200
The United States dropped the atom bomb on these two cities in Japan.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
200
In the Battle of Britain, the Royal Air Force (RAF) was able to be successful because of these two technological inventions.
What are radar and the code-breaking machine Enigma?
200
In this famous extermination camp, prisoners were sorted by strength, with the weak members sent to be immediately gassed and cremated.
What is Auschwitz?
200
Until March 1940, using soldiers on skis, this small country was able to resist the attack of the much larger Soviet Union.
What is Finland?
300
This British prime minister further appeased Hitler by giving him the Sudetenland, claiming that it brought "peace for our time."
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
300
This epic battle was important because it proved that Hitler could be blocked.
What is the Battle of Britain?
300
In the Battle of Midway, American airplane pilots destroyed this many Japanese planes, many of them still on their carriers.
What is 332?
300
On August 6, 1945 this many people died at 8:16 a.m. on the island of Honshu.
What is 70,000?
300
After the Nuremberg Trials, twelve people were found guilty of crimes against humanity. Ten were hanged and their bodies were cremated in the ovens of this former concentration camp.
What is Dachau?
400
After failing to capture either Leningrad or Moscow, Hitler failed to capture this city dooming his troops to death in another Russian winter.
What is Stalingrad?
400
Thousands of tons of Allied bombs destroyed 95% of the central area of this city.
What is Berlin?
400
After WWII, Japan's government became this, similar to Britain.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
400
In the concentration camps run by the Nazis, most people lost about this much weight in the first couple of months.
What is 50 lbs?
400
As one of the terms of peace, Emperor Hirohito of Japan had to declare this.
What is he is not divine?
500
Hitler foolishly doubled-crossed Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in this operation.
What is Operation Barbarossa?
500
By April 25th, this country's forces had surrounded Berlin and were constantly shelling it.
What is the Soviet Union?
500
These laws, passed in 1935, signaled to the Jewish citizens of Germany that life was not to be the same.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
500
When Germany attacked the Soviet Union, the Soviets used this strategy to ensure the Germans would find no food during its invasion.
What is the scorched earth strategy?
500
After WWII, interest in the communist party rose until the staging of these, after which their enrollment declined.