Vocab
Leaders
Battles
German Offensive
Cold War
100
This word is Japanese for "divine wind"
What is kamikaze?
100
This was the British prime minister who, in an effort to avoid war, supported the appeasement of Germany.
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
100
The name for Germany's air assault on London and other cities.
What is Blitz, Blitzkreig, Battle of Britain?
100
After Germany annexed this country, Britain and France declared war.
What is Poland?
100
These were the two superpowers at the center of the Cold War.
What is the US and USSR?
200
These people helped Nazis hunt down Jews.
What are collaborators?
200
German general known as the "Desert Fox".
Who is Edwin Rommel?
200
The annexing of this island led to the arrest of Mussolini.
What is Sicily?
200
What country did Germany sign a nonaggression pact with, later violating it?
What is Soviet Union?
200
These were the Big Three at the final conference after Germany surrendered.
Who are Churchill, Stalin and Truman?
300
This policy was the satisfying reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers in an attempt to maintain peace and stability.
What is appeasement?
300
The US president who made the decision to actually drop the atomic bomb.
Who is Harry Truman?
300
This was the first US victory over Japan in which they went on the offensive in the Pacific.
What is Battle of Midway?
300
This was the number of Jews killed during WWII at the hands of the Nazis.
What is six million?
300
After the war, this city was divided into four sections.
What is Berlin?
400
These are restrictions intended to enforce international law.
What are sanctions?
400
He was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
400
This is the date that will live in infamy?
What is December 7, 1941?
400
This was the name for the German plan to exterminate the Jews.
What is the Final Solution?
400
President Roosevelt preferred for eastern European countries to vote for their democratic institutions. The policy was called....
What is self-determination?
500
This is the refusal to take sides or become involved in wars between other nations. It was the US policy for WWII until late 1941.
What is neutrality?
500
This was the leader of the SS, in charge of resettlement plans in the east.
Who is Heinrich Himmler?
500
This is the date of the D-Day invasion.
What is June 6, 1944?
500
Troops from this country freed the concentration camps.
What is the Soviet Union?
500
Churchill's famous speech in 1946 was known as THIS speech.
What is "iron curtain"?
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