Leaders
What political party was Stalin?
Communist
The invasion of this country sparked WWII.
Poland
Before joining the war, the United States gave aid to which country?
Great Britain
What battle caused the US to join WWII?
Pearl Harbor
What is the English translation of Kristallnacht?
Night of Broken Glass
What was Hitler's plan to improve Germany?
The rise of this political ideology led to WWII.
Fascism
What was the code name to free France?
D Day, Operation Overlord
Where were Jews forced to live before concentration camps?
Ghettos
Why was Mussolini angry?
Blamed the Treaty of Versailles for not doing enough for Italy
Hitler invaded this neutral country to get to France.
Belgium
What happened to Japanese Americans living on the west coast?
Put into internment camps
What caused the Battle of the Bulge?
German counterattack on Allied forces in Belgium
What laws took away citizenship from German Jews?
Nuremberg Laws
Which President dropped the atomic bombs?
President Truman
This country made a non-aggression pact with Germany.
Soviet Union
Who was the symbol of the war effort of women?
Rosie the Riveter
How did the Japanese continue to fight for so long on Iwo Jima?
Tunnels
Atomic bombs were dropped where?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What happened to Hitler at the end of the war?
After the Fall of Berlin, he committed suicide.
Half of this country was unwilling to be annexed to Germany, while the other half wanted to be.
Czechoslovakia
Name three things women did to help the war effort:
Worked in factories and offices, nurses, rationed food, created victory gardens, WASP, etc.
Of the battles we studied, which was the deadliest battle and why?
Battle of Stalingrad- Germans were trapped in city with no supplies and bad weather
How did the atomic bombs impact the world?
Led to the Cold War