War Begins
US Policies
Battles
War Ends
Vocabulary
100
This was a fortified defense between France and Germany
What is the Maginot Line?
100
This was the US's first neutral policy, passed by Congress in 1939
What is "Cash & Carry"?
100
This battle was the Allied invasion of Normandy
What is D-Day?
100
This was the last major battle of the war
What is Okinawa?
100
This was the Japanese strategy of using suicide pilots to crash planes into Allied ships
What is kamikaze?
200
This was the agreement between Hitler and Stalin to not attack each other and share Poland
What is the Nonaggression Pact?
200
US action to block the sale of oil to Japan led to this event
What is Pearl Harbor?
200
This battle put Japan on the defensive for the rest of the war
What is Midway?
200
This was the name of the secret program to develop an atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
200
This was the Allied strategy of conquering one island at a time, working their way to the mainland of Japan
What is island-hopping?
300
When this country refused to give up the Sudetenland, Hitler threatened war
What is Czechoslovakia?
300
This board controlled manufacturing in the US during the war
What is the War Production Board?
300
This was the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history
What is Iwo Jima?
300
The Japanese surrendered less than 1 month after the US dropped a second atomic bomb on this city
What is Nagasaki?
300
This means to give in to avoid war
What is appease?
400
World War II began on this date when Hitler invaded Poland
What is Sept. 1, 1939?
400
The US used these two methods to pay for the war
What are war bonds and increased taxes?
400
This was Germany's last offensive attack
What is Battle of the Bulge?
400
This was the nickname for the full-scale invasion of Japan, which never happened
What is Operation Downfall?
400
This is the forced relocation and imprisonment of a person or group of people
What is internment?
500
These were Hitler's motivations for wanting war (at least 2)
What are the Treaty of Versailles, revenge for WWI, and the depression?
500
This created the first peacetime military draft in US history
What is the Selective Training and Service Act?
500
The Soviets turned back the Germans at this battle
What is Stalingrad?
500
The Holocaust killed how many people in total (approx.)
What is 9 million?
500
This is the deliberate murder of a specific group of people
What is genocide?
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