Leaders
Battles
Potpouri
Allies v. Axis
Potpouri 2
100
What is the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group know as?
Genocide
100
What battle took place between the British Royal Air Force and the German Lutwaffe from July to October 1940?
The Battle of Britain
100
What group was affected by Executive Order #9066?
Japanese-Americans
100
What countries made up the Axis Powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
100
What Native American were known as the "code talkers"?
Navajo
200
What groups were targeted by Hitler's Final Solution?
Jews, Poles, Slavs, Mentally Ill, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Political Dissidents
200
What event did Franklin Roosevelt call "a date that will live in infamy"?
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
200
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
U.S. lends Britain 50 old destroyers for leases on British naval bases for 99 years.
200
What two countries signed a non-aggression pact in 1939?
Germany and the Soviet Union (Russia)
200
Who were the African American pilots that served with distinction during World War II?
Tuskegee Airmen
300
How many Jews were killed as a result of the Holocaust?
6 million
300
What battle was a turning point of the war in the Pacific in June 1942?
The Battle of Midway
300
What was Japan's first territorial acquisition in the Pacific in 1931?
Manchuria
300
What was the war strategy for the Axis Powers?
Invade Russia, secure oil fields, attack Britain before the U.S. could enter the war.
300
What did Roosevelt do in 1940 to prepare the U.S. for war?
He instituted a peacetime draft
400
Where were the trials of Nazis accused of war crimes held at the end of World War II?
Nuremberg, Germany
400
Operation Overlord, which was the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, is also known as what?
D-Day
400
What was the U.S. foreign policy during the 1920s and 1930s called?
Isolationism
400
What was the Allied war strategy?
Attack Hitler first and contain the Japanese in the Pacific.
400
What "poster girl" symbolized the role of women in the workforce during World War II?
Rosie the Riveter
500
As a result of the Holocaust, what Jewish homeland was created in 1948?
Israel
500
What was the last German offensive battle of the war?
The Battle of the Bulge
500
What best describes the Manhattan Project?
The development of the atomic bomb
500
What was the Allied strategy in the Pacific known as?
Island hopping
500
Why was the Geneva Convention created?
To develop rules on how to treat prisoners of war (POWs)
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