The city in Japan upon which the US dropped the first atomic bomb
What is Hiroshima?
100
He was the architect of the D-Day invasion.
Who is Eisenhower?
100
FDR carried out this foreign policy by removing American control in Haiti, Cuba, and Panama.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
100
Francisco Franco led an overthrow of the republican government of...
What is Spain?
100
They were conspicuously absent from Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941...say the conspiracy theorists.
What are aircraft carriers?
200
Author of Mein Kampf.
Who is Hitler
200
These black pilots served with distinction in WWII even if they didn't get deserved recognition until after the war's conclusion.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
200
FDR signed the Atlantic Charter with this famous WWII leader.
Who is Winston Churchill?
200
It was here that the policy of appeasement was crafted to thwart Hitler's aggression in Europe?
What is Munich, Germany 1938?
200
American and British diplomats decided that nothing more could be done to help Jewish refugees at this meeting.
What is the Bermuda Conference?
300
He was allowed to keep his title after the peace treaty was signed in Tokyo Bay in Sept. 1945
Who is Hirohito?
300
He led Japan's military government and was executed for war crimes at the end of the war.
Who is Tojo?
300
Roosevelt defeated this Republican for a historic 3rd term in 1940.
Who is Wendell Willkie?
300
Hitler's advance in the European theater of war crested in late 1942 at this battle, after which his fortunes gradually declined.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
300
Navajo Indians served with distinction as these during the war.
What were code talkers?
400
Secretary of State from 1933-1944
Who is Hull?
400
This German general was nicknamed "the desert fox" and fought skillfully in both North Africa and Europe.
Who is E. Rommel?
400
Roosevelt used Executive Order 8802 to establish this agency which saw to it that no hiring discrimination practices were used against blacks seeking employment in war industries.
What is Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)?
400
At this wartime conference, plans were made for the opening of a second front in Europe.
What is Teheran?
400
In return for this gift, the British gave the US the full rights to 8 naval bases.
What were destroyers?
500
She led the WAACS during WWII.
Who is Oveta Culp Hobby?
500
The US supported this leader of China's Nationalist government during and after WWII.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
500
FDR's this sensational 1937 speech about aggression in Asia and Europe led to a wave of protest by isolationists.
What is Quarantine Speech?
500
By the end of WWII, the heart of the US's African American community had shifted to cities in these two regions of the country.
What are northern and western cities?
500
This was the first policy to deal with belligerent nations as a neutral party in the 1930s.