The Pacific
Europe
Fighting the War
People
Impact
100
The U.S. entered the war after this was bombed by Japan
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
Before invading Europe, the Americans fought Germany in the desert on this continent.
What is Africa?
100
The word for the "lightning war" fought by Germany.
What is blitzkrieg?
100
He was the President of the United States at the beginning of World War II.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
100
After the war, this country was divided into four occupation zones.
What is Germany?
200
This was the strategy for winning the war in the Pacific
What is "island hopping"?
200
This battle in the Soviet Union was Germany's first loss.
What is Stalingrad?
200
When Stalin destroyed his own land so Hitler could not get food or supplies, he was using this type of technique.
What is a "scorched earth" strategy?
200
This American President made the decision to drop the atomic bomb.
Who is Harry S Truman?
200
World War II marked the beginning of this age in which people used nuclear energy for power.
What is the Atomic Age?
300
This first U.S. victory in 1942 was a turning point in the war.
What is Midway?
300
This Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 is more commonly known as this.
What is D-Day?
300
Hitler double-crossed Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union because he said that the German people needed Lebensraum, which means this.
What is living room?
300
He was the Prime Minister of Great Britain who refused to surrender to Hitler.
Who is Winston Churchill?
300
This organization was founded to replace the League of Nations.
What is the United Nations?
400
This battle is memorialized in a statue of the Marines raising the U.S. flag
What is Iwo Jima?
400
This battle was Germany's final offensive push in December 1944.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
400
These African American pilots trained in Alabama and became famous for providing protection for bombers and transport aircraft.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
400
He was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe and later became President of the US.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
400
For the first time in any war more of this group died than soldiers.
What are civilians?
500
Nagasaki and this other Japanese city were destroyed by atomic bombs.
What is Hiroshima?
500
This Allied country suffered the most casualties during World War Two.
What is the Soviet Union?
500
Members of this Native American tribe served as Code Talkers.
What is the Navajo?
500
He left the Philippines but vowed that he would return. And he did!
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
500
The Soviet Union and the United States were called this after the war
What are "superpowers"?
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