World War II 1
France and Great Britain Declared war on Germany after it invaded what country?
What is Poland
Italian leader during WWII
Mussolini
Trials after the war which resulted in various leaders in Germany being executed?
Nuremberg Trials
D-Day was the code name for which World War II event
What is the Invasion of Normandy
African American athlete who excelled at the 1936 Olympics
Who is Jesse Owens
Who was the dictator who ruled the Soviet Union during World War II
What is Joe Stalin
Reason Japan justified attacking Pearl Harbor?
Trade Embargo against them by the US, cut off fossil fuel from them
What President ordered the use of the Atomic Bomb.
What is President Truman
Emperor of Japan
Hirihoto
Who ruled Germany?
Hitler
The secret plan to create the nuclear bomb was called
(hint: It's named after one of NYC's five boroughs).
What is The Manhattan Project?
The policy of meeting a nation's demands to avoid war
What is appeasement?
Political extermination done by the Russians, under Stalin's rule?
Purges
What was the first city attacked by the Atomic Bomb?
What is Hiroshima?
Millions of Jews were rounded up in Germany and other parts of Europe, and sent to _______________.
What are concentration camps?
Allied powers were pushed to the beaches of ______ after Germany invaded France.
What is Normandy?
Supreme commander of the Allied Forces on D-Day
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Name given to the race that Nazis believed was the superior race
What is Aryan?
Who were the code talkers?
Navajo Indians were used since their language was not written down and the Japanese could not decipher what was being said by US forces
What is the second city attacked by the Atomic Bomb?
What is Nagasaki?
The United States became the "arsenal of democracy" in the early 1940's in part because the United States possessed this type of bomb?
What is The US possessed the economic resources to produce massive amounts of war material, such as the Atom Bomb.
Korematsu v. US was a case heard by the Supreme Court that held it was constitutional to hold Japanese in________________________.
What are Concentration Camps?
Czechoslovakia was the first country ___________invaded that gave great concern to the rest of the world.
What is Germany?
Deliberate killing of an entire racial or ethnic group
What is genocide?
Describe how the events after WWI would lead to a second global conflict (WWII) ?
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