World War 2 (A)
The three countries originally in the Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Who were the Allied forces?
UK, France, USA and Soviet Union
Who was the leader of Italy during World War 2?
Benito Mussolini
Who was the leader of Germany during WWW2?
Adolf Hitler
Who did the USA defeat in the Pacific?
Japan
What were the two places that the U.S.A dropped bombs on in Japan?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What nation did Germany invade to cause WW2?
Poland
Which battle was the first ever to be fought completely in the air.
The Battle of Britain
The systematic attempt to rid Europe of all Jewish people is called...
The Holocaust
Where Japanese Americans were forced to go during WW2 for fear of being spies or sympathetic to Japan ?
Internment Camps
What country was Joseph Stalin the leader of?
USSR or Russia
How long did World War II last
6 years
Jews
Who was the president of the United States at the end of World War II?
Harry Truman
Name of Japanese dictator during World War 2?
Hideki Tojo
A political philosophy where a dictator has total control - personal liberties are restricted and ideology is often based on nationalism and racism
What is Fascism
The German belief that their race was superior to all the other races.
Aryan Supremacy
Examples of things America did on the Homefront to support the war.
Scrap drives, victory garden, ration books
The name of a leader who has complete control over all aspects of government and even citizens lives
Dictator
Who was the president of the United States at the start of WW2
Franklin D Roosevelt
What happened on the 7th of December, 1941
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
Turning point of the war in the Pacific theater.
Battle of Midway
What was Hitler’s famous quick and nimble strategy (lightning war) for attacking called?
Blitzkrieg
The name of the Allied invasion in Normandy.
D-Day
Leader of Great Britain during World War 2
Winston Churchill