Causes of WWII
The countries make up the Allied Powers.
Who are the US, Great Britain, France, and USSR?
This event officially began WWII.
What is the invasion of Poland?
This battle led to the US officially declaring war on the Axis Powers.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The systematic murder of 11 million people contained in concentration and death camps throughout Germany-controlled Europe.
What is the Holocaust?
This act allowed the US to help the allies without actually joining the war by supplying them with weapons.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
What is Manchuria?
This battle resulted in the liberation of France and is also known as D-Day.
What is the Battle of Normandy?
This battle was a major turning point in the Pacific and allowed the Allies to go on the offensive.
What is the Battle of Midway?
Germany's new totalitarian government under Hitler and the Nazis was known as this type of government.
What is Fascist?
This term describes the use of media in order to influence public opinion for or against a specific cause.
What is propaganda?
In the invasion of France, Germany launched a Blitzkrieg through this area, which was considered naturally impenetrable.
What is the Ardennes?
Great Britain was able to win the Battle of Britain with the help of this technology.
What is radar?
The atomic bombs were dropped by the US onto these two Japanese cities.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Hitler's non-aggression pact with the USSR stated the following.
They would not attack each other, and they would both split Poland.
This famous woman was the face of women in the US during WWII. She symbolized strength and emphasized the importance of women in the production of wartime goods.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
This is the first country that Hitler annexed in the months leading up to WWII.
What is Austria?
This incredibly long and bloody battle that took place in the USSR marked a major turning point in the Soviets' fight against the Germans.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
This battle is memorialized in Washington D.C. and involved Japanese attacks from underground tunnels and caves.
What is Iwo Jima?
Hitler blamed the burning of this building on the communists, which ultimately lead to him having the ability to create any law he wanted.
What is the Reichstag?
The US forced this group of people into interment camps in 1942.
Who are Japanese-Americans?
The Munich Pact was an example of appeasement in which Great Britain signed an agreement with Germany allowing them to take over this region of Czechoslovakia.
What is the Sudetenland?
This culmination of this battle marked V-E Day.
What is the Battle of Berlin?
This man was a black American in the Navy who worked as a mess attendant. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, he manned an anti-aircraft gun and shot down multiple Japanese planes. He was awarded the Navy Cross for his valor.
Who is Dorie Miller?
This term describes the day in which Germans went around destroying synagogues, Jewish homes, and businesses.
What is Kristallnacht?
This is the reason the US decided to drop the atomic bombs on Japan.
What is because a land invasion was estimated to be far deadlier?