Weapons/Places
Name a weird weapon that was used/created in WW2?
Curved rifle, bat bombs, exploding rats, pigeon guided rockets, V3 cannon, mine dogs, Goliath tracked mine, aerial minefield, wind cannon
Which dictator rose to power in Germany during WW2?
Adolf Hitler
How many people died in the Battle of Britain?
450,000 people in total died in the Battle of Britain.
What happened in the Battle of Britain?
Germany bombed Britain and gave up because Britain didn't back down.
What was Lebensraum?
A living space for Germans
Hiroshima and Nagasaki had what dropped on them?
An atomic bomb
Who was the leader for the Soviet Union during WW2?
Joseph Stalin
How many Americans died at Pearl Harbor?
About 2,400 Americans died at Pearl Harbor.
What happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because the U.S. stopped trading with Japan.
What was anti-semitism?
Political, social, & economic agitation against Jews
Which place were there large numbers of people, are imprisoned in a small area to provide forced labor or to await mass execution
Concentration camps
Who was the leader for Italy during WW2?
Benito Mussolini
How many people died at the Battle of Stalingrad?
About 2 million people died at the Battle of Stalingrad.
Battle of the Bulge
What were the Nuremberg Laws?
Excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship, prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood."
What were the segregated Jewish areas and neighborhoods that were sealed with barbed wire and stone walls called?
Ghettos
Who ordered the bombing of Japan?
President Truman
How many people died in the Battle of Midway?
About 3,400 people died in the Battle of Midway.
Which two battles did the Japanese fight to the death?
The battle of Iwo Jima and the battle of Okinawa
What was the Finial Solution?
This is when Germany/Nazis planned to exterminate the Jewish people
What happened at the Yalta Conference?
Germany and Berlin was controlled by the United States, Great Britain, France, and USSR and Stalin was allowed to have elections in nations of Eastern Europe.
Who headed the Manhattan Project to build the Atomic Bomb?
Robert Oppenheimer
How many people died in the Battle of the Bulge?
About 200,000 people died at the Battle of the Bulge.
Who won in the Battle of Stalingrad?
The Soviet Union defeated the Germans in the battle of Stalingrad aka one of the bloodiest wars.
What was Kristallnacht?
The night of broken glass. This is when the Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools, and businesses. This event killed around 100 Jews.