Turning Points of WWII
What happened on December 7, 1941?
Why is this considered a turning point in the war?
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
The US entered the war.
After implementing anti-semitic laws, Hitler began to tone it down in 1936. The world was come to visit Germany for this event.
What was the Olympics?
She was the symbol of an ad campaign to attract women into the workforce during WWII.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
Who gave President Roosevelt the idea to begin the development of an atomic weapon?
Who is Albert Einstein?
WWII began when Germany invaded this country in 1939.
What is Poland? Britain and France declare war following this.
What was Operation Sealion?
Was it successful?
Hilter's plan to invade Britain in 1940.
No, despite an intense bombing campaign of Britain, Hitler was not successful and had to postpone his invasion plans.
If he won, the war would have ended with a German victory.
Hitler used this term for the extermination of the Jewish people, or the Jewish problem.
What is the Final Solution?
Six million women answered the call to join this during WWII.
What is the workforce?
They went to work in factories where they built the weapons, ships, and planes used against the Axis powers.
What two cities did the US bomb in WWII?
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This event happened on June 6, 1944
What is D-Day?
Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy.
Identify two American actions that aggravated the Japanese and increased their aggression towards the United States.
1. The US moved its military from San Diego to Pearl Harbor.
2. The US ordered a military build-up in the Philippines.
3. The US stopped oil shipments to Japan.
In the first Phase (1933-34), laws were passed to prevent Jewish people from serving in certain professional considered visible positions of power. Identify two of these professions.
Civil service, the legal profession, the teaching profession, the medical profession, and the press.
After WWII, why did many women leave the workforce?
Encouraged to give up their jobs to men returning from war.
Who made the decision to use the atomic bomb?
Who is Harry Truman?
What happened on April 30, 1945, just days before Germany surrendered on May 7th.
What is Hitler killed himself?
Why is the Battle of Midway considered a turning point in the war?
It was the first allied victory in the war in the Pacific.
These laws passed in Phase II (1935) denied Jews the right to German citizenship, forbid marriage between Germans and Jews.
The Nuremberg laws.
How were the women who played for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League expected to act?
Ladylike while playing great baseball.
This emperor of Japan surrendered in August of 1945 after his country was bombed.
Who is Emperor Hirohito?
The year that Hitler's rule began in Germany.
What is 1933?
This battle is considered one of the bloodiest battles in history. After this battle, the Germans were in retreat. (August 1942- February 1943)
The Battle of Stalingrad.
Death Camps were placed in Poland during Phase IV of the Holocaust. (Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Belzec were some of the worst camps.) Explain what happened to the Jewish people when they arrived at the camp.
The Jews were selected for work or death.
Work- heads were shaved, tattooed with a number, given a uniform, de-humanized, forced to do hard labor, and given little to eat.
Death- executed with Zyklon B gas. Cremated.
Over 6 million Jewish people died during the Holocaust.
What is 10 teams with 900,000 fans.
The number of countries that have nuclear weapons today. Identify them.
What is 9.
US, UK, China, France, Russia, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea?
In 1936-37 this country's aggression begins and it join the alliance of Germany, Italy. (Axis Powers)
What is Japan?