European Theater
Pacific Theater
Key People
Places
Miscellaneous
100
Genocide of Jewish peoples and other minority groups throughout Europe
Holocaust
100
Japanese pilot suicide attacks on US ships and other installations
Kamakaze Attacks
100
U.S. President throughout most of the war; dies in office
Franklin D. Roosevelt
100
Fascist country that aligned with Germany in the early years of the war; its leader was eventually executed by their own people
Italy
100
This country was occupied by the German's throughout most of the war; its leaders fled to Britain to maintain provisional government
France
200
On September 1st, 1939, Germany invades this country; this invasion is argued to be the start of WWII
Poland
200
This battle is known as the "turning point" of the war in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
200
der Führer; ruler of Germany's Third Reich
Adolf Hitler
200
The Japanese conducted a sneak attack on this naval port on December 7th, 1941
Pearl Harbor
200
"Lightening War;" Germany's fast-paced war strategy
Blitzkrieg
300
June 6th, 1944; allied invasion of Europe; Operation Overlord
D-Day
300
Allied victory that made the Japanese play on the defensive for the first time; key victory for allies
Guadalcanal
300
Premier of the Soviet Union during WWII
Joseph Stalin
300
Locations where atomic bombs were dropped in 1945 in attempts to get the Japanese to surrender
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
300
The name of the race that Hitler believed to be superior
Aryan
400
The invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany
Operation Barbarossa
400
Raid on Tokyo by American bombers in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor
Doolittle Raids
400
Prime Minister of Britain during most of WWII; NOT a fan of appeasing to Hitler
Winston Churchill
400
This country was annexed and absorbed into Germany during WWII; known as the "Anschluss"
Austria
400
The code name of the top secret project for the development of the atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
500
Battle that was fought in the Ardennes forest; last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front
Battle of the Bulge
500
What is the following image showing?
Dive Bombing
500
President Roosevelt's successor after his death in 1945; this President oversaw the end of the war
Harry S. Truman
500
City where Hitler and his wife commit suicide in their bunker as the Soviets closed in
Berlin
500
Name of the German "air force"
Luftwaffe