WWII People
Who led the Nazis?
Adolf Hitler
Locations where the US dropped atomic bombs
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What does appeasement mean?
Doing something to keep the peace
This character was used to get women to work in factories during WWII?
Rosie the Riveter
The program to create the first atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
This group was placed in internment camps in the U.S from 1942-1946
Japanese Americans
What was VJ Day?
The day Japan surrendered; End of war in Japan
What does blitzkrieg mean?
War tactic that combined forces in the air and on the ground
In order to save items for the military, US citizens had to _____________
ration
Name for Germany, Japan, and Italy?
Axis Powers
Leaders of the Axis powers?
Hirohito, Hitler and Mussolini
What was VE Day?
The day Germany surrendered; End of WWII in Europe
What Where U-Boats?
German submarine
The US was unprepared for war, so they had to enact the ___________
draft
What countries made up the Allies?
Great Britain, France, US, Soviet Union
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII
Winston Churchill
What country was invaded first by Germany?
Poland
First Event that leads to the eventual surrender of Germany in the European Theater
D -Day
Reason President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan rather than invade by land
Save the lives of American soldiers
This was an attack on a US base by the Japanese.
Pearl Harbor
What Reich was Germany in?
The Third German Reich
This is an Allied Power that surrendered first
What is France?
Invasion of the USSR by Germany
Operation Barbarosa
J. Robert Oppenheimer & Los Alamos were part of what secret program in the US?
Manhattan Project
How did Hitler break the Treaty of Versailles
Building up military
Militarizing in Rhineland
Annexing Sudetenland
Invading Poland