Giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace
What is appeasement?
100
An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.
What is blitzkrieg?
100
What event pulled the United States into WWII?
What is the Bombing of Pearl Harbor?
100
June 6, 1944 when the Allies invaded France.
What is D-Day (I'll also accept the Battle of Normandy)?
100
Conference in February 1945 in which Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin agreed Germany would be temporarily divided into 4 zones (Soviet, French, American & British).
What is the Yalta Conference?
200
WWII started with Hitler's invasion of...?
What is Poland?
200
Evacuation of allied soldiers by civilian boats.
What is Dunkirk?
200
American General who was made Supreme Allied Commander in 1944
What is Dwight D Eisenhower?
200
Japanese suicide pilots
What is Kamikaze?
200
City in which the Allies held war crime trials for Nazi leaders.
What is Nuremberg?
300
The alliance between Hitler, Mussolini & Imperial Japan
What is the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis?
300
The Desert Fox (Nazi General in African Campaign)
What is General Erwin Rommel?
300
The "Big 3" were....
What is Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Rosevelt and Joseph Stalin.
300
The top-secret American project to build the Atom Bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
300
A state of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the Western Democracy on one side and the the Soviet Union (& Communism) on the other.
What is the Cold War?
400
The territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany.
What is lebensraum?
400
Nickname given to Battle of Britain, in which Nazi planes tried to bomb Britain into submitting.
What is the Blitz?
400
Battle in the USSR in which the Nazi's attacked the city and Soviet army surrounded it. An estimated 2 million military personnel killed or wounded and thousands of civilian deaths.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
400
was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war. Killed several aprox 10,000 Allied soldiers
What is the Bataan Death March?
400
Plan to rebuild Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
Nonagression pact between Hitler and Stalin that agreed not to fight if the other went to war and to divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between them.
What is the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
500
Atrocities committed in the former Chinese capital by the Japanese in 1937?
What is the Rape of Nanjing?
500
British-American invasion of North Africa to push the Nazi's out and then to use it as a launching point to invade Italy.
What is Operation Torch?
500
American 5-Star General in the Pacific Campaign. Came up with policy of "island-hopping"
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
500
Who are the five permanent members of the United Nations?
What is the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia (formerly the USSR)?