A. a type of warfare that concentrated troops and mechanized elements in strategic areas in order to break through enemy lines.
What is blitzkrieg?
100
His protest plans were instrumental in the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Committee.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
100
The German commander in North Africa who was also known as the Desert Fox.
Who is Erwin Rommel?
100
The Japanese strategy of crashing piloted planes into Allied ships in the Pacific.
What is Kamikaze?
100
The secret program to develop an atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project.
200
A program developed by FDR to aid the Allies with war supplies while preserving U.S. neutrality.
What is the Lend Lease Act?
200
These workers from Mexico were very important in agricultural production.
What is a bracero?
200
A battle in North Africa where the British under General Montgomery stopped the German advance into Egypt.
What is the Battle of El Alamein?
200
The Allied strategy of landing on significant Japanese controlled islands in order to re-gain control and establish bases from which they could attack Japan.
What is island hopping?
200
At this conference, the Nazis decided on a "final solution to the Jewish question."
What is Wannsee Conference.
300
Hitler broke through this fortified line of defenses that was protecting the French border.
What is the Maginot Line?
300
Agricultural production had to remain high during WWII because the U.S. was providing food for the U.S. and these other groups.
What are the Allies?
300
The British and American troops who landed in French North Africa in 1942 were under the command of this general.
Who is General Dwight Eisenhower?
300
The U.S. Navy's ability to read Japanese secret codes was on of the reasons the Allies won this battle in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea?
300
The Allies were aided in the liberation of Paris by this non-military group.
What were French citizens?
400
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on this date
What is Dec. 7, 1941?
400
This group of people were urged by the U.S. government to support the war effort by doing something different, such as taking industrial jobs.
What are women?
400
The turning point in the war between the Soviet Union and Germany came at a battle in this city in the U.S.S.R.
What is Stalingrad?
400
The U.S. was able to go on the offensive in the Pacific after these 3 victories.
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway, and the victory at Guadalcanal?
400
Approximately this many people died during WWII.
What is 50 million people?
500
The Allies fought Germany for control of vital trade routes.
What is the Battle of the Atlantic?
500
The U.S. put this group of people in camps because they were afraid the group would spy for their original country of origin.
What are Japanese-Americans?
500
The Allied landing in Normandy or D-Day, which was a massive amphibian landing meant to liberate France, had an official name.
What is Operation Overlord?
500
The Japanese were able to grab control of U.S., British, and Dutch possessions in Southeast Asia after this attack on U.S. territory.
What is Pearl Harbor?
500
The fight between Germany's and Britain's air forces for control of the skies over Britain.