European Theater
Pacific Theater
The Holocaust
Home Front and Ideology
Final Jeopardy
100
This battle is considered the major turning point in Europe because it stopped the German offensive and forced them into a defensive position.
What is The Battle of Stalingrad?
100
The US strategy of bypassing heavily fortified Japanese positions to seize strategically important bases.
What is Island Hopping?
100
The "Night of Broken Glass," where Jewish businesses and synagogues were destroyed.
What is Kristallnacht?
100
The Bracero Program brought workers from this country to the US to address labor shortages in agriculture.
What is Mexico?
200
The primary goal of Operation Overlord (D-Day) was to force Germany to do this.
What is fight a two-front war (by establishing a Western Front)?
200
The direct strategic advantage of capturing Iwo Jima and Okinawa was that they provided bases for this activity.
What is bombing Japanese cities (launching firebombing campaigns)?
200
The systematic extermination of an ethnic, religious, or racial group.
What is Genocide?
200
The 442nd Infantry Regiment was unique because it was made up of Japanese-Americans who fought while their families were here.
What are internment camps?
300
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin was angry at the US and Britain early in the war because they prioritized North Africa instead of doing this.
What is opening a second front in Western Europe?
300
Japanese pilots who intentionally crashed their planes into US ships.
What are Kamikaze?
300
The 1935 Nuremberg Laws were a critical step in the Holocaust because they used the legal system to do this.
What is strip Jews of citizenship and civil rights?
300
A government ideology that promotes absolute loyalty to the state.
What is Totalitarianism?
400
At the Yalta Conference in 1945, Allied leaders agreed to create this organization to prevent future conflicts.
What is the United Nations?
400
The map shows the vast distance of the Pacific. This geography forced the US to prioritize the Pacific War after defeating Germany, a strategy known as this.
What is "Europe First"?
400
The Nazis transitioned from mobile Einsatzgruppen units to death camps because the mobile units were considered this.
What is too slow and inefficient?
400
The policy of giving in to an enemy’s demand to avoid war (often associated with pre-war Britain and Germany).
What is Appeasement?
500
This German term describes "Lightning Wars," a tactic of fast-moving military campaigns.
What is Blitzkrieg?
500
The capture of these islands was intended to draw the Japanese navy into a decisive battle, but the primary rationale for "Island Hopping" was actually to do this.
What is establish bases for the next advance?
500
A section of a city where people of a certain race or ethnic group are forced to live.
What is a Ghetto?
500
The policy of building up strong armed forces and stockpiling weapons.
What is Militarism?
500
This 1939 deal between Russia and Germany shocked the world because the two enemies agreed not to fight each other.
What is the Nonaggression Pact (or Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)?