Pacific Theater
This strategy involved capturing key islands one by one to get within bombing range of Japan.
Island-hopping
Germany's invasion of this country on Sept. 1, 1939, officially started the war.
Poland
These Japanese suicide pilots crashed planes into Allied ships out of loyalty.
Kamikazes
This aggressive movement prioritized the nation over the people and sought to build empires.
Fascism
This B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Enola Gay
This 1942 naval battle is considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
Midway
This British city survived nearly two years of bombing during the Battle of Britain.
London
These Japanese suicide pilots crashed planes into Allied ships out of loyalty.
D-Day/Normandy
This policy of giving in to Hitler’s demands was used by nations to try and prevent war.
Appeasement
These are the names of the two Japanese cities destroyed by atomic bombs.
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Japan attacked this island chain the day after Pearl Harbor to gain control of East Asia.
The Philippines
Over 300,000 Allied troops were evacuated from this French coastal town in 1940.
Dunkirk
U.S. Admiral Nimitz set up an ambush at Midway after cracking these.
Japanese Codes
According to Eisenhower, the "home fronts" provided the armies with better training and these.
Superior Weapons
This top-secret U.S. government project was responsible for developing the A-bomb.
Manhattan Project
This 1945 battle was the site of a famous flag-raising on Mount Suribachi.
This Soviet city was under siege for three years, severely depleting German resources.
Leningrad
This was the name of the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific and the "last stop" before Japan.
Okinawa
This leader of the Soviet Union used collectivization of agriculture to seize family farms.
Joseph Stalin
Truman's advisers suggested using the bomb to end the war fast and lower this.
Total Casualty Count
He was the U.S. General who led the Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific.
Douglas MacArthur
This day, celebrated on May 8, 1945, marked the unconditional surrender of Germany.
VE Day
This battle resulted in the highest casualty rate in Marine Corps history: 7,000 killed.
Iwo Jima
This was the primary reason Hitler was angry enough to seek power after WWI.
Treaty of Versailles
This many people in total died from the two atomic blasts by the end of 1945.
210,000