Axis Powers
Question: What country's Prime Minister famously promised to "never surrender" to Germany during the war?
Answer: Great Britain (or the United Kingdom)
Question: After WWI, this treaty punished Germany harshly, causing anger and economic problems that helped Hitler rise to power.
Answer: The Treaty of Versailles
This Louisiana-made boat played a key role in Allied landings during World War II.
What was the Higgins Boat?
Question: Who was the leader (dictator) of Germany during World War II?
Question: Who was the President of the United States for most of the war, leading the country out of the Great Depression?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
Question: Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers believed in taking over other countries to gain more land and power. What is this idea called?
Answer: Expansionism (or aggression, or imperialism)
Louisiana’s rivers helped transport supplies, especially this major river.
What is the Mississippi River?
Japan
Question: What major country, now Russia, joined the Allies after Germany broke their non-aggression pact and invaded them?
Answer: The Soviet Union (USSR)
Question: The official start of World War II in Europe was when Germany invaded what neighboring country on September 1, 1939?
Answer: Poland
Large military training exercises held in Louisiana before World War II
What were the Louisiana Maneuvers?
Question: Who was the leader of Italy, the third main Axis power, who wanted to create a new Roman Empire?
Question: What Asian country was fighting against Japan even before the major war started and became one of the "Big Four" Allies?
Answer: China
Question: What surprise attack by Japan in 1941 finally caused the United States to enter World War II?
Answer: The attack on Pearl Harbor
POW labor helped solve this wartime problem in Louisiana.
What were labor shortages?
Question: What agreement signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan officially created the Axis alliance in 1940?
Question: Name the two main leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States who met with Joseph Stalin to plan the end of the war.
Answer: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt (or Harry S. Truman later in the war)
Question: Besides wanting land, what other terrible plan did Hitler have to get rid of people he thought were "inferior," like Jewish people?
Answer: The Holocaust (or the "Final Solution")
During World War II, Louisiana held thousands of enemy soldiers who helped ease farm labor shortages while being protected by international law.
Who were prisoners of war (POWs)?