The Three-War War
The name of the U.S. President at the beginning of World War II
Who is "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt"?
This Jewish girl, only 13 years old when forced by the Nazis to go into hiding, wrote a diary about her experience that became famous around the world after her death
Who is "Anne Frank"?
May 8th, 1945, the day that Germany officially surrendered, is known around the world by this nickname
What is "V-E Day" or "Victory in Europe Day"?
The German-born Jewish scientist who began researching atoms in the 1930s
Who is "Albert Einstein?"
The port in France where Allied soldiers were forced to retreat after being pushed back by the Germans
What is "Dunkirk"?
During World War II, this person was the emperor of Japan
Who is "Emperor Hirohito"?
Hitler believed that these people, people with German blood, were smarter, stronger, and better than other people
Who are "Aryans"?
The area in the south of France where some of the French agreed to cooperate with the Nazis
What is "Vichy France"?
August 14-15, 1945, the official date of the end of World War II, is known by this nickname
What is "V-J Day" or "Victory over Japan Day"?
The most pressing job of the United Nations
What is "to try to convince the nations of the world to stop developing atomic weapons and to disarm the weapons they already had"?
The name of Japan's attack on December 7, 1941 that caused the U.S. to join the war
What is "Pearl Harbor"?
This was the only country to act officially in protection of the Jews, by rounding them up and helping them to get to a safer country
What is "Denmark"?
On this day, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in France and began to advance into France
What is "D-Day"?
The nickname the Americans gave to the second atomic bomb dropped over Nagasaki, in honor of Winston Churchill
What is "Fat Man"?
What Winston Churchill called the "worst evil" faced by the British soldiers
What is "German U-boats"?
In this battle, four huge Japanese aircraft carriers were destroyed by a much smaller American force
What is "Midway"?
Hitler's "final solution" to the "problem" of the Jews in Europe
What is "killing them by sending them to live in concentration camps, which turned into death camps"?
The name of the German air force
What is "the Luftwaffe"?
The new organization of "peace-loving nations" formed after the end of WWII
What is "the United Nations?"
The reason why the "Battle of the Bulge" is named that way
What is "the German attack pushed the Allied lines so that they bulged backward, like a capital C on a map"?
What is "The Chinese People's Anti-Japanese War of Resistance"?
The names of two of Hitler's most horrible and most well-known death camps
What are "Dachau and Auschwitz"?
How the Germans referred to their plan to take over Europe: sweeping down the coast of Europe, through the Netherlands and Belgium, and invading France
What is "Blitzkreig" or "Lightening War"?
The reason the decision to use the atomic bomb is still so controversial
What is, "the dropping of the bomb killed many thousands of innocent people, however, it also forced the Japanese to surrender, preventing the massive bloodshed that would come with an invasion"?
One of Albert Einstein's prized possessions, stolen by the Nazis
What is "his violin"?