British Prime Minister who led his country during World War II
Who is Winston Churchill?
100
Leader of Germany during WWII
Who is Adolph Hitler?
100
Series of attempts by Congress to legally keep the United States from entering the war on either side
What are the Neutrality Acts?
100
Germany's policy of "lightning" strikes against a country's outdated defenses
What is Blitzkrieg?
100
Term for Hitler's imaginary blond-hair, blue-eyed "super-race" of Germans
What is the Aryan Race?
200
This French General led the resistance against the Germans after his country's humiliating and total defeat in the early weeks of the war
Who is Charles DeGaulle?
200
Leader of Japan during WWII
Who is Emperor Hirohito?
200
Roosevelt and Churchill's updated version of Wilson's 14 Points
What is the Atlantic Charter?
200
Hitler and Stalin's agreement to not attack one another
What is the German-Soviet Pact of 1939?
200
Hitler's autobiography which became the bible of Nazism
What is "Mein Kampf?"
300
This Chinese General got little initial help from the United States in his decades-long fight against the Japanese
Who is Chiang Kai-Shek?
300
Leader of Italy during WWII
Who is Benito Mussolini?
300
Roosevelt's policy of exchanging naval destroyers for the use of British naval bases
What is "Destroyers for Bases?"
300
Germany, France, and Great Britain's agreement to allow Hitler to dismantle Czechoslovakia
What is the Munich Pact (Agreement) of 1938?
300
Term for Hitler's reign which was supposed to last "a thousand years"
What is the Third Reich?
400
This British Prime Minister's policy of "appeasement" was popular with the public as it kept the UK out of the war for a while, but was ultimately unsuccessful
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
400
Top military leader of Japan who planned the Pearl Harbor attack and was executed as a war criminal after WWII
Who is General Hideki Tojo?
400
Roosevelt's policy of loaning whatever supplies were necessary for the protection of countries deemed "vital" to the United States' defense
What is lend-lease?
400
Germany's code name for their planned naval invasion of Great Britain
What is "Operation Sea Lion?"
400
Term for Pearl Harbor used in Roosevelt's declaration of War speech
What is the "day of infamy?"
500
Though this champion of US air power was court-marshaled for promoting his futuristic ideas, Americans soon came to realize his prophecies of air-based war were not as crazy as they seemed
Who is Billy Mitchell?
500
Facist General supported by the Nazis who won the Spanish Civil War
Who is Francisco Franco?
500
Roosevelt's foreign policy toward Latin America which called for respect of nations' sovereignty and no intervention "in the internal or external affairs of another"
What is the "Good Neighbor" policy?
500
Germany's policy of territorial expansion, or "living space"
What is Lebenstraum?
500
American gunboat destroyed by the Japanese on the Yangtze River which led to a quick apology by the Japanese and a $2 million settlement