He took over as the dictator of the USSR following Vladimir Lenin
Who is Joseph Stalin?
100
This German war tactic means "lightning war" in English.
What is blitzkrieg?
100
This "night of broken glass" occurred after a Jewish refugee shot a German diplomat in Poland.
What is Kristallnacht?
100
This Hoosier Republican ran against FDR in 1940.
Who is Wendell Willkie?
100
This is the English translation of Hitler's book Mein Kampf.
What is "My Struggle?"
200
Germany, Italy, and Japan agreed to come together to share information long before WWII. This group was known as the _______________.
What is Axis Powers?
200
The Maginot Line ran along the border of these two countries.
What is France and Germany?
200
These laws included taking away citizenship from Jews and forcing Jews with "German sounding" names to adopt "Jewish sounding" names.
What are Nuremberg Laws?
200
FDR and Churchill devised a plan for the British give the US land for military bases if they sent them these.
What are Destroyers?
200
WWII began in this year.
What is 1939?
300
He organized a committee to determine the role of weapons manufacturers in regards to the US entering WWI.
Who is Gerald P. Nye
300
He was replaced by Winston Churchill as the British Prime Minister near the beginning of WWII.
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
300
The majority of extermination camps were located in this country.
What is Poland?
300
The Pearl Harbor attacks by Japan occurred on this date which will live in infamy.
What is December 7, 1941?
300
This is the name of the air battle between the British Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe.
What is The Battle of Britain?
400
Japan attacked this area of northern China to seize resources prior to WWII.
What is Manchuria?
400
Another name for the policy in which Britain and France gave in to Hitler's demands for Austria and Czechoslavakia.
What is appeasement?
400
The final solution was determined at this conference.
What is the Wannsee Conference?
400
This organization was ready and willing for the US to increase aid to the Allies and repeal the Neutrality Acts for further US involvement in WWII.
What is the Fight for Freedom Committee?
400
Name 3 of FDR's "Four Freedoms" shared by the US and Great Britain.
What is Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear?
500
FDR believed it was our responsibility to preserve world peace and felt that world trade could preserve peace; in other words, he wasn't an isolationist but instead a(n) _______________________.
What is an internationalist?
500
This area of Czechoslavakia was coveted by Hitler because the majority of it's people were German.
What is the Sudetenland?
500
This ship full of Jewish refugees was turned away (paperwork) first in Cuba, then by the US and was forced to return to Europe.
What is the SS St. Louis?
500
Gerald Nye and Charles Lindbergh were a part of this isolationist organization at the outbreak of WWII.
What is the America First Committee?
500
This allowed the US to scout and protect the western half of the Atlantic Ocean to ensure protection of British shipments.