Axis of Evil
The German term for "Lightning War"
What is Blitzkrieg?
The Japanese attack that caught the United States off guard on December 7th, 1941
What is Pearl Harbor?
Japanese forced 60,000 American and Filipino prisoners to walk 55 miles to a prison camp with little food or water. Later categorized as a Japanese war crime, due to the severe physical abuse inflicted on the prisoners.
What is the Bataan Death March
This government program was started after a brilliant scientist wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin work on the weaponizing of uranium. This program eventually produced the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This incredible scientist is responsible for the ideas that led to the development of the Atomic Bomb.
Who is Albert Einstein?
Trying to keep the peace by giving in to an aggressor or bully
What is appeasement?
This was the first decisive naval victory for the Allies in the Pacific in World War II and forced the Japanese to go from the offensive to the defensive.
What is the Battle of Midway?
The Nazi genocide of six million European Jews during the 1930s and 40s.
What is the Holocaust?
This military strategy involved capturing enemy territory in the ocean, then skipping territory and grabbing new territory closer to mainland Japan.
What is Island Hopping?
He shouldered the incredible responsibility for deciding whether or not to drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He met with Britain's leader at the Potsdam Conference in July, 1945 to discuss the occupation of Germany.
Who is President Harry Truman?
What Germany and Italy called themselves (and later joined by Japan).
What is the Axis Powers?
The agreement signed between Germany and Japan, pledging to stop the spread of communism.
What is the Anti-Comintern Pact?
Hitler's answer to the "Jewish Question"--a program of extermination to rid Europe of the Jews.
What is the "Final Solution?"
>>>>>>>DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!<<<<<<< A Japanese term meaning "divine wind" -- Japanese suicide pilots who flew their bomb-laden airplanes into American warships.
What is Kamikaze?
Commanded the D-Day Invasion (June 6th, 1944) and later became President of the United States.
Who is General Dwight D. Eisenhower?
The September, 1938 meeting between Neville Chamberlain (Great Britain), Edouard Daladier (France) and Adolf Hitler, to discuss Hitler's demand to annex the Sudetenland (an area under Czechoslovakia's protection and containing more than 3 million Germans).
What is the Munich Conference?
The League of Nations imposed sanctions on Italy after Benito Mussolini invaded this African nation.
What is Ethiopia?
The teenager who kept a diary while hiding with her family from the Nazis, but was discovered and later died in a concentration camp. Her book is an important part of Holocaust literature.
Who is Anne Frank?
The six month battle for a Soviet city resulting in horrific Russian and German losses. This was a major turning point of the war for Germany.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
The leader of Great Britain during World War II, who personified British resistance during the Battle of Britain, and said of the Royal Air Force, "Never was so much owed by so many to so few."
Who is Winston Churchill?
The agreement signed between Hitler and Stalin, promising never to attack each other, and each would remain neutral if the other went to war.
What is the nonaggression pact?
The 1928 agreement that made war illegal, but was proven useless when Francisco Franco and his fascist Nationalists started the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
What is Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Commander of the SS (Schutzstaffel, the military branch of the Nazi party), who oversaw the systematic extermination of the Jewish people in German-occupied Europe.
Who is Heinrich Himmler?
The 1942 naval battle that crippled the Japanese navy and forced the Japanese to go from the offense to the defense.
What is the Battle of Midway?
Formed the "Free French" government, with headquarters in London. He became the leader of France after World War II.
Who is General Charles de Gaulle?