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The German word for "lightning war."
What is blitzkrieg?
100
The President of the United States during most of World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
The approximate number of Jews that were killed by the German Holocaust in World War II.
What is 6 million?
100
The date when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and brought the U.S. into WW II.
What is December 7th, 1941?
100

A popular poster with a woman flexing her bicep.

What is "Rosie the Riveter?"

200
Japanese suicide missions where the pilots of airplanes would dive bomb their planes into American ships.
What are kamikazes?
200

The fascist leader of Italy during WWII.

Who is Benito Mussolini?

200
The name of the African American squadron who was vital to the success of the Allied victory in Italy.
What is the Tuskegee Airmen?
200
The date of D-Day.
What is June 6th, 1944?
200

These were transformed into war production plants.

What are car plants?

300

The policy of remaining neutral in the European War.

What is isolationism?

300
The Prime Minister of Great Britain during WW II.
Who is Winston Churchill?
300
The name of the American military's secret mission to build atomic bombs.
What is the "Manhattan Project?"
300
The name given to the fighting that occurred between Germany and the British just before Hitler called off an invasion of England.
What is the "Battle of Britain?"
300

The program that invited over 100,000 Mexicans to the US to work as farm laborers.

What is the Bracero Program?

400
A policy of giving in to another to please them and avoid war or a conflict.
What is appeasement?
400

The communist leader of the Soviet Union during WWII.

Who is Josef Stalin?

400

The number of Japanese and Japanese Americans who were forced into war relocation camps as a result of Executive Order 9066.

What is 100,000?

400
The name of the first Japanese city that had the Atomic bomb dropped on it.
What is Hiroshima?
400

The name of the violence that broke out between Mexican Americans and white servicemen in Los Angeles.

What are the Zoot Suit Riots?

500

A type of government where the leader is in complete control of every aspect of society.

What is fascism?

500

The American hero who sympathized with the Nazis and created the America First Committee.

Who is Charles Lindbergh?

500

The place where the 3 major Allied leaders met in-person for the first time.

What is Tehran, Iran?

500

The name of the US warning to Japan about "prompt and utter destruction."

What is the Potsdam Declaration?

500

The year that the US awarded reparations to survivors of the Japanese relocation camps.

What is 1988?