The Holocaust
This religious/ethnic group was the main target of the Holocaust.
Jews
This battle was the largest Allied invasion of the war.
D Day
Victory in Europe occurred on this day.
May 8, 1945
This is the title of a Holocaust memoir, penned by Elie Wiesel, which is commonly read by high schoolers.
Night
This was the fascist leader of Germany.
Adolf Hitler
This was the most common method of extermination used in the final solution.
Gassing
This battle saw the fall of the German capital at the hands of the Red Army.
Battle of Berlin
Victory in Japan occurred on this date.
August 14, 1945
This famous journal was penned by a teenage girl.
The Diary of Anne Frank
This communist leader of the Soviet Union first rose to power in 1922.
Joseph Stalin
This was the largest and most deadly concentration camp.
Auschwitz-Birkenau
This attack by Japan launched the United States into World War II.
Pearl Harbor
This is the date that will "live in infamy."
December 7, 1941
This 2005 novel is narrated by death, and follows a young girl attempting to hide books from the Nazis.
The Book Thief
This wheelchair bound US president led America for the majority of the war.
This country housed almost all German controlled extermination camps.
Poland
The Allies invaded this Italian island to help kickstart the liberation of Europe.
Sicily
This was the first year that "the final solution to the Jewish question" was put into action.
1941
This novel follows the American Easy Company of the 101st airborne, and was adapted into a TV show of the same name.
Band of Brothers
This was the German "doctor" in charge of the concentration camps.
Josef Mengele
This is the approximate number of people killed in the holocaust.
7 million
This battle was Germany's final offensive, and the last major battle on the western front.
Battle of the Bulge
Adolf Hitler was first elected into office in this year.
1933
This novel written by Joseph Heller, follows a World War II bomber frustrated by military procedure, and is responsible for a very common phrase.
Catch-22
This Catholic saint was killed in the concentration camps after offering to take the place of another man in the gas chambers.
St. Maximillian Kolbe