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The Soviet Union signed a Non-Agression pact with this nation in 1939.
Who is Germany?
100
These trials dealt with the crimes of the Holocaust following World War Two.
What is the Nuremberg Trials?
100
This German military strategy was dependent upon surprise and overwhelming force.
What is Blitzkrieg?
100
This battle is considered the turning point in the war against Japan.
What is Midway?
100
This battle is considered the turning point battle of the Eastern Front in the European Theater of war.
What is Stalingrad?
200
Great Britain and France entered World War Two when Germany invaded this country.
What is Poland?
200
This camp is often considered the most deadly of the Holocaust.
What is Auschwitz?
200
This battle is considered Germany's final offensive.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
200
Atomic bombs were dropped on these two cities.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
200
This document created by Churchill and Roosevelt established the goals of the war, including the rights of free trade and choice of government.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
300
This attack brought the United States into World War Two.
What is the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor?
300
On this night, Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues were attacked by Jewish stormtroopers.
What is Kristallnacht?
300
This term became known as the Allied invasion of German-occupied France.
What is D-Day?
300
These Japanese pilots that honor and sacrifice for one's nation was more important than life in Japanese militaristic culture.
What is Kamikaze?
300
The Japanese took territory possessed by the U.S., British, and France in order to establish this.
What is a Pacific Empire?
400
This act supplied the Allies and benefitted the U.S. economy.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
The goal of this plan was to eliminate all peoples that the Nazis considered inferior.
What is '"the Final Solution."
400
This combination led to the defeat of Germans at Stalingrad.
What is the Russian troops and Russian winter?
400
The reason that President Truman gave for dropping the atomic bomb.
What is ending the war as quickly as possible?
400
This was the title of the head of Government in Japan as created by the new post-war constitution.
What is Prime Minister?
500
This event was described by President Franklin Roosevelt as "a date which will live in infamy."
What is the attack upon Pearl Harbor by the Japanese?
500
This term came to define the genocide that resulted from Hitler's final solution.
What is the Holocaust?
500
Joseph Stalin repeatedly urged Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt to do this in order to relieve pressure on Russian troops and force Hitler to wage a two-front war.
What is invade German-occupied France?
500
This U.S. military strategy involved attacks on islands that were not well-defended.
What is "island-hopping?"
500
The U.S. responded to Japanese aggression in Southeast Asis by doing this.
What is pass an embargo and cut off oil supplies to Japan?