Countries and people
Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII
Who is Winston Churchill
contain coupons that people use to buy a limited amount of food and supplies.
what are ration books
"Little Boy" was deployed on August 6, 1945
What is the atomic bomb
a person who is captured and held by an enemy during war, especially a member of the armed forces.
What is a prisoner of war
Treaty held to discuss the end of WWI conditions
What is the Treaty of Versailles
Germany, Italy, Japan
Who are the Axis Powers
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.
What is propaganda
the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
What is genocide
an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
What is the United Nations
Precursor to the United Nations.
What was the League of Nations (1919)
A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.
What was the Manhattan Project
Japanese attacked US fleet in Hawaii causing USA to enter WW2
What is Pearl Harbour
restriction on access to ideas and information
What is censorship
compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
What is conscription
Communist dictator of the Soviet Union during WWII
Who is Joseph Stalin
A set of international standards of conduct for treating prisoners of war, established in 1929
What is the Geneva Convention
415km railway between Thailand and Burma that was built by war prisoners of Japan in WWII
What is the Thai Burma Railway
A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition
What is Fascism
A German machine designed to hide their sensitive communications from potential enemies.
What is the Enigma Machine
American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II.
Who is Douglas Macarthur
The technique of encoding and decoding information to protect it from unauthorized access or interference.
What is cryptography (code breaking)
This defeat was a huge blow to British morale. It showed that the Japanese were capable of defeating the strongest resources of British navy and that Singapore was not as safe as everyone had thought.
the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics
What is eugenics
Jane
What is Ms Elliott's middle name