Terms
Giving up principles in order to pacify an aggressor.
Appeasement
Codename for the Allied invasion of Normandy France
Operation Overlord
Bonus $$$300. Lightening fast warfare, made use of fast tanks and power air force to attack fast.
Blitzkrieg
Bonus $$$$400 Leader of Germany during WWII
Adolf Hitler
Several months following the invasion of Poland where nothing happens.
Phony War
Daily Double: You may bet any amount up to 2000. (If you do not finish in the positive your team does not get extra credit points)
Why is Russia tough to invade? 2 Reasons.
Bonus $$$$$400 Codename for the Allied invasion of North Africa.
Operation Torch
Soviet Union and Germany sign this in 1939, then both attack Poland.
Nonaggression pact
Bonus $$$400 This was the final battle in the European theater of WWII.
Battle of Berlin
This was built in 1943 in America to house the newly formed Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Pentagon
Place where President Truman announced he had the Atomic Bomb.
Potsdam Conference
Bonus $$$900 This battle marked the turning point in the Pacific theater of WWII.
Battle of Midway
Bonus $$900
The two main British territories the US have to defend in the Pacific.
Australia
New Zealand
Bonus$$$$$600 Codename for the German invasion of Russia.
Operation Barbarossa
Bonus $$$$600 When 250,000-300,000 Chinese civilians were killed by the Japanese in 1937, called this.
Rape of Nanking
Bonus $$$800 This German unit had the most war crimes out of any military unit during WWII.
German 6th Unit
This was the site of the largest tank battle in military history.
Battle of Kursk
Bonus $1200. Russian labor camps.
Gulag
This battle resulted in the most American deaths for the war.
Battle of the Bulge
Bonus $$$$$800 Germans organized tanks into these, made Blitzkrieg unstoppable during the early parts of the war.
Panzer Units
After American and Filipino troops surrender they are taken on this. Kills 10,000 Filipino and 650 American troops.
Bataan Death March
Bonus$$$$ 1500 This is site of the 1st Allied offensive attack in the Pacific theater of WWII.
Battle of Guadalcanal
Name of the German airforce.
Luftwaffe
Bonus $$$1000 The 1st loss of American territory during WWII happened here.
Guam
Name of the best Medium sized tank of WWII
T-34