WWII Leaders
The Homefront
Battles of WWII
Key Terms
Ethical Issues
100
This was the Austrian born Dictator of Germany. He implemented Nazism, caused WWII, and the Holocaust.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
This iconic woman appeared on propaganda posters all across the U.S. in order to persuade women to join the war effort.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
100
This was the code name of the massive allied invasion of Normandy.
What is Operation Overlord?
100
This is the hatred of Jews
What is anti-Semitism?
100
This is the first city that the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on.
What is Hiroshima?
200
This person took over as President after the death of FDR and was responsible for the decision to drop the atomic bomb.
Who is Harry Truman?
200
These were the places of temporary imprisonment that Japanese-Americans were sent to for the duration of the war.
What is internment camps?
200
This event occurred on December 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
200
This is a German war strategy that translates to "lightning war".
What is blitzkrieg?
200
35,000 casualties occurred within two minutes after an atomic bomb was dropped on this city.
What is Nagasaki?
300
He was known as "Il Duce".
Who is Benito Mussolini?
300
This term ensured that raw materials such as rubber and oil found their way into war production. It was a form of limiting how much each person/family could get.
What is rationing?
300
This country along with the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, and France were the main forces of the Allies.
What is China?
300
This was a method of bombing used on the Germans to inflicted maximum damage with no clear target.
What is saturation bombing
300
These were laws that denied Jews citizenship and segregated them from the rest of German society.
What is Nuremberg Laws?
400
This person was in charge of American forces in the Pacific.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
400
This person asserted that African Americans would no longer accept second-class citizenship.
Who is A. Phillip Randolph?
400
This major German defeat ended all real plans Hitler had for world domination.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
400
This was the agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan to become allies as they prepared for war.
What is the Tripartite Pact?
400
This is the number of non-Jewish deaths during the Holocaust.
What is 5 million?
500
This person was in charge of the Manhattan Project.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
500
This court case upheld the government's wartime internment policy.
What is Korematsu vs. the U.S.?
500
Eisenhower placed this person in charge of the Allied forces in North Africa.
Who is George Patton?
500
This was the provision of the Neutrality Act of 1939 that allowed belligerent nations to buy supplies and arms if they paid cash and took the merchandise back on their own ships.
What is cash-and-carry?
500
This was the largest death camp created.
What is Auschwitz?