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Leaders & Dictators
Early Events
Battles and Strategies
Wartime Terrors
The Home Front
100
Germany
Who was Adolph Hitler?
100
The invasion of this country started World War II.
What was Poland?
100
At the beginning of the war, The United States and Great Britain adopted a defeat this person first strategy.
Who was Hitler?
100
The rules of war are stated in this document.
What is the Geneva Convention?
100
The nickname given to women who worked in the factories during the war.
What was Rosie (the Riveter)?
200
Military leader of Japan.
Who was Hedeiki Tojo?
200
This act allowed the United States to lend war supplies to Great Britain.
What was the Lend Lease Act?
200
After this battle the United States began its Island Hopping Strategy (Hint: it was also the turning point in the Pacific Theater).
What was Midway?
200
Japanese Americans were forced from their homes and forced to live in these detention centers.
What were interment camps?
200
Its what the government did to precious commodities like gas and meat during the war.
What was ration?
300
Prime Minister of Great Britain during most of the war.
Who was Winston Churchill?
300
In response to Japan's invasion of French Indochina the USA placed one of these on Japan.
What is an embargo?
300
The allied liberation of Europe began on June 6th, 1944 at this location.
What was Normandy, France?
300

African Americans faced this in the U. S. military.

What was segregation?

300

Movies, plays, cartoons, and advertisements were used to boost what for the war.

What is morale?

400
Leader of the united States for most of the war.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
Who were the three main members of the Axis Powers (Note the USSR was not one of them)
What were Germany, Italy and Japan?
400
Both El Alamein (Egypt) and Stalingrad (USSR) were important victories because they kept Germany from having access to this valuable resource.
What was oil?
400
Japanese atrocity in the Philippines that was a gross violation of the Rules of War.
What was the Bata'an Death March?
400

The American government did this to actual footage of the to keep American moral up.

What was censor(ship)?

500
He made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan.
Who was Harry Truman?
500
The name and date of the "date that will live in infamy."
What is Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) and December 7th, 1941.
500
These two small islands in the Pacific cost a lot of American lives, but it also gave America important access to bomb Japan.
What were Iwo Jima and Okinawa?
500
During the war it is estimated that the Germany killed this many Jewish people during the Holocaust.
What is 6 million?
500

In order to pay for the war Americans spent billions of dollars on these.

What were war bonds?