Leaders
He was president of USA during World War 2
Who was FDR? (Franklin D Roosevelt)
Most of the world was suffering from this leading up to World War 2. Many people lost job and there was a lot of economic hardship.
What was the Great Depression?
These are three of the major Allied powers
What are USA, Great Britain, France, and Soviet Union?
You have to name three of these four
This was used to detect enemy planes and helped Great Britain win the Battle of Britain.
What is radar?
This event led to America officially declaring war on Japan (and the other Axis powers)
What is the bombing of pearl Harbor?
He was the leader of Germany during WW2.
Who was Hitler?
This leader believed that Germans were better than everyone else and that Jews were responsible for all of Germany's problems.
Who was Hitler
These are the three Axis powers.
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
This new weapon ended the war.
What is the atomic bomb?
On this day, America , along with its allies, invaded German occupied France.
What is D-Day
He was the prime minister of Great Britain during WW2?
Who was Churchill?
Germany invaded this country, which caused Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
What is Poland?
This was the first major allied power to be conquered by Germany.
What is France?
Improvement in aviation in the forms of many new airplanes and jets led to an increase in this type of travel after the war.
What is air travel ?
These were dropped on two major Japanese cities to end WW2.
What are Atomic Bombs?
He was the dictator of Italy during WW2.
Who was Mussolini?
This policy is the view that most Americans had at the beginning of WW2. Americans wanted to mind their own business and not get involved in the war.
What is isolationism?
This country had an alliance with Germany until Germany invaded them in 1941, then they joined the Allies
What is Soviet Union.
What was the name of the super computer that was used to help decode enemy messeges.
What is colossus?
This is the policy that the USA had before it's official involvement in WW2. They lent Great Britain war materials.
What is lend- lease.
He was the communist leader of the Soviet Union during WW2?
Who was Stalin.
This is a form of government where the government has complete control.
Italy had this form of government.
What is facism?
This country in Asia that was part of the Axis was led by Emperor Hirohito.
What is Japan?
Development in medicine led to improvement in the the production of this which helps fight infection.
what is penicillin or antibiotics?
This is how the United States fought the war in the pacific. They went from island to island getting closer and closer to Japan.
What is island hoping?