Pre War Events
Germany gained territory to the south on March 13th, 1938 facing no military resistance.
What was the Anschluss of Austria?
The date of the German Invasion of Poland that started WW2 in Europe?
What was September 1st, 1939?
The event that started the War in Asia or the Second Sino-Japanese War.
What was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident?
The Three Major Powers in the Axis Alliance.
Who are Germany, Italy and Japan?
The Three Major Powers of the Allies.
Who are the United Kingdom, United States of America, and France?
The conference held with Neville Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier, Hitler and Mussolini as part of the First Vienna Award which gave the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
What was the Munich Conference (September 29-30, 1938)?
The new military tactic created by German General Heinz Guderian meaning "Lightning War" which involved tanks piercing and outrunning the enemy.
What was Blitzkrieg?
The Asian Theater of WW2 ends over a span of four days from August 6-9. On August 6th and August 9th the United States drops two atomic bombs on these two cities.
What were Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
The name of the German Invasion of the Soviet Union
What was Operation Barbarossa?
The event that brought the USA into the war.
What was the Pearl Harbor bombing?
On October 3rd, 1935 Italian Forces crossed into foreign territory without a formal declaration of war. Italy finished the campaign with victory in May of 1936.
What was the Second Italo-Ethiopian War?
The treaty signed by the Soviet Union and Germany as a non aggression pact on the surface that contained a secret clause to divide Eastern Europe.
What was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?
The former French colony that Japan occupied following the fall of France. It took them from September of 1941 to July of 1942 to gain full occupation of the territory.
What was Indochina?
The name of the German invasion of the United Kingdom (Failed).
What was Operation Sea Lion?
The operational name for D-Day.
What was Operation Overlord?
The Balkan Country Italy annexed on April 12th of 1939.
What is Albania?
During the German Invasion of the USSR, Germany diverted many forces to take one city. This city held out for 6 months before a major counteroffensive causing German forces there to surrender starting the collapse on the eastern front.
What was The Battle of Stalingrad?
The Asian Theater of WW2 ends over a span of 4 days from August 6-9. On August 8th the Soviet Union breaks their non aggression pact with Japan and declares war on them. The Soviets mobilize 1.5 million troops for this targeted invasion.
What was the Soviet invasion of Manchuria?
A document signed by the Three Main Axis Powers officially creating the Axis Alliance.
What was the Tripartite Pact?
What was Operation Torch?
In 1932 the Japanese established a puppet state over this region following a strategic bombing operation and swift military takeover.
What is the invasion of Menchukou?
The final German counteroffensive of the war on the Western front from December 16th, 1944 to January 26th, 1945 following the liberation of Paris which became the deadliest battle of the war from a casualties perspective for the Americans.
What was The Battle of the Bulge?
Japanese conquests from January to May 1942 to gain access to resources needed to keep the war machine running against China and America. (There's 5)(+100 pts per one you get right)
What were the invasions of the Philippines, Burma, Malaya, New Guinea (part of Australia), and the Dutch East Indies?
The name of the German invasion of Denmark and Norway.
What was Operation Weserubung?
The evacuation of 300,000 British soldiers from Dunkirk.
What was Operation Dynamo?