World War 2 Causes
The three countries originally in the Axis Powers
Japan, Germany, Italy
Surprise invasion and battle in France that killed thousands of soldiers at a beach
Normandy (D-Day)
Name of the African American athlete who shattered Hiltler's claims of a superior race
Jesse Owens
The two cities we dropped bombs on in Japan
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Leader of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Granting potential enemy’s wishes to avoid conflict
Appeasement
Date of D-Day
June 6,1944
Presidents during World War 2
FDR, and Truman
Year that World War II ended
1945
Mass genocide of Jewish People
Holocaust
September 1, 1939 Hitler invades officially beginning WW2
Poland
Attack on US Naval Base in Hawaii.
Pearl Harbor
What was "Rosie the Riveter"?
Battle in the Pacific where the famous picture of marines raising the American flag was taken
Iwo Jima
The Lend-Lease Act during World War II provided military and financial aid to this country
Great Britain
Treaty from World War I that led to World War II?
Treaty of Versailles
the exact date of the attack at Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
Japanese Americans were put into internment camps because of this
Executive Order 9066
Name of the British Prime Minister who leads WWII.
Winston Churchill
Hitler believed that this race is superior to all other races
Aryan
Members of the Allied Powers
United State, Great Britain, Soviet Union
Supreme Comander of the Allied Forces on D-Day
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Secret program to build an atomic bomb
Manhattan Project
The strategy of invading islands that the Japanese defended weakly in the Pacific so that they could use the captured islands to stage further attacks
Island hopping
They made an important contribution to the Allied war effort by encoding military communication in their own language
Who are the Navajo Code Talkers