World War II Causes
The 3 countries in the Axis Powers
What are Japan, Germany, and Italy?
This was the President in the USA during the majority of WWII
Who is FDR?
The USA mainly fought on which front?
What is Pacific?
The 2 Japanese cities where the United States dropped atomic bombs.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The most well known concentration camp.
What is Auschwitz?
Great Britain and France had this policy before WWII started
What is policy of appeasement?
The USA joined WWII on what side?
What is the Allies was?
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Hitler’s famous strategy for attacking other countries.
What is Blitz?
The Holocaust killed this many Jews
What is 6 Million?
September 1, 1939- Hitler invades this country, officially beginning WWII.
What is Poland?
This event led to the USA declaring war on Japan and joining WWII.
What is attack on Pearl Harbor?
This group of people took factory jobs during the war and helped boost the economy
Who were women?
These are the two sides of World War II
What are Axis and Allied
This was the night of the broken glass.
What is Kristallnacht?
This is what the USA declared as Hitler rose to power
What is isolationism?
Date of the attack on Pearl Harbor
What is December 7, 1941?
Japanese Americans were put into what because we thought they might be spies?
What is Internment Camps?
What was the Allied forces strategy to defeat Japan?
What is island hopping?
Jewish girl who hid with her family from the Nazis for two years. She later became famous for the diary that she wrote.
Who is Anne Frank?
The name for the type of government found in Italy and Germany during WWII.
What is Fascism?
This battle allowed the Allied forces to get in to France and start pushing Germany back.
What is D-day?
This group of African Americans helped break boundaries & fought during WWII
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
This was the plan to build the Atomic Bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
These were the anti-Jewish laws created by Hitler before WWII
What were the Nuremberg Laws?
This caused Germany to go into massive debt and minimized their military
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
This was the turning point of the war on the Pacific front
What was Midway
What did Executive Order 9066 do?
What is sent Japanese-Americans to Internment camps?
This battle was the turning point of the war in Europe.
What was the Battle of Stalingrad?
This symbol is what Jewish citizens were forced to wear as their countries were taken over
What was the Gold Star (Star of David)