Battles
The British forces stopped the Afrika Korps in July.
What is the Battle of El Alamein?
An American general who was unable to stop Japan's advance in the Philippines.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
American, British, and Canadian troops invaded France on June 6, 1944.
What is D-Day?
A weapon that produces tremendous power by splitting atoms.
What is the atomic bomb?
American and Japanese aircraft carriers and fighter planes clashed here, with neither side winning, the Japanese assaut on Port Moresby was stopped.
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea?
The extermination of an entire group of people is called?
What is genocide?
D-Day is known as......
What is designated day?
A strategy developed by the Allied war planners where Allied forces took only the most strategically important islands, instead of each Japanese-held island.
What is island hopping?
This was the key turning point of the war in Russia because of the German commander who defied Hitler and surrendered.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
American general who came ashore in Morocco and Algeria and helped the British stop the Afrika Korps.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower
After the surrender in the Philippines, the exhausted soldiers were forced to march 63 miles to prison camps.
What is the Bataan Death March?
A Japanese tactic of purposely crashing piloted planes into enemy ships.
What is kamikaze?
On June 4, 1942, Japan started bombing these islands in what they thought would be a surprise attack.
What was the Battle of Midway?
He did not see V-E Day because he died of a stroke on April 12, 1945.
Who is President Roosevelt?
The Germans pushed the Allied forces back about 65 miles in Belgium, creating a huge bulge in the Allied lines.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
A secret program that the Allied scientists had been working on since 1942.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The largest naval battle in history to retake the Philippines.
What is the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
Became president and immediately faced the challenge of winning the war in the Pacific.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
What is the significance of May 8, 1945?
What is V-E Day or Victory in Europe Day?
Hitler and the Nazis attempted to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe in the name of Aryan supremacy.
What was the Holocaust?