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100

One of Hitler's first acts was to move troops into and remilitarize this region near France.

What is the Rhineland?

100

This group was sent to internment camps during the war because America questioned their loyalty.

Who are the Japanese?

100

U.S. naval station that was bombed in a surprise attack by Japan and that brought the U.S. into WWII.

What is Pearl Harbor?

100

The genocide of Jewish people and other "undesirables" by the Nazis.

What is the Holocaust?

100
The atomic bomb was dropped on these two Japanese cities.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

200

Germany invaded this nation on September 1, 1930 starting World War II.

What is Poland?

200

The restrictions of goods and food that people could buy during the war was called this.

What is rationing?

200

This nation was forced to retreat in Dunkirk, but managed to prevent it's nation from being defeated by Hitler all throughout the war.

What is Great Britain?

200

This Supreme Court decision decided over the internment of Japanese Americans.

What is Korematsu v. U.S.?

200

This president led the United States through the Great Depression and most of WWII.

Who is FDR?

300

Hitler vowed to end the humiliation brought upon the German people by this document.

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

300

This secret government project led to the creation of the atomic bomb.

What is the Manhattan Project?
300

The allies staged the largest amphibious landing in history and gained a foothold in Europe to start the final drive to Germany during this eventful day.

What is D-Day/the storming of Normandy?

300

This Civil Rights Activist is the father of the march on Washington.

Who is A. Philip Randolph?

300

The United States, before entering the war, contributed by selling weapons to these two nations. 

Great Britain and Soviet Russia.

400

This style of warfare was employed by Germany to quickly defeat their European enemies.

What is Blitzkrieg?

400

Posters and newsreels designed to get American to support certain actions during the war are called this.

What is propoganda?

400
This former Axis power quickly switched sides after Germany broke their non-aggression pact and invaded.

What is Soviet Russia?

400

This event, known as, "The Night of Broken Glass," was a night of violence in Germany against the Jewish people.

What is Kristallnacht?

400

This American pilot dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Who is Brigadier General Paul Tibbets?

500
A region of Czechoslovakia that used to be part of Germany that Hitler demanded be reunited with Germany. This was also Hitler's promised, "last demand."

What is Sudetenland?

500

This group gained new opportunities during the war in the workplace and became the major driving force of American manufacturing.

Who are women?

500

A key island in the Pacific Ocean that took America 3 months to capture. It allowed the U.S. to set up airfields to bomb any area of Japan with it's biggest planes.

What is Okinawa?

500

This Civil Rights leader advised Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on nonviolent civil disobedience, but was removed as the head of the March on Washington due to his sexuality.

Who is Bayard Rustin?
500

This operation was America's first combat operation against Germany in North Africa and made the invasion of Italy possible.

What is Operation Torch?