The War in Europe
The event that prompted the United States to enter the War.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
The Axis Powers
What are the countries of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
The Allied Powers
What are the countries of the United States of America, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.)
What is the Holocaust?
The German strategy of Lightning War.
What is Blitzkrieg?
The US strategy of pushing Japanese forces back through the Pacific.
What is Island Hopping?
What are reparations?
The TWO British prime ministers that served during the duration of World War II.
Who is Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill?
What is Anti-Semitism?
The turning point battle of the War in Europe.
What is The Battle of Stalingrad?
The event that forced Japan to surrender. (Ending WWII)
What is the dropping of the Atomic Bombs?
A form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens
What is totalitarianism?
The president that took command after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The night when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property.
What is May 8th, 1945?
The turning point of the War in the Pacific.
What is The Battle of Midway?
An allied policy of allowing Europe's fascist dictators to achieve gains in power in order to avoid conflict.
What is appeasement?
The American general who led the war in the Pacific. (Island Hopping)
Who is General Douglas A. McArthur?
The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
The reason why there was tension between the Soviet Union and United States post WWII.
What is the belief that both countries were a threat to the other's security
The Date of V-J Day.
What is September 2nd, 1945?
The goals of all three totalitarian, axis powered leaders.
Hitler: World domination & a "master" race.
Mussolini: A new Italian Empire stretching through North Africa.
Soto: Control of Eastern Asia and the Western Pacific.
The last defensive battle fought by the allies before entering Germany.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
The timeline/order of events of the holocaust.
Nuremberg Laws --> Night of Broken Glass --> Deportation/Emigration --> Ghettos/Isolation --> The Final Solution --> The Final Stage --> Liberation.