Leaders
This German dictator was called the Fuhrer.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
The nation of the Sudetenland, conquered by Germany?
What is Czechoslovakia?
June 6, 1944.
What is D-Day?
The front where the Red Army fought the German army.
What is the eastern front?
The emperor of Japan.
Who was Hirohito?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who was president of the United States?
German air raids on British cities.
What is the Battle of Britain?
December 7, 1941.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
UK leaders gave in to Hitler's demands, hoping to avoid war.
What is appeasement?
In his speech asking Congress to declare war, Roosevelt predicted the date of the Attack on Pearl Harbor would live on in this way.
What is infamy?
He led the British to victory.
Who was Winston Churchill?
German submarines.
What are u-boats?
The German loss in the cold, Russian winter.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
The French beach town where 160,000 Allied troops landed on D-Day.
What is Normandy?
The first Japanese city destroyed by an atomic bomb.
What is Hiroshima?
The strongman leader of the Soviet Union.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
Lightning war.
What is Blitzkrieg?
The country Germany invaded, causing the UK and France to declare war.
What is Poland?
The systematic killing of more than 6 million Jews by the Nazis.
What is the Holocaust?
He ordered the use of atomic bombs on Japanese cities.
Who is Truman?
The Italian Fascist Il Duce.
Who was Benito Mussolini?
The German Air Force.
What is the Luftwaffe?
First major American victory against the Japanese navy in the Pacific.
Anschluss was the union of Germany and this other German speaking country.
What is Austria?
The strategy of defeating the Japanese one island at a time.
What is island hopping?