The War Begins
Vocabulary
Major Events During the War
End of War and Holocaust
This and That
100

Along with Germany and Italy, this country was one of the Axis Powers.

What is Japan?

100

The policy of giving in to an aggressive country's demands to avoid war. 

What is appeasement? 

100

These were the two main areas of World War II where fighting took place.

European Theater and Pacific Theater

100

The holocaust was a genocide that mainly targeted this group.

Who are Jews?

100

Biased information used to influence public opinion is

Propaganda

200

The United States was on this side of the war.

What is the Allied Powers?

200

"lightning war"; a sudden and overwhelming military attack

What is blitzkrieg?

200
This major event resulted in the United States entering the war.

What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?

200

As a result of WWII, two new superpowers emerged in the world; The United States and this country.

What is the Soviet Union?

200

This dictator was overthrown by his own people after they captured Rome.

Who is Benito Mussolini

300

This Allied Power joined after Germany broke their non-aggression pact.

What is the Soviet Union?

300

A form of government in which citizens are under strict control by their leaders.

What is totalitarian state?

300

Pearl Harbor or D-Day, which one came second.

D-Day

300

People that the Nazis wanted to exterminate were sent to these.

What are concentration camps?

300

This is the holiday that celebrates the end of the European theater of World War II.

What is V-E Day?

400

This agreement, signed after World War I, was one of the main causes of World War II.

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

400

A ban on trading or doing business with another country.

What is embargo?

400

This was the official name of the operation known as D-Day.

What is Operation Overlord?

400

These people took over the jobs that were left by soldiers going away to war

Who are women?

400

This nation was the first to be invaded and occupied by the Empire of Japan.

What is Manchuria?

500

This country was forced to give the Sudetenland to Germany in order to appease Hitler.

What is Czechoslovakia?

500

A period of low economic activity marked especially by rising levels of unemplyment.

What is a depression?

500

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki and this Japanese city.

What is Hiroshima?

500

Japan, Germany, and Italy surrendered in this order

Italy

Germany

Japan

500
This bomber was flown by U.S. troops, notably piloted by Cpt. Gordon Keith Madson.

What is the B-26 Marauder?