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Important People
Products of WW2
Battles Events and Places
Definitions
Important Places
100
Leader of the Soviet Union
Who is (Josef) Stalin?
100
New technology that helped to detect aircraft.
What is radar?
100
The Allies began flying supplies into Germany after the war. This event was known as.....
What is the Berlin Airlift?
100
This term means "lightning war."
What is blitzkrieg?
100
The three Axis powers.
What are Germany, Italy, & Japan?
200
This president ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs
Who is (Harry) Truman?
200
The U.S, Canada, and nine European countries formed this military alliance in 1949.
What is NATO?
200
Limiting the spread of communism.
What is containment?
200
Giving in to Hitler's demands for land in order to avoid war would be known as....
What is appeasement?
200
The Sudetenland is part of this country.
What is Czechoslovakia?
300
This German general captured, and then lost, North Africa.
Who is (Erwin) Rommel?
300
This Russian battle was a major turning point in the war.
What is Stalingrad?
300
This Pacific naval battle stopped the Japanese advance.
What is (Battle of) Midway?
300
Another term for a nation dependent upon the Soviet Union after the war.
What is a satellite?
300
Hitler annexed this country because he was born there.
What is Austria?
400
A pilot who crashed his plane into an Allied ship.
What is a kamikaze?
400
The Soviet Union and eight European countries formed this military alliance in 1955.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
400
Polish Jews led an uprising against the Germans in this city. (Hint: We watched a movie about it!)
What is Warsaw?
400
This form of technology allowed ships to find submarines hidden underwater.
What is sonar?
400
Name any 2 of the 5 countries with permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council.
What are the U.S., England, Russia (USSR), France, and China?
500
The leader of England during World War II.
Who is (Winston) Churchill?
500
The nickname given to the division of communist and democratic countries in Europe.
What is the iron curtain?
500
The invasion of this country led to the start of World War II.
What is Poland?
500
The D-Day invasion happened in this country.
What is France?
500
The name of the SECOND city hit with an atomic bomb.
What is Nagasaki?