"Arbeit Macht Frei" (work makes you free) were the words displayed over which extermination camp?
Auschwitz
100
What majority had to work in the American factories during wartime?
Women
100
On December 7th, 1941, the Empire of Japan attacked this American naval base, drawing the United States into war.
Pearl Harbor
100
Before American and British forces led campaigns in Italy and in France, there was fighting in the northern part of which major continent.
Africa
100
Who became the head of the Third Reich in 1933?
Adolph Hitler
200
What are the three technologies of death involved in the holocaust?
Gas Chambers, Railroads, and Factories.
200
What policy did the American government follow before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
Neutrality
200
The Japanese fully invaded this nation in 1937.
China
200
What was the term given to the german advance in the early stages of the war?
Blitzkrieg (Lightning War)
200
This British leader declared that the atomic bomb was "a miracle of deliverance".
Winston Churchill
300
About how many labor camps still existed by the end of the war?
Around 20,000
300
How did the social status of women change during the war?
Women went into the work force instead of staying at home, and instilled more social equality in the work force.
300
What happened on September 2nd, 1945?
The Empire of Japan surrendered to the United States, effectively ending the second World War.
300
Name the 3 major Axis powers and the 3 major Allied powers.
Axis powers- Germany, Italy, Japan;
Allied powers- United States, Great Britain, USSR
300
Who are the two scientists who proposed and lead the Manhattan Project?
Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer
400
What was Kristallnacht?
Hitler's S.S. stormed Jewish homes, burned synagogues, and sent 30,000 Jews to concentration camps.
400
What was Executive Order 9066?
The forced relocation and internment of Japanese immigrants inland.
400
What was the Bataan Death March?
A sixty-five mile march in six days of American and Filipino prisoners of war (over 10,000 of which that died) through the Philippines up to the Bataan peninsula.
400
This battle is considered the turning point of the second World War and halted the German advance into Russia.
Stalingrad
400
This American general estimated that there would be 50,000 American casualties in the initial landing on the Japanese mainland alone.
General Douglas MacArthur
500
What happened at the Wannsee conference in 1942?
German senior officials meet and discussed the implementation of the German final solution to exterminate the remaining Jews in Europe.
500
How did racial prejudice affect the United States during the war?
Military units were kept segregated and Japanese-American citizens were forced to relocate to internment camps inland.
500
What happened on August 6th, 1945?
The Americans dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima
500
According to Joseph Grew, what were the reasons the United States should have gone to war in 1937?
Helping out the Allied forces and stopping the spread of fascism.
500
This Japanese-American citizen challenged the Supreme court over being placed in an internment camp.