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Hitler's Lightning War
Japan's Pacific Campaign
The Holocaust
The Allied Victory
Europe and Japan in Ruins
100
The French General who attempted to lead the reconquering of France from Britain
Who is Charles de Gaulle
100
The Japanese admiral who called for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Who is Isoroku Yamamoto
100
The term given by Hitler that refers to a specific "race" of people. One that is superior
What is "Aryan"
100
The American general who lead his forces through northern Africa
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower
100
This political party started gaining a lot of support after the end of WWII
What is the Communist Party
200
The charter which later became the basis of the Allies' peace plan after WWII
What is the Atlantic Charter
200
One of the first successful bombing raids on Japan by the US
What is the Doolittle Raid
200
The event in which thousands of Jewish shops and homes were vandalized and destroyed
What is kristallnacht (night of broken glass)
200
The battle on the Eastern front which marked the change from a defensive war to an offensive war for the Allies
What is Stalingrad
200
The process of removing the military from Japan
What is demilitarization
300
this is the term given to the intense night bombings the Germans conducted on Britain in 1940
What is the Battle of Britain
300
The battle that was the turning point in the war on Japan's navy
What is the Battle of Midway
300
The Nazis herded the Jews into these in order to keep them under control
What are ghettos
300
The term used when a country puts all of its effort on fighting a war
What is total war
300
The process of changing Japan to a government run by the people
What is democratization
400
The shore which the French were evacuated from by the British
What is Dunkirk
400
The strategy used by MacArthur that meant passing by many of the Japanese islands in favor of ones less well defended and closer to Japan
What is Island Hopping
400
The term used to refer to Hitler's plan to exterminate all of the Jews in Germany
What is "The Final Solution"
400
One of the final major battles of WWII. After this battle, Germany was quickly defeated.
What is the Battle of the Bulge
400
The trials that were held for the German leaders after WWII
What are the Nuremberg trials
500
The first three countries that Germany invaded
What is Poland, Denmark, and Norway
500
The first battle conducted under MacArthur's new campaign against the Japanese
What is the Battle of Guadalcanal
500
The largest of the German extermination facilities
What is Auschwitz
500
Japanese suicide pilots who would sink ships by flying their planes into them
What are Kamikaze pilots
500
These are the two sites of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki