World War II 1
Who was dictator of Italy?
Benito Mussolini
What date was Pearl Harbor Attacked?
What is December 7th 1941
All black fighter pilot unit during WWII.
Tuskegee Airmen
This was the largest battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
Name three countries that made up the major Allied Powers?
What is France, Soviet Union, and U.S.
Specialized U.S. Marine radiomen in WWII who used their complex, unwritten indigenous language to create an unbreakable code, crucial to winning the Pacific War
Navajo Code Talkers
What country was invaded, which officially started WWII in Europe?
What is Poland
What are two characteristics of a Fascist form of government?
Nationalism, Militarism, Racism, Anti-Communism, Authoritarianism
Who was the dictator who ruled the Soviet Union during World War II
Joseph Stalin
What was it called when citizens received coupons in order to reduce the amount of items consumed during a time of war?
Rationing
Which three countries made up the Axis Powers
What is Germany, Japan, Italy
Provides comprehensive education and training benefits, including tuition, housing, and book stipends, to qualifying veterans, service members, and their dependents
GI Bill
What was the policy called of liberating one island at a time in the Pacific?
Island Hopping
DAILY DOUBLE
What city was the first city to have an atomic bomb dropped on it?
What is Hiroshima?
During World War II, the U.S. government ordered Japanese Americans to live in camps until the war was over. This idea was called ______________.
Internment
U.S. president during the majority of World War II
Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
The American secret plan to create a nuclear bomb before the Germans.
The Manhattan Project
Took on new roles to support war effort, joined nurse cadets and worked in factories to keep up production
Women
This was the location of the Japanese attack against the United States;retaliation for trade embargo which resulted in the U.S. entering WWII.
What was Pearl Harbor?
DAILY DOUBLE
The Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War
D-Day
What were the series of trials that put Germans on trial for crimes against peace and crimes against humanity called?
Nuremberg Trials
Support war effort by increasing food supply in their own front and backyard by growing it themselves.
What is Victory Gardens?
Who was dictator of Germany?
Who was Adolph Hitler
Which country was most upset over how they were treated after WWI because of the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany
Mussolini and Hitler were dictators of a new type of political ideology. What was it called?
Fascism
This country was isolationist until its attack in 1941.
What is the United States?
What was the policy Britain and France used to avoid war with Germany?
Appeasement
The name given to the genocide or systematic extermination of all European Jews and other groups deemed undesirable by the Nazis
What was the Holocaust?
What caused the Japanese to finally surrender?
C. the dropping of two atomic bombs on cities in Japan
Which group was created after the World War II to prevent future wars?
United Nations