The event that made Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
What is the German invasion of Poland?
100
This was an alleged spy organization in the United States.
What is the Fifth Column?
100
The three countries that were part of the Axis powers.
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
100
The groups of people targeted for internment in America.
What are Japanese/Japanese-Americans, Germans/German-Americans, and Italians/Italian-Americans.
200
Mussolini's political ideology.
What is fascism?
200
American refusal to enter World War II.
What is isolationism?
200
The government organization that told businesses what to make during World War II.
What is the War Productions Board?
200
The four countries that were part of the Allied powers.
What are the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union?
200
The largest concentration camp run by the Nazis.
What is Auschwitz?
300
The leader of Japan during most of Wold War II.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
300
FDR explained how world peace was threatened, the benefits of peace, and how to achieve peace in this 1937 speech.
What is the Quarantine Speech?
300
The theory that FDR knew Japan was going to attack the United States but did nothing because he wanted the U.S. to enter the war in order to end the Great Depression.
What is the Backdoor to War theory?
300
This was the bloodiest battle of World War II.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
300
The approximate number of people killed in the Holocaust.
What is 13 million?
400
The political ideology of Joseph Stalin.
What is communism?
400
This Act established the first peacetime draft in the United States.
What is the Selective Service Act?
400
A series of riots between white sailors and Mexican Americans.
What are the Zoot Suit Riots?
400
The operation where the Allies attacked the "soft underbelly" of Europe.
What is Operation Open Torch?
400
The groups of people targeted in the Holocaust.
What are Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, Poles, homosexuals, political prisoners, foreign immigrants, Gypsies, handicapped people, alcoholics, and prostitutes (among many others)?
500
Germany was forced to give up its overseas possessions, limit the size of its army/navy, give up territory to create new nations, admit all guilt for World War I, and pay $33 billion in reparations as part of this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
500
The event that happened on December 7, 1941.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
500
The number of women who entered the workforce during World War II (a 50% increase in pre-war numbers).
What is 6 million?
500
The project that developed the atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
What is the Manhattan Project?
500
The Supreme Court decision that ruled American internment was constitutional.