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100
Fascist dictator of Italy
Who is Mussolini?
100
December 7, 1941
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
"lightning war"
What is blitzkrieg?
100
These deprived Jews of German citizenship among other things.
What are the Nuremberg Laws.
100
The term for war debt.
What is reparations?
200
Communist dictator of Russia.
Who is Stalin?
200
The name for Hitler's 57 day bombardment of London.
What is Operation Sea Lion?
200
Hitler's plan to ruthlessly murder all European Jews. (two-word term - not the Holocaust)
What is the Final Solution?
200
A one party dictatorship that glorifies the military and loyalty to the state.
What is fascism?
200
opposition to all war
What is pacifism?
300
The Prime Minister of Great Britain during most of WWII.
Who is Winston Churchill?
300
The Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944.
What is D-Day?
300
Military strategy used by the United States to gradually move Allied forces north and closer to Japan.
What is island hopping?
300
Germany, Italy and Japan.
What are the Axis Powers?
300
Militants who supported Mussolini
Who are the Black Shirts?
400
The "Big Three"
Who are Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin?
400
The event that marked the beginning of World War II.
What is Germany's invasion of Poland?
400
The act of giving into an aggressor.
What is appeasement?
400
Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions.
Who are kamikazes?
400
This doctrine focused on the containment of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
500
He made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan.
Who is President Truman?
500
The evacuation of British soldiers across the English Channel from France using over 700 small boats and naval ships.
What is Dunkirk?
500
Plan instituted by Stalin to make all the citizens of the Soviet Union more Russian.
What is Russification?
500
Code name for the development of the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan project?
500
The goal of this doctrine was to provide food and economic aid to the European countries decimated by war.
What is the Marshall Plan?