These economic conditions led to the rise of the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s.
What was: global economic depression, high inflation, and high unemployment?
100
WWII started when Germany invaded this country on September 1, 1939.
What is Poland?
100
This was the night of broken glass.
What was Kristallnacht, when Nazis in Germany torched and vandalized synagogues, and Jewish homes, schools and businesses, killing around 100 Jews (Nov 9-10, 1938)?
100
The British survived this onslaught of air strikes by the German Luftwaffe.
What was the Battle of Britain?
100
The U.S. declared war on Japan after this attack, on December 7, 1941.
What was Pearl Harbor?
200
Hitler violated these two provisions of the Versailles Treaty.
What is: he built up troops, entered the Rhineland, and took Sudetenland?
200
Germany used this type of military strategy to overwhelm Poland and later France.
What is Blitzkrieg?
200
Many Jews living in cities, like Warsaw, became prisoners in these.
What were ghettos?
200
The Allies launched the largest land and sea invasion in the war on this European beach on June 6, 1944.
What was Normandy?
200
The U.S. developed this military strategy to attack Japanese targets that were not heavily fortified.
What was Island Hopping?
300
This happened at the Munich Conference.
What is: Chamberlain appeased Hitler by giving him the Sudetenland.
300
This period lasted from September 1939 until the spring of 1940: France and Britain declared war, but not much happened.
What was the Phoney War, or Sitzkreig?
300
This was the most notorious concentration camp.
What was Auschwitz?
300
The Soviet victory at this costly battle was the turning point in the war on the Eastern Front.
What was Stalingrad?
300
These Japanese suicide pilots crashed their bomb filled planes into U.S. ships.
What were Kamikazes?
400
Germany signed an unexpected non-aggression pact with this leader/country in 1939.
What is Stalin/Soviet Union?
400
The Allies and Axis powers were made up of these countries, at the start of the war.
What were France, Britain, Poland and Belgium (Allies); and Germany, Italy and Japan (Axis)?
400
Hitler called his plan to exterminate Europe's Jews by this euphemism.
What was the "Final Solution"?
400
Germany's last offensive on its Western Front was called this.
What was the Battle of the Bulge?
400
The U.S. dropped the first atomic bombs on these Japanese cities.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
500
Prior to WWII, Japan attacked these two countries.
What were China and Korea?
500
Appeasement, as exemplified in Munich, refers to this.
What is: giving in to demands, as Britain did by allowing Germany to take Sudetenland without a fight?
500
In addition to the Jews, these three groups were also targeted.
Who were gypsies, homosexuals and the disabled?
500
Two significant technological advances that helped the British in its fight against Germany included these.
What was radar (for tracking aircraft) and the enigma (decoding secret communications)?
500
During this Pacific battle, outnumbered U.S. troops destroyed 322 Japanese planes and 4 aircraft carriers, turning the tide of the war.