Show:
Between the Wars/ Rise of Fascism
European Theatre
Pacific Theatre
Results/Holocaust
Miscellaneous
100
Germany, Italy, and Japan are all members of the _____ Powers.
What is Axis Powers?
100
This event is described as a "date that will live in infamy"?
What is Pearl Harbour?
100
This group was tried at the Nuremberg Trials for war crimes.
What are the Nazis?
100
The British Prime Minister during WWII.
Who is Winston Churchill?
200
The leader of Fascist Italy during WWII.
Who is Mussolini?
200
Britain, France, Soviet Union, and the US are all part of the _______ Powers.
What is Allied Powers?
200
The two cities where atomic bombs were dropped.
What is Hiroshima AND Nagasaki?
200
These laws stripped Jews of German citizenship/basic rights.
What is Nuremberg Laws?
200
"Lightning warfare" or aerial attacks that would devastate much of Europe.
What is Blitzkrieg?
300
The economic recession beginning in 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
300
The British and French decision to give into aggression to maintain world peace is called __________.
What is Appeasement?
300
The US adopted the __________ strategy moving from island to island
What is Island Hopping or Leap Frog?
300
The complete elimination of all those the Nazis felt were inferior.
What is the "Final Solution"?
300
The American President during WWII.
Who is FDR/Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
A soviet work camp.
What is a gulag?
400
An allied invasion of France.
What is D-Day?
400
This is the turning point of the Pacific Theatre.
What is the Battle of Midway?
400
This is the largest concentration camp.
What is Auschwitz-Birkenau?
400
The turning point in the war in Europe.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
500
The name for the German government between WWI and WWII.
What is the Weimar Republic?
500
An area of the Czechoslovakia that was given to Hitler.
What is the Sudentenland?
500
While at this conference, President Truman found out that the "Trinity Tests" were a success.
What is The Potsdam Conference?
500
The United Nations was created to replace the basically ineffective _______ __ ________.
What is the League of Nations?
500
This battle allowed the Allied powers to be within striking distance of Japan.
What is the Battle of Iwo Jima?