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This day will go down in infamy. (Full date), quoted by Franklin Delano R.
What is December 7th, 1945?
100
This is the first country that Germany conquered using force. It caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
What is Poland?
100
Women had to work in these because all the men were fighting in the war.
What are factories?
100
These people were perscuted by Hitler.
What are Jews?
100
He led Germany during World War II (full name).
Who is Adolf Hitler?
200
These men would crash their planes into American Ships.
What are kamikazes?
200
These raids were made by German Bombers; this period of the bombing of London was called the blitz.
What is the battle of Britain?
200
This law was made to provide more supplies to build more vehicles for the war.
What is rationing?
200
Hitler became chancellor of Germany this year, starting the holocaust.
When is 1933?
200
This man led the Italians during WWII and helped Adolf Hitler attempt to conquer the World (full name).
Who is Benito Mussolini?
300
This island was essential to American plans of the invasion of Japan, a famous picture was taken by Joe Rosenthal of Marines raising a flag over Mount Suribachi.
What is Iwo Jima?
300
This battle was fought between German and Soviet forces; It is considered the turning point on the eastern front of Europe and is also considered the bloodiest.
What is the battle of Stalingrad?
300
This was ended when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because the US economy was energized. It started in 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
300
The secret police of Germany found and brought Jews to Concentration Camps
What are the Gestapo?
300
This man was the general of the American Army in Europe and later became president of the United States. (Full name)
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
400
This is the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima.
What is the Enola Gay?
400
This invasion of Normandy, also known as D-Day, is code named this.
What is Operation Overlord?
400
These drills were conducted only during World War II in schools to minimize deaths from the Axis.
What are air raid drills?
400
The night of broken glass is when Germans burned Jewish shops, synagogues. Stores were looted, and many Jews were sent to Concentration camps
What is the Kristallnacht?
400
This man was the prime minister of England at the start of WWII.
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
500
This battle was fought between the US aircraft carriers the USS Hornet, the USS Enterprise, and the USS Yorktown and the Japanese Aircraft Carriers the Kaga, the Hiryu, the Akagi, and the Soryu over an island in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Battle of Midway?
500
This battle is considered the turning point of the battle of North Africa.
What is El Alamein?
500
During WWII, what nightly sport was cancelled in New York City in 1942 to prevent German U-Boats from seeing and shooting out merchant ships traveling to England and Russia.
What are night baseball games?
500
This concentration camp is the largest concentration camp built by the Germans during WWII.
What is Auschwitz?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!! (You gain 1000 points for getting this question right) This man led the Free French Armies during World War II.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?