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Early war: Europe
Early War: Pacific
Mediterranean Area
Victory in Europe
Victory in Japan
100
French and British troops escaped the German onslaught by evacuating across the English Channel from this French town.
What is Dunkirk?
100
This country won the battle of Midway.
What is the United States?
100
North Africa was home to the first ground combat between these two countries.
What is the U.S. and Germany?
100
This is what happened on June 6, 1944.
What is D-Day (the invasion of Normandy in France)?
100
The strategy the U.S. used in the Pacific.
What is island-hopping?
200
German bombing of British cities in preparation for invasion was called this.
What is the Battle of Britain?
200
Fighting on this jungle island marked the first major land combat between the U.S. and Japan.
What is Guadalcanal?
200
American troops were under siege at this beachhead for months.
What is Anzio?
200
This is why Bastogne was such a big deal.
What is because it was the center of a vital road network.
200
Why we dropped the atomic bomb.
What is to avoid the invasion of Japan?
300
Germany's invasion of this country started WWII.
What is Poland?
300
This is why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
What is the need for raw materials?
300
This monastery on a mountain took the Allies months to capture.
What is Monte Casino?
300
This was the Germans' goal in the Battle of the Bulge.
What is force the Allies to settle for terms of peace?
300
Why Okinawa was so important.
What is it was needed as a staging base for the coming invasion of Japan?
400
This treaty signed after WWI was a major cause of the Second World War.
What is the Treaty of Versailles.
400
This describes Americans' reaction to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is shocked and united for war?
400
These are three reasons why fighting in Italy was so difficult.
What is mud, snowy mountains and cold weather?
400
These were the three countries that had the biggest role in the D-Day (Normandy) invasion.
What is the U.S., Britain and Canada?
400
This is why Iwo Jima was so important.
What is it was needed as a landing strip for B-29 bombers?
500
Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles by doing this.
What is re-arm the military and take more territory.
500
This is what the Japanese hoped to accomplish by disabling the U.S. fleet.
What is a peace treaty with the United States?
500
These are the three reasons for the Allied invasion of Sicily
What is end German domination of Mediterranean shipping, pressure Italy to desert Hitler and distract Germans from the Eastern Front?
500
This is why the Soviets (Russians) were so glad we landed in Normandy.
What is it opened up a second front in Europe?
500
What the Potsdam Declaration called for.
What is the unconditional surrender of Japan?