What is the Allied strategy of capturing an island and using it to leapfrog to the next island?
100
Ration
What is to limit the number of items that are available to people?
200
Dictator
What is a leader who controls by force?
200
A strategy of giving in to demands of others in order to keep peace. (Bonus for an example of this during WWII)
What is appeasement? (Britain and France not fighting when Germany took the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia)
200
The legacy of anti-semitism during WWII.
What is the Holocaust?
200
The decisive action that ended the war.
What is dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
200
The event that finally pushed the United States into WWII.
What is Japanese surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor, HI?
300
siege
What is a military blockade?
300
The country Germany invaded which officially started the war.
What is Poland?
300
The length of time some cities in the Soviet Union were held under siege by German forces.
What is two and a half years?
300
The goal of the Manhattan Project.
What is to build an atomic bomb before the Axis Powers?
300
Two ways the United States raised money for the war.
What are war bonds and raising taxes?
400
a place where Japanese Americans were sent during WWII
What is an internment camp?
400
Circumstances that led Japan to invade Manchuria.
What is economic depression and the need for land and resources?
400
The reasoning behind American troops fighting in North Africa.
What is to get battle experience, to aid the British in that area, and to force Germany and Axis powers to fight on multiple fronts spliting their forces and resources.
400
What President Truman did before dropping the first atomic bomb.
What is warn Japan to surrender?
400
Navajo Indians who used their native language to send coded military messages for the Allies.
Who were code talkers?
500
A large prison camp used to hold people for political reasons.
What is a concentration camp?
500
How most Americans felt about the US getting involved in the war prior to 1941.
What is isolationist or neutral?
500
A description of D-Day
What is the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, June 6, 1944, beginning the Allied push of Axis forces back toward Germany liberating Europe?
500
The conditions for Allied prisoners of war after they were captured at Bataan and Corregidor.
What is forced to walk 60 miles, sick and starving, 20,000 died?
500
Name three Axis Powers AND five Allied Powers.
What is Axis: Germany, Italy, and Japan; and Allies: Britain, France, United States, Soviet Union, and China.