The invasion of this country, using the "blitzkreig" strategy by Germany marked the beginning of World War II in Europe. The USSR and Germany had secretly agreed to split it.
What is Poland?
100
After FDR's death, President Truman decided to drop the Atomic Bomb on these two cities.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
100
Animosity towards Japanese Americans on the Pacific Coast lead the US to send them to these locations.
What are internment camps?
100
Once the United States dropped the first atomic bomb, this competition began with all countries of the world, especially the Soviet Union and China.
What is the atomic arms race?
200
These were passed to keep the US out of foreign wars.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
200
the Holocaust
What was Hitler's "final solution" to the Jewish problem?
200
Commander of the Allied Troops in the Pacific, let the recapture of the Philippines, oversaw the surrender of the Japanese to end WWII
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
200
Japanese-American Citizens born in the United States
What are Nisei?
200
The US, Britain and the USSR planned the end of the war, including dividing Germany, at this conference.
What is Potsdam?
300
A government ruled by a single dictator, Germany, Italy and Russia during World War II are all examples
What is totalitarian?
300
genocide
What is the systematic killing of an entire race or nationality of people?
300
The bombing of this US Naval Base by Japan began World War II in the Pacific.
What is Pearl Harbor?
300
This was done by the government to deal with the scarcity of certain goods like gasoline, sugar, coal, coffee, etc.
What is rationing?
300
Hitler's anti-semetic genocide of the Jewish people was exposed at these trials of his top officials
What is Nuremburg?
400
Hitler and Mussolini's specific form of totalitarian government was named this.
What is facism?
400
The passage of this act marked the beginning of US involvement in World War II.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
While it actually sounds like a great spring break, it was the US Military strategy in the Pacific
What is island hopping?
400
One voluntary and the other mandatory, these are two ways the US paid for World War II
What are war bonds and income taxes?
400
In an attempt to prevent future wars and encourage cooperation between nations, this organization was created
What is the United Nations?
500
At this event, Hitler got to keep the Rhineland and tricked Britain and France into thinking he would stop there.
What is the Munich Conference?
500
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
Who were "The Big Three" who met at the Potsdam conference?
500
Truman believed that over a million US servicemen would lose their lives in a long invasion of Japan after the invasion of this island, leading him to drop the bomb
What is Okinawa?
500
Whether inspirational and patriotic or intentionally racist, the US government produced this to excite all citizens about the war effort.
What is propaganda?
500
The end of World War II marked the beginning of this tension between the US and the Soviet Union