This person was president of the United States during most of WWII?
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
This man took over as Prime Minister after Neville Chamberlain. He led the British people through the war.
Who was Winston Churchill?
100
This man was the fascist leader of Germany during the war.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
100
This is the nickname of Japanese pilots who would commit suicide by flying their planes into Allied targets.
Who were the kamikazes?
100
This is the name of the agreement that ended WWI and humiliated Germany by forcing that country to pay reparations, give up land, and reduce the size of its military.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
200
This general was leader of the entire European war theater, and he later became president of the United States.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
200
This man was an unlikely ally. He was the leader of a communist country, and millions of his people died in forced labor prisons.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
200
This man was the Minister of Propaganda in Germany.
Who was Joseph Goebbels?
200
This man was the WWII prime minister of Japan.
Who was Hideki Tojo?
200
This was the event that caused France and Britain to declare war against Germany.
What was Hitler's invasion of Poland?
300
These two men were major generals in the war. One led the U.S. Army at the Battle of the Bulge, and the other took back the Philippines. (Name one of them).
Who were General George Patton and General Douglas MacArthur?
300
This man was leader of the French Resistance. He became president of France after the war.
Who was Charles de Gaulle?
300
This man was a medical doctor who performed horrific experiments on Jews in concentration camps. He escaped to Argentina after the war and died a free man.
Who was Joseph Mengele?
300
This man was the head of the WWII Japanese navy.
Who was Admiral Yamamoto?
300
This is the name of the German air campaign that destroyed so much of London.
What was the Battle of Britain?
400
This man led the team of scientists who developed the atomic bomb in New Mexico.
Who was Robert Oppenheimer?
400
This woman was actually an American, but she was rejected for service by our State Department. She worked as a spy in France for the British.
Who was Virginia Hall?
400
This man was head of the Luftwaffe (German air force).
Who was Hermann Goering?
400
These Americans used their tribal language to help the United States defeat the Japanese.
Who were the Codetalkers?
400
This is the event that resulted in the extermination of 1/3 of the Jewish population as well as numerous other people who Hitler saw as unfit.
What was the Holocaust?
500
This is the man who took over when Roosevelt died. He made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
Who was Harry Truman?
500
This little girl was a moral leader. She kept a diary while hidden in an attic in the Netherlands. She died in a concentration camp.
Who was Anne Frank?
500
This is a trick question. This person is the CURRENT chancellor of Germany.
Who is Angela Merkel?
500
This guy was an American journalist who was killed in Japan while reporting on the war.
Who was Ernie Pyle?
500
This event brought the United States into the war.