World War II 1
Taking Sides
Key People
Pacific Theater
Potpourri
100

This English Prime Minister believed his appeasement policy guaranteed "peace in our time."

Who was Neville Chamberlain?

100

What date was Pearl Harbor Attacked?

What is December 7th 1941

100

Italian leader during WWII

Mussolini

100
Japanese suicide planes crashed into enemy ships were called?
What is Kamikazes
100

France and Great Britain Declared war on Germany after it invaded what country?

What is Poland

200

D-Day was the code name for which World War II event

What is the Invasion of Normandy/France or Operation Overlord

200

Which country did the Soviet Union sign a Nonaggression Pact with

What is Germany?

200

The dictator who ruled the Soviet Union during World War II.

Who was Joseph Stalin?

200

The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

What is to destroy the naval fleet stationed there in retaliation for embargoes by US against Japan?


200

Millions of Jews were rounded up in Germany and other parts of Europe, and sent to _______________.

What are concentration camps?

300

The turning point of the war in the Pacific

What is the Battle of Midway?

300

Germany was able to field test strategies and equipment by intervening in this war in the mid 1930s.

What was the Spanish Civil War?

300

What President ordered the use of the Atomic Bomb.

What is President Truman

300

The secret plan to create the nuclear bomb was called

(hint: It's named after one of NYC's five boroughs).

What is The Manhattan Project?

300

The leader of Great Britain during WWII

Who is Winston Churchill?

400

Korematsu v. US was a case heard by the Supreme Court that held it was constitutional to hold Japanese in________________________.

What are Internment Camps?

400
Name four countries that made up the allies?
What is GB,France,USSR, U.S.
400

Supreme commander of the Allied Forces on D-Day

Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?

400

The second city on which the United States dropped an atomic bomb.

What is Nagasaki?

400

Name given to the race that Nazis believed was the superior race

What is Aryan?

500

The name for the German annexation of Austria

What is Anschluss?

500
Which three countries made up the Axis Powers
What is Germany,Japan, and Italy
500

In the North Africa, this general came to be known as the "Desert Fox" because of his audacious surprise attacks.

Who is Erwin Rommel?

500

The plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima

What is the Enola Gay?

500

Region of Czechoslovakia annexed by Hitler as his "last conquest"

What is Sudetenland?