How WW2 started
This is the year Hitler's armies invaded Poland.
What is 1939.
American supplies and sales of this important resource were cut off from Japan in July, 1941.
What is oil.
This large, populated country surrendered to Hitler in June, 1940 after 6 weeks of fighting even though they were one of the main winners of World War One.
What is France.
An event in 1942: the Allies bombed mainland Japan for the first time and it was a psychological victory that did little damage.
What is the Doolittle Raid.
The three main members of the Axis powers.
What are Germany, Japan, and Italy.
When was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
December 7th, 1941.
This was Hitler's first major setback in his war on Western Europe and it was fought entirely in the air.
What is the Battle of Britain.
This major battle in the Pacific was a genius use of codebreaker information and the U.S. sunk 4 Japanese aircraft carriers, turning the tide of the Pacific War.
What is Midway
What is Blitzkrieg.
This policy let the U.S. sell weapons to countries fighting the Axis powers and get paid back later. It was in effect before we joined the war.
What is Lend-Lease?
This invasion by Hitler used 3 million soldiers in 1941 and it might be one of the biggest backstabs in history.
What is Operation Barbarossa.
The river next to Stalingrad that Hitler wanted to cut off access to.
What is the Volga River.
This was the agreement Hitler made before he invaded Poland and it shocked the world.
What is the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact.
This large, heavily populated, rain-forest covered island chain was a colony of the United States in the Pacific and Japan took it over in 1942.
What is the Philippines.
Hitler conquered these Balkan nations so he had a staging ground for invading the USSR.
What are Yugoslavia and Greece.
This strategy allowed the United States to get closer and closer to mainland Japan and allowed them to bypass the most difficult places to fight.
What is island hopping.
Hitler promised these countries to Stalin [plus half of Poland] in a secret part of the nonaggression pact.
What are Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Finland.
Japan took over this island chain in 1942 because it had massive oil reserves and many other resources.
What is the Dutch East Indies.
Hitler conquered these countries after Poland and before France in 1940.
What are Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg.
This is the reason that Hitler and Mussolini wanted control of Egypt and one of the reasons why Hitler's sixth army was near Stalingrad and the Caucasus Mountains.
What is oil.