Battles
People
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
100

What is the only battle to ever be fought completely in the air?

Battle of Britain

100

who was "desert fox"?

Rommel 

100

lightning war

Blitzkrieg

100

Selective Service

draft 

100

Eastern Europe under soviet control 

iron curtain 

200

U.S. Naval battle victory against Japan in 1942

Battle of midway

200

Who commanded the Allied forces on the Philippine Islands? 

Douglas MacArthur

200

Attempting to avoid conflict

appeasement

200

militarily dominated government 

fascism 

200

luftwaffe 

German airforce 

300

Germany's last battle

Battle of the Bulge

300

Commanded troops in North Africa

Dwight Eisenhower 

300

discrimination against jews

antisemitism

300

Hitler's plans to kill all Jews 

Final solution 

300

code name for secret U.S. project to develop atomic bombs 

Manhattan project 

400

long fight to control the ocean trade routes between German Uboats and USA

Battle of the Atlantic

400

Led nationalists to form its own government

Francisco Franco

400

to work together with other nations

collaboration

400

restricted areas of European cities 

ghettos 

400

gathering of resources to prepare for war 

mobilization 

500

In which battle did the Allies storm the beaches of Normandy?

D-Day

500

President of the US at the start of WW2

Franklin Roosevelt

500

reducing or eliminating military weapons 

disarmament 

500

organized killing of Jews 

Holocaust 

500

misleading information designed to sway opinions 

propaganda