Terms
Discrimination or hostility, often violent, toward Jews.
What is antisemitism?
Who are Germany and Britain?
The name of the first Japanese city that had the atomic bomb dropped on it.
What is Hiroshima?
The Axis powers.
Who are Germany, Italy and Japan?
The two countries that allowed Germany to gain so much power.
What are Britain and France?
The German word for "lightning war".
What is Blitzkrieg?
The name given to the battle that occured between Germany and the British just before Hitler called off the invasion of England.
The name of the place where the second bomb was dropped on Japan.
What is Nagasaki?
Three major Allied powers.
Who are Great Britain, France, Russia, US or China?
The trigger for WW2.
What is the invasion of Poland by Germany?
The attempt to exterminate the Jewish race by the Germans.
What is the Holocaust?
Also known Operation Sea Lion.
What is the Netherlands?
The country that lost the most men from the Axis powers.
What is Germany?
The popular Jewish symbol that helped German officers know they were Jewish.
What is the Star of David?
A type of government where the leader is in complete control of every aspect of society.
What is a dictatorship?
D-Day is another name for the Battle of __________.
What is Normandy.
The name of the only port remaining open for the Allies in the German invasion of France.
What is Dunkirk?
The country that lost the most men from the Allies.
The German excuse for the start of WW2, in their opinion.
Any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist and whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights.
What is fascism?
The first battle that the US participated in during WW2.
What is Pearl Harbour?
This part of Canada was where the pilots and other air personnel were trained.
What are the Prairie provinces?
Britain and the other Commonwealth nations were left alone because this Allied nation surrendered to Germany.
Canada's most significant contribution to WW2.
What is the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?