Terms
"GI" was an initial for this, which was stamped on military uniforms and gear.
What is Government Issue?
The prime minister of Great Britain during WWII.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This expansive, amphibious invasion in northeastern France was the beginning of pushing the Germans eastward.
What is D-day?
The capital of Great Britain, which was destroyed badly during the Battle of Britain.
What is London?
These three nations made up the Axis Powers.
What are Germany, Italy and Japan?
This German term was used as a policy for expanding their territory because of a belief they needed more living space.
What is lebensraum?
This German general was known as the "Desert Fox".
This battle was fought in an industrial railway center in the Soviet Union and was one of the bloodiest battles in WWII.
What is Stalingrad?
What is Egypt?
This was a large complex of concentration camps and death camps located in Poland and run by the Nazis, where over a million Jewish people were murdered.
What is Auschwitz?
Political philosophy that places the importance of the nation over that of the individual.
What is fascism?
Known as "Il Duce", this fascist Italian dictator was overthrown during the war.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
Often referred to as the "longest, largest and most complex" naval battle in history, this is when we saw British convoys being countered by German "wolf packs".
What is the Battle of the Atlantic?
After Germany invaded this Eastern European country, France and Britain made an official declaration of war.
What is Poland?
Who are the Navajo?
These Japanese suicide planes were a last ditch effort to destroy the Allies when pilots ran out of ammunition.
What are kamikazes?
This American general retreated to Australia under FDR's orders during the Japanese advance in the Philippines.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
After gaining control of these two strategic islands in the Pacific, the Allies were in position to take mainland Japan.
What are Iwo Jima and Okinawa?
Southern England is separated from the Normandy coast of France by this body of water.
What is the English Channel?
The U.S. state where the first ever atomic bomb was exploded in a field test.
What is New Mexico?
This term describes how the Soviets retreated from German advances, they destroyed anything useful to the enemy.
What is the "scorched earth" policy?
He was an expert British cryptographer who sped up code breaking using his invention, the Bombe.
Who is Alan Turing?
This Italian island fell in 38 days under the attack led by American General George Patton.
What is Sicily?
In their efforts to expand and build an empire, Japan seized this region of China in 1931.
What is Manchuria?
This act passed by Congress allowed the President to help any country whose defense was thought to be vital to American security.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?