People
Places
Things
Events
Concepts
100

Leader of Germany

Hitler

100

United States' naval base in Hawaii

Pearl Harbor

100

Its terms are responsible for the Axis powers' actions

Treaty of Versailles

100

The catalyst of WWII

invasion of Poland

100

'living space' for ethnic Germans

lebensraum

200

President of the US

Roosevelt

200

demilitarized zone between France and Germany

Rhineland

200

Agreement of non-aggression between Germany and the USSR

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

200

Japan's second attack on a US naval base

Battle of Midway

200

Describes the Japanese's level of dedication to their cause

fanaticism/ bushido

300

Leader of Italy

Mussolini

300

Japanese cities that the US used the A-bomb on

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

300

A book that Hitler wrote while imprisoned

Mein Kampf

300

Execution of people with disabilities by the Nazis

T4 project

300

Fast and strategic attacks; means 'lightning war'

blitzkrieg

400

Prime minister of the UK

Churchill

400

Hitler's place of birth

Austria-Hungary

400

A collaborative effort to create the 1st atomic bomb

Manhattan project

400

The largest genocide in history resulting in 11 million deaths

Holocaust

400

The US invading strategic islands in the Pacific

island hopping

500

Leader of the Soviet Union

Stalin

500

A Soviet city where fighting took place for 5 months

Stalingrad

500

Alliance between Germany & Italy

Pact of Steel

500

A battle that liberated France

D-day/ invasion of Normandy

500

Prejudice or hatred towards Jewish people

anti-semitism

600
Emperor of Japan

Hirohito

600

The largest concentration camp located in Poland

Auschwitz

600

Alliance between the three Axis powers

Tripartite Pact

600

Germany's invasion of the USSR

Operation Barbarossa

600

A policy that allowed Germany to invade smaller countries

appeasement