Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles
WWII Ended in the year _____________
1945
Pearl Harbor is on the Hawaiian Island of _________________
Oahu
6 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the American Navy was able to find and sink 4 Japanese Aircraft Carriers in the Battle of _______________. This event would halt Japanese expansion
Midway
The War in Europe began when Germany invaded _______________ on September 1, 1939
Poland
The Treaty of Versailles made _______________ sign a "Guilt Clause" and accept blame for WWI
Germany
______________ began on June 6, 1945 when the Allies crossed the English Channel and invaded Normandy France, eventually freeing France and marching in to Berlin Germany
D-Day
The __________ launched a surprise attack on the US at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
Japanese
The _________________ Islands were an American Territory in the Pacific before and during WWII. Americans had to surrender this large island group when they were overrun by Japanese forces in March 1942
Philippines
Even before WWII officially began, Germany had been able to take over several European nations and territories. Name one territory the Germans had annexed BEFORE the official start of the War
Austria
Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
Woodrow Wilson
Germans
The Japanese were very successful with their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, BUT they weren't able to completely cripple the American Navy because no U.S. __________________ were damaged or sunk in the attack.
Aircraft Carriers
Japan chose to strike Pearl Harbor Hawaii because it was the home to the U.S. _______________
Pacific Fleet
The League of Nations hopped to avoid war with Axis by using a policy of _________________, or giving the Axis what they desired in hopes it would satisfy their leaders
Appeasement
According to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was expected to keep it's military out of the __________________, the border region between France and Germany
Rhineland
The ___________________ was the top secret American mission to build the worlds first Atomic Bomb
Manhattan Project
The Japanese chose to attack the U.S. on the day of the week that the Americans were least likely to be on alert. Which day?
Sunday
The Japanese were very good at intercepting and deciphering American codes in the Pacific. Eventually, American Indians from the ________________ Tribe created an "unbreakable" code that helped Americans win the war
Navajo
Both Hitler and Mussolini were ______________ meaning that they used racism and nationalism to unify and control their citizens
Fascism
The Treaty of Versailles created a _______________________ which was a group of nations that were committed to solving international problems through diplomacy, not war
League of Nations.
The _______________was the first A-Bomb to be used in combat. It was dropped on Hiroshima Japan on August 6, 1945 from the Enola Gay
Little Boy
famous for a bad reason
As the Americans and other Allies began to push the Japanese out of their conquered islands, the Japanese resorted to suicide pilots called _____________. These young Japanese pilots crashed their planes into the sides of American naval ships causing as much damage as possible to try to slow down the American Navy
Kamikaze
Unlike WWI, The Germans avoided fighting on 2 fronts by signing a "non-aggression-pact" with ____________________ promising to split Poland between the two nations, and not attack each other.
The Soviet Union aka USSR