Events
This event started the war
What is the invasion of Poland?
President of the United States during the Majority of the war
Who is FDR?
This is where D-Day occurred
What is Normandy, France?
USSr victory after brutal urban fighting
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
The United States war strategy in the Pacific
What is island hopping?
This event led directly to the United States joining the war
What is Pearl Harbor?
Leader of Germany
Who is Adolf Hitler?
These are the two cities that the United States dropped atomic bombs on.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
British victory in North Africa
What is El Alamein?
German war strategy.
What is the Blitzkrieg?
Devastating bombing of the capital of Japan
What is the Tokyo Firebombing?
Communist Leader of the Soviet Union
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The location of the Battle of the Bulge
What is the Ardennes?
Combined air and sea landings on an Italian Island
What is the Fall of Sicily?
Suicide Mission by Japanese Pilots
Brutal march of Filipino and American soldiers
What is the Bataan Death March?
Fascist Leader of Italy
Who is Benito Mussolini?
This country was nearly completely taken over by Germany during the war.
What is France?
Roughly a 900-day attack on a Russian city by Germany but eventually was a defeat
What is the Siege of Leningrad?
Systemic killing of a specific group of people. general term
What is a genocide?
This bombing of a German city was used as propaganda by the Germans
What is Dresden?
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the war
Who is Winston Churchill?
What are Iwo Jima and Okinawa?
Largest battle on the Eastern Front and swung it in the Soviet's favor
What is the battle of Kursk?
Accepting demands of dissatisfied countries for peace
What is appeasement?