Causes of WWII
This alliance included Germany, Italy, and Japan.
What are the Axis Powers?
This tactic that Germany used emphasized speed and surprise.
What is blitzkrieg?
This term refers to nations fighting together during a war.
What is an alliance?
This event thrust the United States into the war.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
This term means the destruction of a group of people.
What is genocide?
This is how Hitler died.
What is suicide?
This policy involved giving in to Hitler’s demands to avoid war.
What is appeasement?
This event officially started WWII.
What is Germany's invasion of Poland?
What type of totalitarian dictatorship were the Axis powers?
What is fascism?
This battle was fought in the air between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe.
What is the Battle of Britain?
These locations were used to harshly imprison and kill people in extreme numbers.
What are concentration camps (death camps)?
This nation suffered the largest loss of life during WWII.
What is the USSR?
This term describes Hitler’s goal of gaining “living space.”
What is lebensraum?
The practice of a nation staying out of foreign affairs is called this.
What is isolationism?
This country fell to Germany in just 6 weeks.
What is France?
This is the name of the large invasion of Western Europe that began in Normandy.
What is D-Day (Operation Overlord)?
This refers to Hitler's plan to rapidly exterminate undesirables when the war starts to turn against Germany?
What is the Final Solution?
These two Japanese cities were bombed using atomic weapons.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The combination led to WWII: Treaty of Versailles, appeasement, and the rise of this.
This is the country that Hitler annexed in 1938.
What is Austria?
This military leader ruled Japan during WWII.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
This battle was a turning point in Eastern Europe, where Germany lost to the USSR.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
This is the name of the mobile killing units created by Reinhard Heydrich.
What are the Einsatzgruppen?
This German city was divided 4 ways after the war.
What is Berlin?
This is the demilitarized zone that Hitler sent troops into on Germany's western border.
What is the Rhineland?
This region of Czechoslovakia was given to Hitler.
What is the Sudetenland?
This term refers to a battle where troops have to approach land from the sea.
What is amphibious assault?
What battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
What is the Battle of Midway?
This is the name of the largest death camp used to exterminate undesirables?
What is Auschwitz?
This is the name of the location where war trials were held to hold German leaders responsible for their war crimes.
What is Nuremberg?
What does the acronym W.A.R. stand for.
W= WWI
A= Appeasement
R= Rise of totalitarianism