Important People
Holocaust
Vocabulary
America during WWII
Miscellaneous
100

The dictator of Germany during WWII

Hitler

100

About how many Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust?

6 million

100

A ruler with total control and power

dictator

100

Why did the United States enter WWII?

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

100

A person who helps instead of just watching?

upstander 

200

The two boys in the movie who died together in the gas chamber?

Bruno and Shmuel

200

Name at least 3 ways Jewish people were tricked when they first arrived at the camps.

smiling, told temporary, would get stuff back, hot showers, music, postcards, fake nice, etc.  (more can be accepted by Ms. V.)

200

A person or group of people who are blamed for something someone else has done

scapegoat

200

Which Native American tribe created an unbreakable code?

Navajo

200

In the movie who was beaten to death by Lt. Kotler

Pavel

300

Dictator of Italy during WWII?

Mussolini

300

What did Jews have to wear during the holocaust when they went out in public?

Star of David

300

The intense dislike and hatred of Jews is known as

anti semitism

300

Which group of Americans were locked in "internment camps" during WWII?

Japanese Americans

300

Spreading of ideas, rumors, or info for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person


propaganda

400

Dictator of Japan during WWII?

Tojo (also accept Hirohito)

400

Hitler passed several laws that discriminated against the Jews. For example, he declared that all Jews were not German citizens and that Jews could not marry other Germans. These laws were called

Nuremberg Laws

400

political idea where the government controls everything

fascism

400

The first African American Air Force Pilots were the Tuskegee Airmen also called the ...

Red Tails

400

A bullet made out of what starts the atomic bomb?

uranium

500

President during most of WWII?

FDR (also Roosevelt will be accepted)

500

What was the largest concentration camp created by the Nazis?

Auschwitz

500

Before World War II started, Great Britain and France gave in to Hitler’s demands because they wanted to avoid war. This was called

appeasemnet

500

What city in Japan did America first drop an atomic bomb on?

Hiroshima

500

What were the Japanese suicide pilots called?

kamikaze