Leaders
Dictator of Germany
Adolf Hitler
June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed at Normandy Beach in France
D-Day
Meaning of "blitzkrieg"
Lightning war
U.S. port that was attacked by the Japanese
Pearl Harbor
American and British planes brought supplies to West Berlin for 10 months
Berlin airlift
Who controlled South Korea?
United States/Allies
Lists of people that were barred from the film industry
Mr. Wintrone's middle name
Donald
US president at the start of WWII
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
Battle that stopped the German invasion of Western Europe
Battle of Britain
Female figure encouraging women to take jobs during WWII
Rosie the Riveter
Japanese people who were born in the US
Nisei
Name for the divide between the Soviet Union and the rest of Europe
Iron Curtain
Who controlled North Korea?
Soviet Union
Senator who accused many important people of being Communist
Joseph McCarthy
Mr. Wintrone's favorite food
Pizza
Dictator of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Largest naval battle in history
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Political belief that government is greater than the people
Fascism
Suicide pilots who crashed into American ships with explosives
Kamikaze pilots
Pact between Western European nations and the US
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Location of the divide between North and South Korea
38th parallel
Congressional organization that held many hearings to determine if people had Communist affiliations
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
City Mr. Wintrone lives in
Mundelein
US president who made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan
Harry Truman
Battle in the Pacific that was the first defeat of the Japanese by the US
Battle of Midway
Act that declared America could lend weapons to any nation “vital to the defense of the United States”
Lend-Lease Act
Japanese forced Allied prisoners to walk to an internment camp
Bataan Death March
Pact between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries
Warsaw Pact
US general who was eventually fired
General MacArthur
Former State Department worker accused of providing documents to the Soviet Union; convicted of perjury
Alger Hiss
Number of siblings Mr. Wintrone has
Three
British prime minister
Winston Churchill
Russian city that was sieged for 900 days by the Germans, but never fell
Leningrad
Name for the German air force
Luftwaffe
The code names given to the US atomic bombs
Fat Man and Little Boy
Conference where Germany was divided into four zones
Yalta Conference
Port where the U.N. forces first landed
Inchon
Married couple who were found guilty of passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union; received the death penalty
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Mr. Wintrone's high school
Luther High School