Pre-WWII
Japan
The War
The War
The War
The Holocaust
100
What system of government emphasizes nationalism above the individual?
Fascism
100
Name the military strategy of Lightning War that brought Germany success early in the war.
The blitzkrieg
100
What was the North African country taken for gas and oil?
El Alamein in Egypt.
100
What three countries aligned to form the Axis Powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
100
What event of vandalism of Jewish businesses and Synogogs is shown in the picture below?
Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass.
200
What was the name of the democratic government in Germany after World War I?
Weimer Republic
200
What were the kamikaze?
Japanese pilots who volunteered for suicide missions
200
What was the Rhineland or Alsace Lorraine?
A buffer zone on the border between France and Germany.
200
Why was the Battle of Stalingrad significant?
It was the first battle that put Germany on the defensive after they were defeated by the Soviet Union.
200
What happened to Japanese Americans during WWII?
Japanese American Internment Camps.
200
Name the largest and most feared concentration camp.
Auschwitz
300
What two countries did Germany occupy without opposition from Britain or France?
Austria and Czechoslovakia
300
What happened in 1937 in the Pacific?
When Japanese troops seized China's capital and committed acts of violence against Chinese citizens
300
Who were the two leaders who signed the non-aggression pact in 1939?
Hitler and Stalin
300
The seizure of Iwo Jima and Okinawa were part of the US Pacific campaign known as. . . ?
Island Hopping.
300
Onto what two Japanese cities were the atomic bombs dropped?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
300
What were the walled-in neighborhoods called that Jews were forced to live in?
Ghettos
400
At what event were Hitler's demands appeased by Chamberlain?
The Munich Conference
400
Why did Japan seize Manchuria in 1931?
It needed more natural resources.
400
Why did the Germans only attack England by air?
Because England is an island and they had the best navy.
400
What was the purpose of the bombing raids in WWII?
The goal was to frighten civilians and weaken the morale
400
Why was the Battle of Midway a turning point in the war?
The U.S. established naval superiority over Japan in the Asian Pacific
400
For what two purposes did the Nazis build the concentration/death camps?
1. Forced labor
2. Extermination
500
After WWI, what did Hitler blame for most of Germanies problems?
The Treaty of Versailles
500
What did the Japanese consider their Emperor to be?
The son of God.
500
Give two names for the final battle in Europe shown in the picture
The Battle of Normandy and D-Day
500
How did Italy finally surrender from WWII?
The Italians killed Moussellini.
500
Why did President Truman decide to use the atomic bombs?
He feared that sending troops into mainland Japan would result in too many casualties.
500
What happened to most of the confiscated Jewish people's wealth?
It was given to German citizens.