Key Battles
Invasion of France by the Allies on June 6, 1944
What is D-Day?
What is Nuremberg Laws?
Who were the major superpowers in the Cold War?
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
The three main Axis Powers.
The event that started WWII when this country was invaded.
What is Poland?
Germany's biggest defeat in the Soviet Union due to extreme weather conditions.
What is The Battle of Stalingrad?
The Nazis plan to exterminate the Jewish population.
The organization created after WWII to maintain peace.
What is the United Nations?
The leader of the Soviet Union during WWII.
The U.S entered the war after this attack on December 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The day Germany officially surrenders.
What is V-E Day?
How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?
6 million
The reason WWII is called the "Unnecessary War".
What is appeasement?
The two major alliances fighting in WWII.
What are the Allies and Axis Powers?
Rapid bombing raids
What is Blitzkrieg?
The Japanese cities bombed by the U.S in August 1945.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The area Jews were sent before they went to concentration camps.
What are Ghettos?
The reason the U.S and the Soviet Union didn't engage directly in the Cold War.
What is fear of nuclear destruction?
The U.S president that decided to drop A-Bombs on Japan.
Who is Harry Truman?
The political ideology of Hitler and Mussolini.
What is fascism?
The day Japan surrendered and WWII is over.
What is V-J Day?
Where many top Nazis leaders were sentenced to death or imprisoned.
What are the Nuremberg Trails?
Countries who pledged to defense to one another.
What is Warsaw Pact?
The military alliance from after WWII with the U.S.
What is NATO?
Ledear who led and caused WWII.
Who is Adolf Hitler?