WWII Review Jeopardy!

Dictators

100

This dictator's ideology was communism

Who is Joseph Stalin?

200

His March on Rome got him to power in Italy

Who is Benito Mussolini?

300

This dictator's political ideology was fascism

Who is Benito Mussolini?

400

Led the infamous Beer Hall Putsch

Who is Hitler?

500

This man's Great Purge killed millions in the U.S.S.R.

Who is Joseph Stalin?

Battles

100

This battle was the turning point in the European Theater

What is the Battle of Stalingrad?

200

Miracle on the shores of France where British & French soldiers are saved from the oncoming German Blitzkrieg

What is Dunkirk?

300

Hitler's last gamble, tries the exact same thing in winter of 1944 as he did in the French campaign in 1940

What is the Battle of the Bulge?

400

This battle was the turning point in the Pacific Theater

What is the Battle of Midway?

500

This battle was fought only in the air, and included an event called "The Blitz"

What is the Battle of Britain?

European Theater

100

Allied invasion of Northern France, codenamed Operation Overlord

What is D-Day?

200

Germany's first military invasion of WWII, shortly afterwards, Britain and France declare war on Germany

What is Poland?

300

These were the trials that held German war criminals accountable for their actions

What were the Nuremburg Trials?

400

Germany's first big loss in WWII, German forces are pushed back ~100 miles from what city?

What is the Battle of Moscow?

500

Hitler & Stalin sign a secret pact between them, known as

What is the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?

Pacific Theater

100

Germany, Italy, and Japan's alliance=

What is the Tripartite Pact / Axis Powers

200

Japanese atrocity in 1931 in China

What is the Rape of Nanking?

300

The strategy the U.S. used to slowly creep closer to the main Japanese islands

What is Island Hopping?

400

The military trials held by the Americans for the Japanese war criminals

What are the Tokyo Trials?

500

United States dropped an atomic bomb on these two cities

What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Random

100

British strategy towards Hitler before the beginning of WWII

What is appeasement?

200

Hitler's book

What is Mein Kampf?

300

Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin all used this to control their people?

What is censorship/propaganda?

400

Germany's greatest success of WWII was their invasion of this country

What is the invasion of France?

500

Hitler's purge of the SA, where he had his political enemies and opponents killed.

What is the Night of the Long Knives?