Beginning of WWII
WWII began when Germany invaded this country.
What is Poland?
This is the name of the invasion by Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy, France.
What is D-Day?
This strategy used by the US to capture some Japanese-held islands while bypassing others to reach Japan.
The aftermath of WWII led to the US and USSR becoming rivals, which set the stage for the next 40 years of this "war".
What is the Cold War?
The name of the systematic persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazis.
What is the Holocaust?
This country also invaded Poland with the goal of cutting off the German Army from advancing further east.
What is the USSR/Soviet Union?
The half of France that became occupied by the German army during WWII took this name.
What is Vichy France?
The dropping of the atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities marked the end of WWII. (Must name both cities!)
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
At the Yalta Conference, leaders Churchill, FDR, and Stalin agreed to create this new international organization to replace the League of Nations.
What is the United Nations?
This is the name of the biggest and most famous Jewish concentration camp used during WWII.
What is Auschwitz?
The United States had been practicing this foreign policy prior to WWI and in the years after WWI.
What is isolationism?
This was the code name for the German invasion of the USSR during WWII.
What is Operation Barbarossa?
In this famous American military photo, six marines are seen raising a flag on THIS island in the Pacific.
What is Iwo Jima?
The USSR agreed to help US invade this country in exchange for several Pacific islands.
What is Japan?
The name of the secret research project that resulted in the creation of the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The German army quickly took control of Poland and parts of Western Europe due to this military strategy they were using.
What is blitzkrieg?
Many historians believe THIS to be the turning point in the war in Europe.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
Many historians believe THIS to be the turning point in the war in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?
What is Berlin?
World War II began in this year.
What is 1939?
France believed they were safe from German invasion because of this.
What is the Maginot Line?
This battle is known as Hitler and the German army's last great offensive during WWII.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
This is the date of the Pearl Harbor bombing.
What is December 7th, 1941?
The German city and name of the conference where Truman, Churchill, and Stalin met. In their meeting Stalin and Truman disagreed on elections being held in Eastern Europe.
What is Potsdam?
The first atomic bomb was tested here.
What is the Trinity site / Los Alamos, New Mexico?