On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the US Navy Base at this location.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
The Prime Minister of Italy during WWII.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
100
The systematic attempt to rid Europe of all Jews called.
What is the Holocaust?
100
What did women in the work force gain during WWII?
What is Better pay or Better Working Conditions or independence?
100
He was the US General in charge of the Europe and North African campaigns in WWII.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
200
This was a major cause of WWII, it is a political philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied.
What is fascism.
200
This country started out on the Axis side, but changed to the Allies during WWII?
What is the Soviet Union?
200
The battle that was the turning point of Eastern Europe?
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
200
This group was forced into internment camps during WWII in the United States?
Who are Japanese Americans?
200
Prime Minister Churchill and President FDR showed their alliance by meeting and issuing this.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
300
This event caused political instability and economic devastation in Europe, which was a major cause of WWII?
What is WWI
300
The President of the U.S. at the beginning of WWII?
What is FDR?
300
This battle on June 6th, 1944 ed to the liberation of Western Europe?
What is D-Day?
300
Americans at home supported the war by doing this.
What is rationing?
300
This island in the Pacific was strategic for its proximity to Japan and its already existing air strip.
What is Iwo Jima?
400
The name of Hitler’s party in Germany?
What is Nazis?
400
Name the “Big 3” Allied countries and their leaders in 1945.
Who are
United States – FDR/Truman
Soviet Union – Stalin
Great Britain - Churchill
400
This supported the British by allowing them to
obtain American war goods without paying for them directly. Americans also gained military bases in the Atlantic.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
This government agency supervised the production of military goods in the U.S. factories during WWII?
What is the War Production Board?
400
Nazis who committed war crimes were tried here.
What is Nuremberg, Germany?
500
Forbade the United States from selling arms, making loans, or giving assistance to any nation involved in war.
What is The Neutrality Act of 1935?
500
Name the Axis powers and their leaders.
What is
Italy – Mussolini
Japan – Hirohito/Tojo
Germany – Hitler
500
Two historic naval battles that turned the tide of the war in the Pacific. Both were important because the United States halted the Japanese drive to New Guinea.
What are the battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway?
500
WWII brought an end to this in the United States.
What is the Great Depression?
500
These are the two cities that President Truman issued the orders to drop the Atomic Bomb on.