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The US
100
The day the Allied Powers defeated Japan.
What is V-J Day?
100
Members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party are commonly known as this.
What are Nazis?
100
Its members include Japan, Italy, and Germany.
What is Axis Powers?
100
This type of bombed first developed during WWII is extraordinarily powerful.
What is the Atomic Bomb?
100
Instead of concentration camps the United States had these kinds of camps that it put Japanese citizens in.
What are internment camps?
200
The day that the Allied Powers declared victory over all of Europe.
What is V-E Day?
200
The intentional and systematic murder of an entire race.
What is genocide?
200
Its members include the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United Stated of America.
What is the Allied Powers?
200
The secret program headed by Oppenheimer created a very dangerous weapon.
What is the Manhattan Project?
200
The United States supplied the Allied Powers with materials for war long before joining the actual battle. This is the law authorizing the US to do so.
What is the Lend Lease (Act)?
300
Also known as the Normandy Landings. On this day the Allied Powers began an effort to retake France from a beach in Normandy.
What is D-Day?
300
A genocide that killed approximately 6 million Jews and murdered other races as well.
What is the Holocaust?
300
He was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
300
America dropped atomic bombs on these two cities.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
300
Japan's attack here resulted in the US entering WWII.
What is Peral Harbor?
400
This long and intense conflict cost both Allied and Axis powers greatly. By its end it had depleted German resources sufficiently to cripple the nation's ability to continue fighting the war.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
400
This book was written by Adolph Hitler. It describes his political beliefs as well as his life.
What is Mein Kampf?
400
He was FDR's Vice President. He became President toward the end of WWII.
Who is Harry Truman?
400
Japanese battle tactic where pilots crashed their planes into enemies. It translates as divine wind.
What is kamikaze (kamikazi)?
400
President Roosevelt created this giving the military the authority they need to intern Japanese Citizens.
What is Executive Order 9066?
500
After a nearly losing to the Germans the Soviet Union turned both this battle and the rest of the war around.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
500
Hating Jews.
What is Antisemitism?
500
He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during much of WWII.
Who is Winston Churchill?
500
This battle tactic relies on speed. It translates from the German as "lightening attack."
What is blitzkrieg?
500
The US contributed Supreme Court Justice Robert Jasckson as a prosecutor for these international trials.
What are the Nuremberg Trials?