Leaders $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Battles $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 A-Bomb $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Home Front $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Holocaust $100 $200 $300 $400 $500
D-Day Final Jeopardy
D-Day occurred on what date?
May 8 th, 1945
American President during most of WWII. $100
FDR
Political leader of Fascist Italy $200
Mussolini
British Prime Minister who appease Hitler, offering his the Sudetenland without resistance. $300
Neville Chamberlain
Soviet Dictator/Good Guy/Bad Guy $400
Joseph Stalin
$500 Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII
Winston Churchill
$100 Last German Counteroffensive against American forces in Western Europe
Battle of the Bulge
The Soviets were able to defeat the Nazis single handed in the largest battle of WWII. $200
Battle of Stalingrad
The Allies first goal was to push Hitler off of this continent first. $300
Africa
This is the code name for the largest amphibious attack during WWII. $400
Operation Overlord/ D-Day
Hitlers attack on Poland was called Blitzkrieg in German, but ______________ in English. $500
Lightning War
This was the Atomic bomb Projects code name. $100
Manhattan Project
He was the President who decided to drop the bomb. $200
Harry S. Truman
This was the test site location of the first atomic bomb. $300
Alamogordo, New Mexico
This is the name of the city where the first bomb was dropped. $400
Hiroshima
$500 This was the name of the first bomb that was dropped.
Little Boy
Images that inspired production, victory, bonds etc. were known as? $100
Propaganda Posters
To help pay for WWII, the U.S. relied heavily on? $200
Bonds/War Bonds
$300 During World War II, women and minorities made economic gains, especially in the work force, mainly because?
White Men had left the work force to fight in the war.
The U.S. was able to make an easy switch from peace time to war time because of its isolation both politically and? $400
Geographically
African-Americans who served in the military in WWII often returned to fight __________ this at home. $500
Segregation
What was Hitlers solution to the Jewish Problem? $100
Mass Extermination
$200 This was a center in which prisoners were sent to work.
Concentration Camp
All death camps were located in this European country. $300
Poland
Nazi members/leaders were held responsible for war crimes during these trials. $400
Nuremburg Trials
This was the largest death/concentration camp. $500
Auschwitz