Potpourri

Allies are trapped in this French port city by German troops during the Battle of France

Dunkirk

Surprise attack with fast moving airplanes and tanks followed by massive infantry

Blitzkrieg

France and Britain declare war on Germany because?

Germany attacks Poland

How did the Lend-Lease Act benefit the U.S.A.?

U.S. was able to get more $ bettering it’s economy

Reasons Hitler wanted Poland…

Wanted to connect Germany and wanted Danzig

What was the importance of the Battle of Midway

Turned the tide of the war in favor of the U.S.A.

What was FDR talking about in his speech, “a date which will live in infamy?”

Pearl Harbor

Who was forced on the Bataan Death March?

Allied soldiers

Who came up with the idea of “Island Hopping?”

General Douglas MacArthur

What did the U.S do after Japan began its conquest of the Pacific?

Cut off oil shipments to Japan

This happened during Kristallnacht…

Nazi’s attack Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues

What was Hitler’s Final Solution?

A program of genocide

This was the largest death camp

Auschwitz

This is the systematic killing of an entire people.

Genocide

This term was declared a “master race” by the Nazi’s

Aryans

This was the last offensive of the German army

Battle of the Bulge

Name two things that civilians did during WWII

Scrap metal drives, rationing, working in war industry

Why were Japanese put into internment camps?

They were falsely labeled as enemies

Where were the atomic bombs dropped

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

What 2 things led to the defeat of Germans in Stalingrad?

Russian winter and Russian troops

This was code-named Operation Overlord

D-Day

These were Japanese suicide pilots

Kamikaze

This was addressed by the Nuremberg Trials

The Holocaust

This person was nicknamed the Desert Fox

General Erwin Rommel

This person headed the allied invasion of Normandy

General Dwight Eisenhower