Nazi Germany Road to WWII WWII Battles The Holocaust People & Places Vocabulary Final Jeopardy!

Categories 100 The Great Depression This world-wide economic catastrophe created conditions within Germany and Italy that led to the rise of Hitler and Mussolini.

200 Categories After WWI this document required Germany to take responsibility for the war, pay costly reparations, give up its colonies, and led to the rise of Hitler. Treaty of Versailles

300 Categories This was Hitler’s title as the dictator of Germany, which meant “absolute ruler.” Fuhrer

400 Categories This building was mysteriously set on fire shortly after Hitler became Chancellor. Reichstag

Hitler argued that Germany needed to expand and gain “lebensraum” in the east, which literally means this. Living Space 500 Categories

100 This organization was the idea of President Wilson and created after WWI to try and keep the peace. League of Nations Categories

200 Hitler sent troops to occupy this western region of Germany in Rhineland GERMANY Categories

300 Polish Corridor After WWI this territory was taken away from Germany and given to Poland. GERMANYPOLAND Categories

400 Austria GERMANY In 1938 Hitler annexed this country, which was where he was born. Categories

500 This was the 1939 agreement between the USSR and Nazi Germany to not attack each other and to split up Poland. Non-Aggression Pact Categories

100 Categories This was when the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France on June 6 th, 1944 and opened up a second front against Hitler. D-Day

Japan attacked this large Asian country in 1937 and brutally “raped” the city of Nanking. 200 Categories China

Categories 300 Stalingrad This intense urban battle in Russia halted the German advance and proved to be the turning point in the war between Germany and the USSR.

400 Barbarossa This was the code name for Hitler’s surprise attack of the Soviet Union in Categories

500 Iwo Jima Name the island where this historic event occurred. Categories

100 The primary victims of the Holocaust were from this ethnic group. Jews Categories

200 Genocide This is the attempt to destroy an entire ethnic or religious group of people. Categories

300 Name this massive Nazi death camp. Auschwitz Categories

The trials of Nazi war criminals were held in this German city after WWII. Nuremberg 400 Categories

These were the Nazi mobile killing squads that followed the German army and carried out mass executions. Einsatzgruppen Categories

100 The Japanese launched a surprise attack upon this American naval base on December 7 th, Pearl Harbor Categories

200 Categories Name this man and give one significant fact about him. Winston Churchill

300 Categories Name this French defensive structure. Maginot Line

400 This was the branch of Hitler’s SS that carried out brutality within Germany. The Gestapo Categories

500 Sudetenland Categories Name this region of Czechoslovakia that was given to Hitler because it was inhabited mostly by Germans. Germany Austria Czechoslovakia

This was Nazi Germany’s quick style of warfare in WWII, which literally means “lightening war.” 100 Categories Blitzkrieg

200 Categories This was the US battle strategy to defeat Japan in the Pacific. Island Hopping

No freedom of press, speech, art, religion, radio or textbooks; propaganda. Give THREE possible examples of censorship. Categories

400 Categories This is giving in to an aggressor’s demands in hopes of keeping the peace. Appeasement

British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Hitler at this 1938 meeting in Germany. Munich Conference 500 Categories

This was the German name for the “night of broken glass” when Nazis destroyed Jewish shops in Kristallnacht