2.  5 teams.  Each team gets 10 Xs on the board.  Each team will get 3 questions (one per team at a time)  If you get it right, you can erase any 2 Xs from the board.  Choose a teammate to take a 2 or 3 point shot. If you make it, you can erase 2 (or 3, if 3pt. shot) more Xs.  If you lose all your Xs, you can GAIN 4Xs if you get your question right and make the 2 point shot, or GAIN 5Xs if you make a 3 point shot.  Most Xs at the end WINS.

3.  What happened at the Nuremberg Trials?

4.  Leaders of the Nazis (both military and political) were held criminally responsible for war crimes

5.  What replaced the League of Nations?

6.  The United Nations

7.  What are the Geneva Conventions?

8.  Laws about how a country should conduct war, and how a country should treat wounded soldiers and prisoners of war

9.  Who made use of Concentration Camps against POWs and Jews?

10.  The Germans AND the Russians

11.  What was the Holocaust?

12.  The Nazi attempt to kill ALL Jews under their control as well as those the Nazis deemed undesirable

13.  What was the Kristallnacht?

14.  An attack against Jewish communities and synagogues.

15.  What were Americans on the home front encouraged to do?

16.  -Buy War Bonds -Grow Victory Gardens -Ration Food and Use Ration Books -Conserve Gasoline so more could go to the military

17.  What did the Lend Lease Act do?

18.  Allowed U.S. to sell military supplies to the Allied Powers while America remained neutral.

19.  What happened at the Battle of Britain?

20.  The Luftwaffe (German Air Force) failed to destroy the British Royal Air Force, and Britain was saved from German takeover

21.  What are the characteristics of a totalitarian state?

22.  -Single-party dictatorship exerting control over all aspects of life -Strong, charismatic leader often at the head of the government -State control of the economy -Use of police, spies, and terror to enforce the will of the state -Government control of the media and use of propaganda to indoctrinate citizens -Use of schools and youth organizations to spread ideology to children -Strict censorship of artists, intellectuals, and political rivals with dissenting opinions.

23.  What was the Munich Pact?

24.  A promise by Hitler to stop his military expansion and takeover of other countries.

25.  What happened at the Battle of Stalingrad?

26.  After months of fighting, the Russians turned back the German military, turning the tide of the war on the Eastern Front.

27.  What was the driving factor behind the Holocaust?

28.  Anti-Semitism

29.  What is blitzkreig?

30.  Lightning War. This was Hitler's strategy to take over the world through military means.

31.  What was the Battle of the Bulge?

32.  Germany's last offensive against the Allies.

33.  What is appeasement?

34.  The tactic of allowing Hitler to have the countries he had taking if he promised to stop expanding. This was used by Chamberlain of Britain and Daladier of France with Germany

35.  What was D-Day?

36.  The invasion of France by allies by water. It was the largest amphibious assault ever attempted.

37.  What was Rosie the Riveter?

38.  Government poster that encouraged women to get a job supporting the war effort

39.  What did the Office of War Information encourage Americans to buy?

40.  War Bonds

41.  What were the Nuremberg Laws?

42.  German laws that stripped Jews of their rights and German citizenship