Major Battles
European Theatre
Pacific Theatre
U.S. Homefront
Misc. Vocab

100

This event marked the unconditional surrender of Germany.

What is VE Day?

100

Name three of the major Allied powers.

Great Britain, France, Russia, the US, or China

100

Term that best describes the American strategy in the Pacific Theatre of war.

What is Island Hopping?

100

"Do with less so they'll have enough!"

"Rationing gives you a fare share."

"When you ride alone, you ride  with Hitler."

What is the conservation of scarce resources?

100

Research and development of the atomic bomb

What is the Manhattan Project?

200

What was the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies is WWII?

Battle of the Buldge

200

What were the Axis powers?

Germany, Italy, and Japan.

200

What two cities were destroyed by the USA with the atomic bomb on August 6 and August 9th of 1945

Heroshima and Nagasaki

200

The Supreme court deemed these institutions as constitutional, due to a "military necessity."

What are Japanese Internment Camps?

200

Trials for WWII war crimes held in Germany post WWII.

What are the Nuremburg Trials?

300

This battle marked the turning point in the Pacific Theatre.

What is the Battle of Midway

300

Allied invasion of Normandy, France.

What is D-Day (Operation Overlord)


300

the following quote describes which event:

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one... Now, I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

What is The first atomic bomb explosion?

300

They provided labor in shipyards, and ammunitions factories and manufacturing jobs usually held by white males

What is women/minorities during WWII

300

The commonality between Korematsu v. U.S., Dread Scott v. Sanford, and Plessy v. Ferguson.

What is the denial of basic human rights?

400

The battle that marked the turning point on the Eastern Front.

What is the battle of Stalingrad?

400

This conference outlined the plan for post war Germany.

What is the Potsdam Conference?

400

This nation lost the total number of lives during WWII (16,825,000).

What is Soviet Union?

400

This committee was responsible for allocating resources and directing industrial production during the war.

What is the War Production Board?

400

First successful African American Air Force Regiment during WWII.

What is the Tuskgegee Airmen?

500

The Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in the European Theatre because...

What is Hitler retreating and not conquering Europe

500

Why did Stalin want Britain and the U.S. to open up a second front in France on D-Day?

What is relief on military pressure in USSR.

500

President Harry Truman's justification for dropping two atomic bombs on Japan.

What is ending the war and saving many lives?

500

America's primary role on the defeat of Axis powers during WWII.

What is an "arsenal for democracy" through manufacture of war materials?

500

These two nations emerged from WWII as world super powers.

What is The Soviet Union and United States.