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WW11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gestapo | Germany's secret police |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning Wars |
| Pearl Harbor (When, Why, Who) | December 7, 1941, Because the Americans cut of war supplies, Japan |
| Manhattan Project | The plan for the Nuclear Bomb was made. |
| RAF | Royal Air Force |
| Luftwaffe | German Air Force |
| Appeasement | To give in, Britain and France gave into Germany |
| Isolationism | U.S practiced it to not have another war, Not my problem not my war. |
| Axis | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Allied Powers | Britain, U.S, France, Soviet Union, China |
| Nuremberg Laws | The laws Jews had to follow |
| Nuremberg Trials | Where Nazis were tried for war crimes |
| D-Day | Allied Powers invaded Normandy |
| Pacific Theater | Know as Island Hopping, Japan fighting |
| Operation Sea Lion | Germany attacks Britain |
| Maginot Line | French Line of defense |
| The Big Three and Yalta | Three leaders met, In Yalta |
| Tojo | Japanese Leader |
| Stalin | Leader of the Soviet Union, Communist |
| SS | The army Hitler used |
| 3rd Reich | What Hitler called his empire |
| Anti-Semitism | Hatred of the Jews |
| Operation Barabossa | Hitler wanted to attack the Soviet Union, FAILED |
| Munich Conference | Britain and France telling Hitler no |
| Non-Aggression Pact | Germany and Soviet Union agreed not to attack, but two years later Germany attacked |
| Island Hopping | Taking over islands of strategic places |
| The Dessert Fox | Erwin Rommel |
| Douglas MacArthur | idea of island hopping |
| El Alamein, and importance of North Africa | Gave us another front in the war |