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

3. Dunkirk

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

5. Blitzkrieg

6. France and Britain declare war on Germany because?

7. Germany attacks Poland

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

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

10. Reasons Hitler wanted Poland…

11. Wanted to connect Germany and wanted Danzig

12. What was the importance of the Battle of Midway

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

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

15. Pearl Harbor

16. Who was forced on the Bataan Death March?

17. Allied soldiers

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

19. General Douglas MacArthur

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

21. Cut off oil shipments to Japan

22. This happened during Kristallnacht…

23. Nazi’s attack Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues

24. What was Hitler’s Final Solution?

25. A program of genocide

26. This was the largest death camp

27. Auschwitz

28. This is the systematic killing of an entire people.

29. Genocide

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

31. Aryans

32. This was the last offensive of the German army

33. Battle of the Bulge

34. Name two things that civilians did during WWII

35. Scrap metal drives, rationing, working in war industry

36. Why were Japanese put into internment camps?

37. They were falsely labeled as enemies

38. Where were the atomic bombs dropped

39. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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

41. Russian winter and Russian troops

42. This was code-named Operation Overlord

43. D-Day

44. These were Japanese suicide pilots

45. Kamikaze

46. This was addressed by the Nuremberg Trials

47. The Holocaust

48. This person was nicknamed the Desert Fox

49. General Erwin Rommel

50. This person headed the allied invasion of Normandy

51. General Dwight Eisenhower