WWII

Question 1

Appeasement

Answer 1

Giving into Hitler’s aggressive acts to avoid war

Question 2

Munich Conference

Answer 2

Allies tried to convince Hitler to stop aggression

He signs a paper saying he will stop

One year later he invades Czechoslovakia

Question 3

Reason for U.S. entering WWII

Answer 3

Japanese surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 4

Turning point of European theater in WWII

Answer 4

D-Day Invasion (Normandy, Operation Overlord)

Starts a war on two fronts

Question 5

Turning point of Pacific theater in WWII

Answer 5

Battle of midway

Sinks Japanese carriers

Question 6

Reason why Japanese surrender during WWII

Answer 6

Atomic bomb on

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

Question 7

WWII Genocide

Answer 7

Mass exterminations

Hitler’s Nazi concentration camps

Holocaust

Bataan Death March

Question 8

United Nations

Answer 8

Replaces League of Nations

Has a military

U.S. joins

Question 9

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 9

Nazi officials are tried before a court and imprisoned or executed

First time world leaders are held accountable for wartime actions