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  • What three countries were a part of the Allied powers?
    United States of America, Great Britain, Soviet Russia
  • What is anti-Semitism?
    Aggressive behavior or hate towards Jews simply because they are Jewish
  • Who were the Navajo code talkers?
    Native Americans who used their language to send coded messages during the island hopping campaign
  • Who was Great Britain's leader during World War II?
    Winston Churchill
  • Who were the Tuskegee airmen?
    African Americans who were part of a program to fly and repair combat aircraft
  • Who was Japan's leader during World War II?
    Hideki Tojo
  • What country dropped two atomic bombs on Japan?
    United States of America
  • What three countries were a part of the Axis powers?
    Japan, Germany, Italy
  • What did the Nazis believe?
    German pride and anti-Semitism
  • What country tried to invade Soviet Russia in the Battle of Stalingrad
    Germany
  • What happened at D-Day?
    U.S., Canada, and Great Britain invaded France to fight Germany
  • Which battle had the Allies and Axis powers fighting each other on boats in the ocean?
    Battle of the Atlantic
  • What battle took place because the U.S. wanted control of an airbase?
    Battle of Guadalcanal
  • What was the Battle of the Bulge?
    Last major Allied offensive against the Axis powers
  • What was the island hopping campaign?
    Japan tried to win control of the islands so they could invade the U.S. by land
  • What battle did the U.S. destroy 4 Japanese aircraft carriers?
    Battle of Midway
  • Who was Italy's leader during World War II?
    Benito Mussolini
  • Why was Pearl Harbor important in World War II?
    Surprise Japanese attack on U.S. where we decided to join the war
  • Who was Alan Turing?
    Invented the first computer and broke the German enigma code
  • Who was the United States of America's leader during World War II?
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Who was Soviet Russia's leader during World War II?
    Joseph Stalin
  • Who was Germany's leader during World War II?
    Adolf Hitler
  • What did women do during World War II?
    Worked in factories, were nurses, made supplies, did secretary work for the military, etc.
  • What was the Holocaust?
    murder of 6 million Jewish people by Adolf Hitler
  • Why did Germany bomb London during the London Blitz?
    They tried to win control of the skies
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