WWII: Battles & Legacies Review
This is a review game for vocabulary for my 8th Grade U.S. History Students.
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- Holocaust
- Event that describes the systematic mass murder of 11 million civilians by the Nazis during World War II.
- The Enola Gay
- US B-29 Bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Manufactured in Omaha, NE
- V-E Day
- Victory in Europe Day (May 9th, 1945)
- Battle of Iwo Jima & Okinawa
- Battles in the Pacific which experienced heavy causalities on both sides and demonstrated Japanese unwillingness to surrender.
- D-Day
- Also known as the Normandy Invasion, this battle was where the allies invade France
- The Truman Decision
- President Truman's decision to use Nuclear Weapons on Japan in the hopes of preventing a US Land invasion that would cost US Soldier's lives.
- Hideki Tojo
- Leader of Japan during World War II
- Adolf Hitler
- Leader of Germany during World War II
- United Nations
- Organization created after World War II where nations hope to promote World Peace and prevent another World War.
- Axis Powers
- Germany, Italy, and Japan.
- Nuremberg Trials
- War Trials after World War II, that stated that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime.
- Battle of Midway
- Turning point for the Americans fight against the Empire of Japan in the Pacific.
- Island Hopping
- Allied strategy to defeat Japanese by capturing Japanese islands weakly defended to stage further attacks against Japan.
- Allied Nations
- The United States, Great Britain, & The Soviet Union
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Leader of the United States during World War II
- V-J Day
- Victory over Japan (September 2, 1945)
- Battle of the Bulge
- German counterattack on the Allied lines which pushed Allied forces back creating a "bulge" in the front lines.
- Joseph Stalin
- Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II
- Benito Mussolini
- Leader of Italy during World War II
- Winston Churchill
- Leader of Great Britain during World War II
- Navajo Code Talkers
- U.S. Military used Navajo language as a code to transmit messages. Tribe members went with troops to help transmit messages. Only wartime code never broken.
- Kamikaze Attacks
- Japanese suicide pilots who intentionally crashed their planes into Allied Ships.