History Questions

American volunteer squadron that fought against Japanese forces

Location where Allied troops landed, initiating the D-Day invasion

Group of Navajo soldiers trained in basic communications to relay messages using their language as a code

What date was V-E Day (Victory in Europe)

Nazi general in North Africa who led the Afrika Korps

Succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt and made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan

Forced march of American soldiers in the Philippines where those who fell out of line were killed by the Japanese

Agreement between Britain, France, and Germany that dismembered Czechoslovakia

second-generation Japanese immigrants who joined the military

Campaign focused on assaulting only the most important islands to establish air and naval bases for the drive to Japan

Granted the president sweeping powers to sell, lease, lend, or dispose of war materials to nations vital to American security. Allowed for the refitting or repair of warships belonging to friendly belligerents in the United States

British Prime Minister who led Great Britain during World War II

Marched on Rome in 1922, transforming Italy into a fascist state

Dictator of Germany during World War II, responsible for the Holocaust and believed in the superiority of the Aryan race

Nation created by Vladimir Lenin and led by Joseph Stalin, a major Allied power in World War II

Lenin's new secret police were known as the

On June 28, 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was assassinated in the Bosnian city of

The troops of which country turned the tide of the war in 1918?

The leading exponents and practitioners of Dadaism and Surrealism, respectively, were

Post-Great Depression full employment was achieved in the United States only as a result of