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What started WWII in Europe?
German invasion of Poland
What started WWII in the Pacific?
Japanese invasion of Manchuria, or, Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour.
What year did Hitler invade Poland?
1939
What year was Pearl Harbour bombed?
1941
What did Hitler call Germany and its empire?
The Third Reich
Who was the dictator of Italy, known as Il Duce?
Benito Mussolini
Which country was Germany fighting at Stalingrad?
The USSR
Which two Japanese cities were attacked with atomic bombs?
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
What was the name of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France?
D-Day
The Nazi program for the imprisonment and murder of Jewish people is known as what?
The Holocaust
How was Hitler killed?
Suicide
What was the furthest area south attacked by the Japanese?
Sydney
Where were 80,000 Allied soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese and forced to work as prisoners of war?
Singapore
What is the name of the track where the Japanese advance was stopped and eventually turned back?
Kokoda
Where were the Axis armies decisively defeated in North Africa?
El Alamein, Egypt
Who were the original Axis members?
Germany, Italy, Japan
