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  • What started WWII in the Pacific?
    Japanese invasion of Manchuria, or, Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour.
  • Who was the dictator of Italy, known as Il Duce?
    Benito Mussolini
  • Which two Japanese cities were attacked with atomic bombs?
    Hiroshima & Nagasaki
  • What year did Hitler invade Poland?
    1939
  • What is it called when a country can force its citizens to join the military?
    Conscription
  • What was the new form of fast warfare using tanks and air support called?
    Blitzkreig
  • What was operation Barbarossa?
    The German invasion of the USSR
  • What started WWII in Europe?
    German invasion of Poland
  • Where was the most infamous Nazi concentration camp located?
    Auschwitz, Poland
  • What was the most important military assest in the Pacific Theatre?
    Naval ships & aircraft carriers
  • What forced the US to become directly involved in WWII?
    The bombing of Pearl Harbour
  • What was the furthest area south attacked by the Japanese?
    Sydney
  • Who were the original members of the Allies?
    The UK, France, the USSR
  • How was Hitler killed?
    Suicide
  • What did Hitler call Germany and its empire?
    The Third Reich
  • What year was Pearl Harbour bombed?
    1941
  • What was the name of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France?
    D-Day
  • Where were the Axis armies decisively defeated in North Africa?
    El Alamein, Egypt
  • The Nazi program for the imprisonment and murder of Jewish people is known as what?
    The Holocaust
  • Which country was Germany fighting at Stalingrad?
    The USSR
  • Who were the original Axis members?
    Germany, Italy, Japan
  • What group of people did Australia intern (imprison) during WWII?
    Japanese people
  • What is the name of the track where the Japanese advance was stopped and eventually turned back?
    Kokoda
  • Where were 80,000 Allied soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese and forced to work as prisoners of war?
    Singapore