Nazi leaders rebuilt Germany's military and denounced the settlement that limited Germany after World War I. Which agreement were they trying to overturn?

In March 1938, German troops crossed into a neighboring German-speaking state and absorbed it into Nazi Germany. Which state was annexed?

At Munich in 1938, Britain and France accepted Germany's demand for a border region of Czechoslovakia. Which region was handed over?

The Munich meeting decided the future of territory inside one country, but that country's government was not invited to negotiate. Which country was excluded?

The August 1939 German-Soviet pact included a secret protocol. What did that secret part arrange?

Before Pearl Harbor, the United States used embargoes, including an oil embargo in 1941, to pressure Japan over its fighting in which country?

In April 1940, Germany expanded the war northward by occupying which two countries?

Germany's attack on Poland used fast-moving armor coordinated with air power. Which term names this style of mobile warfare?

Operation Dynamo rescued hundreds of thousands of Allied troops from beaches and a harbor in 1940. From where were they evacuated?

After Germany attacked through the Low Countries in May 1940, which major western European country surrendered in June?

During the Battle of Britain, which advantage helped the RAF send fighters to meet incoming German raids?

The Blitz was a sustained bombing campaign against British cities, factories, and morale. Which force carried it out?

Operation Barbarossa, launched in June 1941, opened a huge eastern front when Germany invaded which country?

In 1942, Germany's southern offensive pushed toward Stalingrad and another strategic prize. What resource region was a major target?

At Stalingrad, Soviet Operation Uranus changed the battle by doing what to the German Sixth Army?

The Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942 was a turning point in which campaign?

Operation Husky in July 1943 began the Allied move into Italy by landing on which island?

On D-Day, Allied troops landed on Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches in which French region?

Hitler's December 1944 Ardennes offensive aimed to capture Antwerp. What did he hope that would do?

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress declared war the next day against which country?

Why is the Battle of the Coral Sea often treated as strategically important in 1942?

U.S. codebreakers confirmed that the Japanese target called "AF" was which place?

Why was Henderson Field on Guadalcanal worth months of fighting?

What was the main idea behind Allied island hopping in the Pacific?

Why did the capture of the Mariana Islands in 1944 matter to the air war against Japan?

In October 1944, General Douglas MacArthur returned with U.S. forces to which island commonwealth promised independence by the United States?

Why did U.S. forces fight for Iwo Jima in 1945?

During the Okinawa campaign, Japanese kamikaze attacks were directed mainly against what targets?

Which description best identifies the Holocaust?

In Nazi-occupied eastern Europe, what was a major purpose of ghettos?

What were the Einsatzgruppen in the Holocaust?

At the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, Nazi and German state officials met to coordinate what policy?

Which site was one of the Nazi killing centers created in German-occupied Poland?

Why is Auschwitz-Birkenau central to the history of the Holocaust?

Under a December 1942 order, German police deported many members of which group from the Greater German Reich to Auschwitz?

What triggered the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943?

Which Nazi camp was the first major one liberated by Soviet forces, revealing evidence of mass murder in July 1944?

Why did the U.S. government issue ration books with stamps and points during the war?

The symbol Rosie the Riveter represented women who entered which kind of wartime work?

Executive Order 9066 led to the forced removal and incarceration of many people from which community on the U.S. West Coast?

Britain evacuated many children from cities during the war. What danger was this meant to reduce?

Why did the Soviet Union move many industrial enterprises eastward after Germany invaded?

After Stalingrad, Joseph Goebbels's 1943 Sportpalast speech urged Germans on the home front to do what?

Germany's unconditional surrender took effect in Europe on which date, celebrated by many Allies as V-E Day?

The United States used atomic bombs against which two Japanese cities in August 1945?

Japan's formal surrender on September 2, 1945, took place aboard which U.S. battleship in Tokyo Bay?

The International Military Tribunal tried leading Nazi officials after the war in which German city?

Representatives in San Francisco drafted a charter in 1945 for an organization meant to help prevent another world war. Which organization was it?

After Germany's defeat, which four powers received occupation zones in Germany and Berlin?

Millions of people in Europe were outside their homes or countries after the war. What major postwar problem did this create?