1939 - 1945 - World War II Hangman

Click letters and numbers to answer the question or type your answer in the text box and click Submit. You have 6 attempts to answer each question.

This game has a question on-screen along with the required character spaces. A panel at the bottom provides you with the letters of the English alphabet and numerals zero to nine. Click all the letters or numbers in the answer, or alternatively type in the answer and click the Guess the Answer button. After your sixth incorrect entry, the hangman fills in the answer for you. If you get it right, you're free of the noose and move on to the next question.

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After Hitler signed a pact with the USSR and invaded ______ , WWII began.

The U.S.'s strongest ally, Great Britain, was led by ___________ (last name).

On D-day, June 6, 1944, the Allies landed in France on the beaches of ___________.

WWII ended in the year ______.

The Battle of __________, fought by planes from aircraft carriers, was the first U.S. victory in WWII and marked a turning point in the war.

As factories were converted (or built) to produce war supplies and demand for workers soared during WWII, the Great __________ ended.

The Nazis held Jews (men, women, and children) in _________ camps. Conditions were deplorable and most died or were eventually put to death.

The Japanese had a no surrender martial code, which resulted in some U.S. servicemen having to face ________ pilots.

The Japanese bombed the U.S. Naval base in ______ _______ on December 7, 1941, and soon after the U.S. declared war on Japan.

The U.S. dropped an ________ bomb on Hirsohima, but Japan did not surrender until after a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

The ________ was Hitler's racist killing of close to 6 million Jews.

The _________ Project was the U.S. project which led to the world's first nuclear weapon which was later used on Japan.

A top commander in WWII's European theater who later became the president of the United States was __________ (last name).

Worldwide, over 50 million troops and civilians were killed in WWII. The U.S. lost ~415,000 _______.