Unit 6, Chapter 26

14.​The Japanese surrender to the United States was announced a few days after a second atomic bomb had been dropped it was formally signed on the American battleship _________ and occurred on September 2, 19__.

All of the above

6.​The Battle of the Bulge ended serious

German resistance in the west.

11.​In 1939, the first steps toward the creation of an atomic bomb were taken by

Germany(Nazis)

"I have read your extremely interesting report and I agree that the time has come for a review of the work of the Office on New Weapons. I think you had better go ahead and work this out with the Chief of Staff and Chief of Naval Operation - confining the whole thing to a very small number of people. I am returning the report for you to lock up, as I think it is probably better that I should not have it in my own files." -- Memo from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Vannevar Bush, scientist, and director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during WWII 9. The memo best supports which statement regarding U.S. success in WWII? 10. Aside from the factor alluded to in the memo, which was another factor that contributed to victory for the U.S. and its allies in World War II?

It reinforced attends toward a bigger more Beauraucratic federal government

2.​During World War II, the first Axis country to be defeated was

Italy

In 1942-1943, the British and American war effort against the Nazis concentrated on

fighting in Southern Europe.

4.​The 1943 "zoot-suit riots" in Los Angeles

led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suits.

12.​Prior to ordering the use of an atomic bomb against Japan, President Harry Truman issued an ultimatum to Japan to

surrender or face utter devastation.

13.​The primary reason the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945 was that

the Japanese did not immediately surrender after the first bomb was dropped.

3.​Regarding European Jewish refugees, between 1939 and 1945,

the United States refused to accept large numbers of refugees.

8.​In mid-1945, evidence of Japan's desperation to continue the war included

the sending of thousands of pilots on suicide missions, nighttime attacks by troops against American lines and the loss of over 100,000 Japanese lives at Okinawa. All of the above.

5.​In 1942, when the United States interned Japanese Americans in "relocation centers,"

there was no evidence that the Japanese Americans were a domestic security risk.

7.​The 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf

was the largest naval engagement in history.