WWII Test
*The trials that judged the crimes of Nazi leaders at the end of World War II were held in*
*Nuremberg, Germany*
List the three major Axis Powers
- Germany - Italy - Japan
After aligning itself with Germany and Italy, the island country of Japan sought to
- Invade Manchuria - Control Asia and the Pacific
List the three major Allied Powers
- US - Soviet Union - China
How and why was the U.S. home front crucial to the success of WWII?
Americans could now work, despite the great depression, and helped them start getting the weapons ready for the war. Jobs and factories helped the development of supplies needed to win the war, as well as the people drafted in. Without all the jobs and homes that were offered, the war could not have been won without the supplies they made.
Anti-Semitism: Hatred of Jew, guiding Lebensraum: living space for the crowd
Appeasement: policy of giving in to an Genocide: the systematic killing of a
Joseph Stalin: He was an atheist and a Emperor Hirohito: He was symbol of state Adolf Hitler: He indoctrinated children
Benito Mussolini: he was a fascist leader Hideki Tojo: He was a general who
The Supreme Commander of U.S. forces in Europe was
Dwight D. Eisenhower
which of these events occurred first?
Germany invades Poland
The immediate event that started WWII was
Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939.
Where did the United States drop the atomic bomb?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Benito Mussolini was dictator of:
Italy
Kamikaze pilots were used by:
Japan
Despite removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast,
Japanese Americans, or Nisei, served honorable in segregated regiments
Why was the policy of appeasement a failure?
The policy of appeasement was a failure since it only consisted of providing the enemy with what they wanted and then being betrayed and attacked in return.
Thousands of African American soldiers served bravely in a WWII flight crew known as
Tuskegee airmen
Dwight D. Eisenhower: led Allied invasions of Europe Neville Chamberlain: British Prime Minster know
Winston Churchill: Let Great Britain as Prime Douglas MacArthur: Supreme commander of Allied Franklin D. Roosevelt: Declared war on Japan after
"A date which will live in infamy" was President Roosevelt's description of the
bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan
Truman's aim in deciding to drop the a-bomb was to:
end the war and save American lives
The Lend Lease Act allowed the US to:
help the Allies but stay out of the war
The government policy of removing Japanese Americans from the West Coast and other places into special camps was called
internment
Hitler's plan to eliminate all Jews from the countries that Germany controlled was called
the final solution
What was the Manhattan Project?
the plan to develop the atomic bomb
"Rosie the Riveter" was a "poster girl" that symbolized
the role of women in the workforce in the United States
United States citizens at home assisted the war effort in all of the following ways except to
throw out old and useless articles that cluttered their homes
The standoff in negotiations between the US and Japan involved
trading oil and steel for non-aggression in Asia
The main reason that the Soviet Union became an ally of Britain and the United States was because the Soviet Union:
was attacked by Germany in spite of their 10 year non aggression pact