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