social studies

Describe some of the long-term effects the atomic bombs had on the people, cities, and government of Japan.

80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 were injured. Also the long-term effects of radiation exposure also increased cancer rates in the survivors.

Soldiers from which countries participated in the landings?

Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland.

Adolf Hitler

Austrian-born founder of the German Nazi Party. Hitler's pursuit of aggressive nationalist policies resulted in the invasion of Poland (1939) and the subsequent outbreak of World War II. His regime was infamous for the extermination of millions of people, especially European Jews. He committed suicide when the collapse of the Third Reich was imminent (1945).

the bombs they used were called?

Dropping Fat Man & Little Boy

Why was Normandy Beach selected for D-Day?

During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control.

Benito Mussolini

Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935), joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936), and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.

What two countries signed a pact in 1939?

Germany and the Soviet Union

Axis Powers

Germany, Italy, Japan

Allied Powers

Great Britain, France, Russia

Which two towns were bombed?

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Why was Hiroshima chosen as the bombing site?

Hiroshima was chosen as a target because of its military importance. Nagasaki was bombed a few days later.

What was the result of pearl harbor?

It had been mounting for the better part of a decade, making war seem inevitable.

What was Executive Order 9066?

It was the executive order issued by president Roosevelt authorizing the relocation and internment of Japanese-Americans.

Who attacked Pearl Harbor & why?

Japan atttacked pearl harbor because the japanese thought they would be better able to conquer land in asia if american naval fleet ships were destoryed.

Manhattan Project/Hiroshima & Nagasaki

On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people.

Why was the decision made to use the atomic bomb on Japan?

The decision was made because they thought it was the only way to and war world 2

Describe what happened to the city after the bomb hit?

The devastation was beyond anything seen before. The city was immediately flattened.

What was significant of the battle of stalingrad?

The first reason is that the Battle of Stalingrad marked the end of Germany's advances into eastern Europe and Russia.

Island Hopping

also called Leapfrogging was a military strategy used by the United States. It is where forces only concentrate their resources, setting up military forces/ supplies, on strategically important islands.

Holocaust

also known as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by local collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews—around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe—between 1941 and 1945.

Battle of Britain

as a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces.

Rosie the Riveter

is a cultural icon of World War II, representing the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military.

Navajo Code Talkers

is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the US Marine Corps to serve in their standard communications units of the Pacific theater.

What were the Nuremberg Trials?

it was a series of trials held between 1945 and 1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders, political officials, industrialists, and financiers for crimes they had committed during world war 2.

Why did the US drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

since the US had spent years and millions of dollars developing the weapon, it was going to use it in the war. also President Harry S. Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end.

Why did they make the agreement?

that Germany would exchange manufactured goods for Soviet raw materials. Also in which each signatory promised not to attack the other.

D-Day

the Battle of Normandy. The Battle of Normandy was fought during World War II in the summer of 1944, between the Allied nations and German forces occupying Western Europe

Why did the United States enter World War II?

the united states entered the war was when the Japanese bombed america in the pearl harbor

Tuskegee Airmen

they were the first black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), a precursor of the U.S. Air Force. Trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama, they flew more than 15,000 individual sorties in Europe and North Africa during World War II.

Winston Churchill

was a British politician, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945.