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WWII pt 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the main reason(s) that Japan decided to attack the American Naval base at Pearl Harbor? | We had put an embargo on them |
| Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco against the Democratic Republic government caused this event which lasted for 3 years? | Spanish Civil War |
| This was passed in 1941 & gave the U.S. the right to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense was vital to the safety of the U.S.? | Lend-Lease Act |
| This is the estimated number of total deaths worldwide that resulted from WWII? | 80 Million |
| This was the code name for the project that developed the atomic bomb? | Manhattan Project |
| November 9, 1938 organized attacks on Jewish businesses & synagogues in Germany-Also known as the “Night of Broken Glass”? | kristallnacht |
| Camps used by Nazis to imprison “undesirable” members of society? | concentration camps |
| He was the leading physicist that helped develop the atomic bomb? | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| This was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." | Holocaust |
| This regiment was a fighting unit composed almost entirely of American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II. | 442nd REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM |
| African American leaders stressed the need for this, victory against fascism abroad and victory against discrimination at home? | Double-V Campaign |
| The atomic bomb was used by the U.S. on the following Japanese cities? | Hiroshima & Nagasaki |
| This was founded in 1945 to promote peace? | United Nations (UN) |
| This-also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the largest battle fought on the Western Front in Europe during World War II; it is also the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. | Battle of the Bulge |
| June 6, 1944 the Allied invasion of Normandy, France-the start of the liberation of Europe? | D-Day |
| This was a Nazi camp designed for the extermination of prisoners? | Death Camps |
| This was a WWII strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others? | island-hopping |
| The willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group? | genocide |
| He was the U.S. President that had to decide on the use of atomic weapons against Japan? | Harry S. Truman |
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