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S.S. ch. 8 test
Sagorac
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Type of bomb built during WWII that was more powerful tham any built before it. | atomic bomb |
| Prison in which the Nazis enslaved and murdered millions of Jews and other groups during WWII. | concentration camp |
| Government limiting of the amount of food each person in the U.S. could buy during WWII. | rationing |
| Form of government in which individual freedoms are denied and the government has complete power | fascism |
| Leader with complete control of a country's government. | dicator |
| Adolf Hilter | Germany |
| Benito Mussolini | Italy |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet Union |
| Hideki Tojo | Japan |
| Winston Churchill | Great Britain |
| What president died before WWII ended? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Who was the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force? | Benjamin D. Davis |
| Albert Einstein warned the U.S. the WHO were probably working on an atomic bomb. | Germany |
| Island hopping was a strategy used by which American General | Douglas MacArthur |
| What happened in the city of Nagasaki, Japan? | the U.S. dropped the 2nd atomic bomb |
| Who were members of the Allies? | Britain, France, Canada |
| What was the Lend-Lease policy? | The U.S. would let Britain borrow all the military supplies if needed to fight the Axis. |
| What was the Battle of Stalingrad a major turing point int he war? | Because the Soviet army started forcing the Germans to retreat. |
| What happened during the Holocaust? | The Nazis murdered about six million Jewish people. |
| What was D-Day? | was an Allied invasion of German-controlled Western Europe |
| What did "Rosie The Riveter" become a symbol of? | women who kept American factories running during the war. |
| Admiral Chester Nimitz served as___________? | Commander of American Naval Forces in the Atlantic |
| Who took over as president after Franklin D Roosevelt died? | Harry S. Truman |
| "Code Talkers" were a group of_________soldiers that used their language to create an unbreakable secret code. | Navajo |
| After the U.S. entered that war, Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and move into_____________? | relocation camps |
| The Tuskegee Airman were the first__________fighter pilots. | African American |
| Los Alamos, a city in New Mexico, was the location of__________. | a secret lab where scientists worked on the atomic bomb |
| What was the location chosen for the Allied invasion of Western Europe? | Normandy, France |
| General Holland Smith called the fighting on _________the toughest the Marines ran across in 168 years. | Iwo Jima |
| What countries made up the Axis Powers? | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| What happened on September 1, 1939? | Germany invaded Poland, which officially started WWII |
| May 8, 1945 was given the name V-E Day. What country(s) surrendered on this day? | Germany |
| The American General_________led his men against German Forces in the attack called_______? | Geoge S. Patton, The Battle of the Bulge |
| What was the name of the Jewish girl whose diary has become one of the most famous accounts of the life under Nazi rule? | Anne Frank |
| Give me the month,date, and year that the Japanese attacked our naval base in Hawaii, prompting us to declare war on them. | Dec. 7, 1941 |
| What was the name of the place in Hawaii where the naval base was located? | Pearl Harbor |
| On August 6, 1944, an Air Force bomber named _______dropped an atomic bomb on the city of_______, destroying the city and killing more than 80,000 people. | Enola Gay, Hiroshima |
| ________gardens were small vegetable gardens that helped increase the amout of food available in the U.S. | Victory |
| What was the code name given to the effort to build an atomic bomb? | Manhattan Project |
| The Battle of_______, which took place on a small island northwest of Hawaii, was a major turing point in the war against Japan. | Midway |
| Give me the month, date, and year of V-J(Victory of Japan)day. | Aug. 14, 1945 |
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