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S.S. ch. 8 test
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Question | Answer |
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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 |