Ch. 24: WW2 Test Review

The Allied Powers included:

Walled-off areas of cities into which Jews were forced to move:

What event caused the US to declare war and begin fighting in WW2?

The leader of Great Britain during WW2 was:

US strategy in the Pacific: bypass strongly held islands and attack weaker ones to gain bases.

What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials?

What joined Germany and Italy with Japan?

What US leader made the decision to use atomic bombs against Japan?

Germany planned to invade Great Britain after doing what?

Great Britain and the US signed what agreement for supplies?

What country used Kamikaze attacks?

Germany killed approximately how many people during the Holocaust?

The names of the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were?

Who was the Allied commander of Europe?

World War 2 began when Germany invaded what country?

Allied project to bring foreign scientists to the US to develop the atomic bomb.

The leader of the US for most of WW2:

The Axis Powers of WW2 included:

The prime minister of Japan for most of WW2:

Which was NOT a leader of the ORIGINAL "Big 3"

What was Germany's last offensive against the Allied powers?

The Cold War, clash between capitalism and communism, was between which two superpowers?

What was the Holocaust?

Besides the blast and heat, what killed people after the atomic bombs were dropped?

Major battle in Soviet Union in which Soviet troops defeated Germany; heavy casualties.

The leader of Russia during WW2:

After which battle was the following photo taken?

What battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

Which nation lost at least 20 million people during WW2?

Allied invasion of Normandy, France:

What did the US do to Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor?

Approximately how many Jews were murdered in the Holocaust?

What was the "final solution" to the Germans' Jewish "problem"?

The leader of Italy during WW2:

On August 6, 1945, the US first dropped an atomic bomb on which Japanese city?