What was the Allies plan for victory over Nazis?

Fight Germany on two fronts to weaken it

What combination led to the German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad?

Russian troops and Russian winter

Why were thousands of US citizens put in internment camps during the war?

They were of Japanese descent and labeled enemies

What does the use of kamikaze show about Japanese culture?

They valued national honor more than individual life

Why did President Truman agree to use the atomic bomb?

to bring the war to the quickest possible end

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World History Chapter 16

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1
What was the Allies plan for victory over Nazis?
Operation Torch would burn key points in Germany
Fight Germany on two fronts to weaken it
Join forces in Eastern Front and invade Germany
focus their forces on North Africa to control oil
2
Japanese suicide pilots who tried to sink Allied ships by crashing their planes into them
blitzkrieg
Final Solution
genocide
kamikaze
3
city neighborhood in which European Jews were forced to live
non-aggression pact
concentration camp
Aryan
ghetto
4
What combination led to the German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad?
Russian and German fuel shortages
Russian troops and Russian winter
Russian ground forces and American air strikes
Russian and British troops
5
Prime Minister of England During World War II
Adolf Hitler
Douglas MacArthur
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
6
Where were atomic bombs dropped?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Dresden and Berlin
Tokyo and Hong Kong
Midway and Pearl Harbor
7
to the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed the 'master race'
kamikaze
Aryan
genocide
blitzkrieg
8
Why were thousands of US citizens put in internment camps during the war?
They had known of the attack on Pearl Harbor in advance
They were of Japanese descent and labeled enemies
They were radioing helpful info to the Germans
They were of German descent and labeled enemies
9
What event occurred on the day described as "a date which will live in infamy"?
Battle of Guadalcanal
bombing of Hiroshima
signing of the Atlantic Charter
attack on Pearl Harbor
10
Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people
kamikaze
blitzkrieg
genocide
Final Solution
11
the systematic killing of an entire race of people
genocide
kamikaze
blitzkrieg
Aryan
12
What does the use of kamikaze show about Japanese culture?
They were full of despair after the atomic bombs fell
They didn't mind dying because they expected to lose the war
They valued national honor more than individual life
They hated Americans enough to die killing them
13
Which of the following battles marked the final German offensive?
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Midway
Battle of Leyte Gulf
14
agreement in which nations agree not to attack each other
non-aggression pact
ghetto
Final Solution
concentration camp
15
Why did President Truman agree to use the atomic bomb?
to punish Japan for Pearl Harbor
to revenge those who died on the Bataan Death March
to destroy weapon plants in Japan
to bring the war to the quickest possible end
16
What prompted Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany?
Soviet invasion of Finland
German invasion of Poland
Soviet invasion of Poland
German invasion of Czechoslavakia
17
June 6, 1944
Battle of the Bulge
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
D-Day
Attack on Pearl Harbor
18
Which of the following was addressed at the Nuremberg trials?
the firebombing of Dresden
the internment of Japanese Americans
the use of nuclear bombs
the Holocaust
19
"lightening war"
genocide
blitzkrieg
kamikaze
Final Solution
20
US General in the Pacific who would become Governor of Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Adolf Hitler
Charles de Gaulle
Winston Churchill

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