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US strategy in the Pacific: bypass strongly held islands and attack weaker ones to gain bases.
Island Hopping
Fire Bombing
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Blitzkreig
2
Besides the blast and heat, what killed people after the atomic bombs were dropped?
Burns
Radiation Poisoning
Severe injuries
Lack of food and water
3
What joined Germany and Italy with Japan?
Treaty of Versailles
Lend-Lease Act
Non-Aggression Pact
Tripartite Alliance
4
The Cold War, clash between capitalism and communism, was between which two superpowers?
Germany and Japan
US and China
US and USSR
USSR and China
5
What did the US do to Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor?
Nothing
Sent them to fight in Europe
Sent them back to Japan
Sent them to Internment Camps
6
Great Britain and the US signed what agreement for supplies?
Lend-Lease Act
Non-aggression pact
Buy-Sell Act
Supplies Act
7
The names of the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were?
Fat Man and Little Boy
Little Man and Fat Boy
Enola Gay and Little Boy
Alfred and Big John
8
Approximately how many Jews were murdered in the Holocaust?
6 million
11 million
1.5 million
5 million
9
What US leader made the decision to use atomic bombs against Japan?
Churchill
Eisenhower
Roosevelt
Truman
10
What was the "final solution" to the Germans' Jewish "problem"?
All of these
Sterilization
Extermination
Deportation
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Walled-off areas of cities into which Jews were forced to move:
Internment Camps
Projects
Ghettos
Concentration Camps
12
The leader of the US for most of WW2:
Tojo
Stalin
Roosevelt
Churchill
13
Allied invasion of Normandy, France:
B-Day
D-Day
Okinawa
Pearl Harbor
14
Which nation lost at least 20 million people during WW2?
Germany
Soviet Union
US
Great Britain
15
The prime minister of Japan for most of WW2:
Tojo
Stalin
Churchill
Roosevelt
16
What was the Holocaust?
All of these
The catastrophe
The attempted extermination of the Jews by Germany
The final solution to the Jewish problem
17
What did the Allies do to trick the Germans so D-Day could be successful?
Inflatable tanks
All of these
Capture of all German spies
Operation Bodyguard
18
Major battle in Soviet Union in which Soviet troops defeated Germany; heavy casualties.
Battle of Britain
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Stalingrad
19
The leader of Great Britain during WW2 was:
Mussolini
Stalin
Churchill
Roosevelt
20
Who was the Allied commander of Europe?
Montgomery
Rommel
Eisenhower
Goring
21
What battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Midway
22
World War 2 began when Germany invaded what country?
France
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Austria
23
Name of the German "doctor" who performed medical "experiments" on Jewish prisoners.
Goerring
Mengele
Hitler
Heinz
24
What country used Kamikaze ("divine wind") attacks?
Great Britain
Germany
Japan
US
25
The leader of Italy during WW2:
Roosevelt
Churchill
Mussolini
Hirohito
26
The Allied Powers included:
Great Britain, US, Italy
Great Britain, Soviet Union, Japan
Great Britain, Japan, US
Great Britain, Soviet Union, US
27
Germany killed approximately how many people during the Holocaust?
11 million
6 million
3 million
5 million
28
The leader of Russia during WW2:
Roosevelt
Churchill
Tojo
Stalin
29
On August 6, 1945, the US first dropped an atomic bomb on which Japanese city?
Berlin
Tokyo
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
30
What was Germany's last offensive against the Allied powers?
Battle of Britain
Battle of Normandy
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
31
Allied project to bring foreign scientists to the US to develop new technologies.
Operation Stapler
Operation Paperclip
Operation File Folder
Operation Bodyguard
32
After which battle was the following photo taken?
Midway
Hiroshima
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
33
The Axis Powers of WW2 included:
Germany, Italy, Japan
Germany, Japan, France
Germany, Italy, US
Germany, Japan, Ottoman Empire
34
What event caused the US to declare war and begin fighting in WW2?
Sinking of the Lusitania
Bombing of London
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Bombing of Washington DC
35
Germany planned to invade Great Britain after doing what?
Amphibious assault
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Prolonged aerial bombings
Atomic bombings