BSA 8th Grade Chapter 23 Test Prep

President Truman was opposed to the decision to use the atomic bombs against Japan.

Who commanded US forces in the Philippines?

Which group of Americans were forced to live in internment camps during World War 2?

At the Yalta Conference, Stalin promised free & fair elections in eastern Europe and to enter the war against Japan

Who was the prime minister of Japan during most of World War 2?

fascist dictator of Italy

Italy (Mussolini) responded to League of Nations' condemnation of its actions by ceasing all acts of foreign aggression.

The League of Nations was effective in halting the foreign aggression of Italy, Japan, and Germany.

Before USA entered WWII, some US pilots volunteered to fight against the Japanese in a group called the Flying Tigers.

Who was the prime minister of Britain for most of World War 2?

commander of Operation Torch in North Africa and supreme Allied commander.

Prime minister of Japan during most of WWII

Which country did Hitler demand the Sudetenland from?

President of the United States after Roosevelt's death

Hitler signed a nonagression pact with ___; the 2 nations agreed not to attack one another and they would share Poland

"D-day" was the Allied invasion of German-occupied _____.

Albert Einstein, who fled Germany and sought refuge in the US, warned Roosevelt the Germans were developing atomic bombs

Which battle became the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

Who was the leader of the Nazi party in Germany?

What German-speaking country did Hitler unify with Germany in 1938?

admiral of the US Navy in the Pacific

The Allied leaders agreed to focus on defeating Japan as the first priority of the war.

In what year did Japan attack Pearl Harbor and bring the US into World War 2?

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War 2?

Hitler was captured and tried for war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials.

Who commanded forces in Operation Torch and became supreme Allied commander?

Hitler expressed his racial views and desire to expand Germany's territory in his book, Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles when he united the German-speaking country of ______ with Germany in 1938.

Winston Churchill praised British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for preserving "peace in our time."

Who was the fascist dictator of Italy?

Leader of the Nazi party in Germany

Britain and France declared war on Germany after Germany's invasion of _______

Who was an American admiral in the Pacific?

What new weapon was created by the Manhattan Project?

Operation Barbarossa was Hitler's invasion of _______

American women were able to contribute to the war effort in each of the following ways except _____

Americans generally retained an isolationist attitude toward foreign affairs throughout the 1930s

At the Potsdam Conference, the Allied leaders demanded that Japan surrender unconditionally or face total destruction.

commander of US forces in the Philippines

The US used American Indians, including Navajo, to develop a code used by the American military.

Many US forces in the Philippines had to surrender to the Japanese, 1000s died on the Bataan Death March to prison camp

Which nation did the United States use an island-hopping strategy against?

In what year were V-E Day and V-J Day celebrated?

prime minister of Britain during most of WWII

Britain and France declared war on Germany after Germany's invasion of _____.

Who became president of the United States after Roosevelt's death?

leader of the Soviet Union during WWII

Which country did Germany invade in Operation Barbarossa?