1. 04-27-09 Was the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan right or wrong? Justify your answer.

2. World War II Review

3. The United States, Great Britain, and eventually the Soviet Union made up the? Allied Powers

4. Germany, Italy, and Japan made up what is known as the ? Axis Powers

5. Who was the leader of the United States during World War II? Franklin Delano Roosevelt Harry S. Truman

6. Who was the leader of Great Britain during WWII? Winston Churchill

7. Who was the leader of Germany during WWII? Adolf Hitler –Signed non- aggression pact with the leader of the Soviet Union.

8. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII? Joseph Stalin

9. What political group did Hitler lead that took power in Germany? The Nazis

10. What policy did European nations adopt to meet the “resonable demands” of Adolf Hitler? Appeasement

11. One of the appeasements given to Hitler was granting him the northern part of Czechoslovakia also known as… Sudetenland

12. Great Britain and France declared war on Germany when they invaded whom? Poland

13. “Lightning war” which used panzer divisions supported by air attacks was known as… Blitzkrieg

14. Hitler’s “final solution” included the building of concentration camps to help exterminate the Jews in a practice known as? Genocide –They also killed gypsies and homosexuals

15. The slaughter of Jews by Nazi’s became known as what? The Holocaust

16. Who led Hitler’s SS which was in charge of the extermination of the Jews. Heinrich Himmler

17. The most well known and deadly of concentration camps was? Auschwitz

18. Deciding to attack the Soviet Union was a mistake because just like WWI it created what? A two front war –In addition to that soon after Japan (Germany’s ally attacked the United States which forced Germany to declare war on the U.S. as well)

19. At which battle did the Germans loose their entire Sixth Army, considered to be the best German troops. The Battle of Stalingrad +

20. The German Airforce was known as what? The Luftwaffe

21. As the war continued the Luftwaffe was forced to bomb military targets as well as what? Civilian Populations

22. Why did the United States begin to cut off relations with Japan? Their aggressive expansion in the East. –U.S. cut off their supply of oil to the Japanese.

23. At the beginning of the war the United States practiced a strict policy of ? Isolationism and Neutrality

24. December 7,1941 the Japanese conducted a surprise attack on what U.S. territory? Pearl Harbor

25. What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific? The Battle of Midway All the way Midway

26. The biggest offensive in history staged to beat Germany was know as? D-day –Main invasion force landed on the beaches of Normandy in France

27. Eventually Japan used the “divine wind” or _________to defend their country. Kamikaze

28. In order to defeat Japan the U.S. used the practice of ? Island hopping

29. One of the last and most strategic islands taken towards the end of the war was? Iwo Jima

30. Which U.S. President decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Harry S. Truman

31. What type of plane dropped the atomic bomb on Japan? B-29 Superfortress

32. The Yalta conference established the creation of what? The United Nations

33. At the Tehran Conference the Allies decided to do what? Make a final offensive on postwar Germany

34. At the Postdam Conference, Truman demanded that there be _________ throughout Eastern Europe. Freely elected governments

35. The period of tension between East and West following WWII was known as the? Cold War