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  • What was a "Kamikaze"?
    The Japanese tactic of pilots preforming suicide attacks on American ships
  • Was Great Britain Allied Powers or Axis Powers?
    Allied Powers
  • Was Italy Allied Powers or Axis Powers?
    Axis Powers
  • Which number identifies Hawaii?
    1
  • Which number identifies Australia?
    2
  • What political party did Benito Mussolini lead?
    Fascist Party
  • What is the date for the Bombing of Hiroshima?
    August 6,1945
  • What did order 9066 do?
    It forced Japanese Americans out of their homes and into internment camps.
  • What effect did the Holocaust have on World War II?
    It led to the deaths of over 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000 other people at the hands of the Nazis.
  • Which number identifies Germany?
    2
  • Which number identifies Italy?
    3
  • Which number identifies France?
    1
  • What was the Manhattan Project?
    A secret plan to build an atomic bomb
  • What political party did Hideki Tojo lead?
    Imperial Rule
  • Which number identifies Iwo Jima and Okinawa?
    3
  • How did the atomic bombing of Japan affect WWII?
    It caused the Japanese to surrender, ending the war.
  • Who was not a dictator? Choose one from the following: Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini
    Franklin Roosevelt
  • What is the date for D-day?
    June 6, 1944
  • Was United States Allied Powers or Axis Powers?
    Allied Powers
  • What effect did the Holocaust have on World War II?
    It led to the deaths of over 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000 other people at the hands of the Nazis.
  • What is the message behind the "Rosie the Riveter" propaganda?
    Women are capable enough to work in the factories in which men use to work.
  • What is the date for VE day? (Victory in Europe)
    May 8, 1945
  • Was Japan Allied Powers or Axis Powers?
    Axis Powers
  • What political party did Joseph Stalin lead?
    Communist Party
  • Was Germany Allied Powers or Axis Powers?
    Axis Powers
  • What was the date for the Atomic bombing of Nagasaki?
    August 9th, 1945
  • Which number identifies D-day?
    6
  • Which of the following were ways that American citizens helped the war effort on the homefront? (Pick 2 answers!)
    Americans rationed many goods like meat, bread, and coffee. And Americans purchased war bonds from the U.S. government.
  • Was France Allied Powers or Axis Powers?
    Allied Powers
  • Why did the U.S, have to give up their isolationism?
    Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.
  • Which of the following is true about the atrocities (and war crimes) committed during WWII?
    Both the Allied and Axis powers committed atrocities and war crimes during World War II.
  • Which number identifies Battle of Berlin?
    7
  • What is the date when Germany invaded Poland, starting World War 2?
    September 1,1939
  • Which number identifies Soviet Union?
    5
  • Why was D-Day so important to the Allies winning the war?
    It gave the Allies a foothold in western Europe and forced the Germans to retreat from France.
  • Which number identifies the Philippines?
    5
  • Which number identifies Battle of Stalingrad?
    8
  • What political party did Adolf Hitler lead?
    Nazi Party
  • Which of following is true of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis?
    Hitler ruled as a dictator and used his Nazi party to promote the power of the German people.
  • What is the date when Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?
    December 7, 1941
  • Which of the following best defines appeasement?
    Giving a dictator what they want to avoid conflict
  • Which number identifies Japan?
    4
  • Why did President Harry Truman have conferences on the atomic bomb?
    He wanted to know about the bomb's importance and value for the war.
  • What was island hopping?
    The American tactic of capturing only specific, strategic islands on the way to Japan
  • Which number identifies Great Britain?
    4
  • During WWII, the U.S. government sent Japanese-Americans to internment camps because:
    the country was fearful that Japanese-Americans would be betray the U.S.