Vocabulary
The name for a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy.
What is the atomic bomb?
The day the Allies celebrated victory in Europe.
What is V-E Day?
The name of the day the Japanese surrendered.
What is V-J Day?
The name a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy.
What is an atomic bomb?
The name of the side that won World War II.
Who are the Allies?
The Axis
Who were Germany, Italy, and Japan?
The Allied invasion of Normandy that led to the liberation of France.
What is D-Day?
The name of the Allied strategy to defeat Japan and win the war in the Pacific.
What is island-hopping?
The names of the Japanese cities where atomic bomb were dropped.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The years of World War II.
What is 1939-1945?
The Allies
Who were the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union?
The Allied strategy to win the war in Europe.
What is to surround Germany and invade from the different directions?
The name of the turning point Allied victory that halted Japanese advances in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?
The reason the United States decided to use atomic bombs on Japan.
What is US leaders wanted to end the war without invading Japan?
The number of people killed during World War II.
What is 45-60 million people?
The Allied strategy of targeting islands to capture that would create a path for an invasion of Japan.
What is island hopping?
The name of the final German offensive.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
The forced 65-mile march of American prisoners of war (POWs) to a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines.
What is the Bataan Death March?
The name of the top-secret program to build an atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The name of the US President who decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan.
Who is Harry Truman?
The name for Japanese suicide pilots.
Who are kamikaze?
The name of the country that invaded Berlin, killing 500,000 German soldiers and civilians.
What is the Soviet Union?
The name of the Allied commander in the Pacific?
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
The name of the lead scientist behind the project to build an atomic bomb.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
The name of the Allied commander in Europe.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?