Major Battles and Bombings
The first battle for the USA of World War II?
What is Pearl Harbor December 7,1941
Name three of the major Allied powers.
Great Britain, France, Russia, the US, or China
Who was the German dictator?
Hitler
Who stared the Holocaust?
Hitler
What was the German excuse for the start of WWII, in their opinion?
The harshness of the Treaty of Versailles
What was the name of the island that the US took over off the coast of Japan?
Iwo Jima
What were the Axis powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Who was the leader of Japan?
Emperor Hirohito
What were the names of the neighborhoods the Jews had to move into?
Ghetto's
Why didn't Japan want to surrender to the US?
The Emperor was concerned about what was going to happen to him.
What two cities were destroyed by the USA with the atomic bomb on August 6 and August 9th of 1945
Heroshima and Nagasaki
Out of the Axis powers, who lost the most men?
Germany
What two American presidents led the Allied forces in WWII
Roosevelt, and Truman
How many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust?
6 million.
What two countries aloud Germany to gain so much power?
Britain and France
Why did we want to take over the island of Iwo Jima?
So we could have a place to land our planes.
Who lost the most men out of the Allies
USSR (Soviet Union)
Who was the cruel dictator of the Soviet Union who changed it into a industrial and military powerhouse?
Joseph Stalin
How did he hurt Jews economically?
He told the German people not to shop in any stores owned by Jews.
What was the propaganda in German used for?
To get public support for the hatred of Jews.
What battle in WWII is known as D-Day?
The Battle of Normandy
Which country left the Axis powers, and went over to help the allies?
What is Russia
What Italian leader was overthrown and put in jail but rescued by the Germans in 1945?
Benito Mussolini
Why were Jewish people singled out?
They thought the Jews were planning world domination.
Who did Germany invade that started WW2?
What is Poland.