Planning of Germany's Defeat
Who were the three big leaders who met together to start plan a second front in France?
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin
What is the Invasion of Noarmday also known as?
D-Day
With the lost at Normandy, what kind of war did Germany face?
A two-front War
What month and year did the two most fiercest battles take place?
February and March 1945
What famous bomb came out of World War II?
The atomic bomb
How long after the meeting did the second front on France happened?
Six months later
What is the date that the Invasion of Normandy took place on?
June 6, 1944
In what month and year did the Allied liberated Paris?
August 1944
What were the two fiercest battles?
Okinawa
What two medicines did scientists figure out how to massively produce during this time?
Penicillin and Antibiotics
What general pushed for the invasion of France?
U.S. Army chief of staff George Marshall
How many Allied troops had landed at Normandy?
1 million
With Germany starting to lose, what did his generals plan to do?
They plotted to over throw him
Okinawa was the most complex and costly operation, how?
Half a million troops and 1,213 warships
What was the project's name for the atomic bomb?
The Manhattan Project
What was the code name for the Allied invasion called?
Operation Overlord
How long did it take for the soldiers to take over the beach?
They took over the beach by the end of the day
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
The Germans counterattack
How many casualties were there from the fight for Okinawa?
50,000 casualties
Who were the two leaders of the Manhattan Project?
General Leslie Groves and Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer
What was the three leaders meeting called?
The Teheran Conference
What were the five beaches code names called in the invasion of Normady?
Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword
Harry S. Truman
In a raid in March 1945, American bombers attack Japan; how many were killed?
Over 83,000 Japanese were killed
What was the line from a Hindu poem did Oppenheimer recalled after the testing of the atomic bomb?
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of Worlds."