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Who is Winston Churchill?
Prime Minister of England
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What is VE Day?
Victory in Europe
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What was painted on the wall of Germany as the war in Europe is coming to an end?
"We shall never surrender” and “Every German will defend his capital"
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Which countries are in the Allied Powers? Name the main 6.
USA, Great Britain, Russia, China, England and Poland
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What was the Nuremberg Trials?
The trials against the Nazis party created by the USA Goverment.
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Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
President of USA. He is the only president to ever be elected for 4 terms.
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VJ Day
Victory in Japan
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What was The Manhattan Project?
Code name for the Atom Bomb
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Which countries are in the Axis Powers? Name the main 3.
Germany, Japan and Italy
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Why did the Japanese bomb us at Pearl Harbor?
They wanted the USA and Great Britain to trade again.
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Who is Adolf Hitler?
Dictator of Germany and crazy lunatic.
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What is Amphibious Landing?
When the navy try to swim to the shore to take over a base.
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Where did the USA hit japan with the Atom Bomb?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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What is The Manhattan Project
It's the code name for the atom bomb
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What was painted on the wall of Germany as the war in Europe is coming to an end?
"We shall never surrender” and “Every German will defend his capital"
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Who is Rosie the Riveter?
Name given to women who worked in factories who did jobs that were previously thought of to be too hard for women.
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What is America First?
Members fought not only to keep the USA out of the war, but also to discourage America from helping either side.
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Lend/Lease Agreement
An act in March 1941 that allowed the USA to sell, lend, lease or provide services and equipment to countries that were protecting the national interests of the USA.
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How long did FDR stay in office?
12 years
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What happened to the German concentration/killing camps?
Russian forces discover and liberate the death camp at Auschwitz in Poland and other camps.
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Who is Harry Truman?
Franklin Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. Harry Truman (then Vice President) becomes President on the March of 1945.
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What was the Japanese German Military Technology Collaboration?
When Japan and Germany sharing technology and war equipment with other places.
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What is the United Nations?
The USA and Great Britain decide to begin the United Nations, which they want Russia to be a part of. It will replace the League of Nations and hopefully be more effective.
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How was the Atom Bomb created?
In 1939, a Hungarian physicist who had immigrated to the USA wrote President FDR a letter. He told the president about the possibility of splitting the nucleus of a powerful atom, such as uranium, releasing a tremendous amount of energy and producing a chain reaction leading to the creation of the atom bomb.
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Why did the USA drop 2 bombs on Japan and where were they dropped?
The USA, England and Russia give Japan an ultimatum to surrender or we will drop the Atom Bomb. Japan Refuses; Hiroshima and Nagasaki.