IMPACT Ch 12 Lsn 3: Winning WWII

IMPACT Ch 12 Lsn 3: Winning WWII

Multiple Choice

The defeat of the Axis Powers in Europe on May 8, 1945 is known as ______

• D-Day

• Pearl Harbor

• Doomsday

• V-E Day

Multiple Select

Why did the Axis Powers fail?

• The United States manufacturing abilities were superior

• Germany was geographically vulnerable from multiple sides

• The Soviets were more powerful and capable than expected

• Japan made the Axix weaker

• Hitler made foolish military decisions

Multiple Choice

As a result of the battles at Midway and the Coral Sea, starting in 1942...

• the United States went on the offensive against Japan

• the Soviet Union joined the war against Japan

• the Soviet Union dropped out of the war

• the United States remained on the defensive against Japan

Multiple Select

The experience of American and Filipino POWs during the Bataan Death March was

• fair

• brutal

• pleasant

• hellish

• torturous

Multiple Choice

General Douglas MacArthur's main strategy in fighting Japan was

• trench warfare

• blitzkrieg

• island-hopping

• kamikaze

Multiple Choice

One technique Japanese pilots employed out of desperation that involved suicide was

• blitzkrieg

• kamikaze

• island-hopping

• trench warfare

Multiple Choice

The top-secret objective of creating an atomic weapon in the early 1940s was

• The Tallahassee Project

• The Manhattan Project

• Weapon X

• Operation Greenlight

Multiple Select

The only atomic bombs to be used in war were dropped over ________ and _______, forcing the Japanese emperor to surrender on August 10, 1945.

• Tokyo

• Nagasaki

• Osaka

• Hiroshima

• Kyoto

Open Ended

What cost is worth the price of victory (for both the US and the Japanese)? Are nuclear weapons acceptable tools of warfare?