War in the pacific

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was the turning of the Battle of the Pacific

• Midway

• Okinawa

• Iwo Jima

• Hawaii

Multiple Choice

True or False: Upon the completion of the Nuclear bomb, Robert Oppenheimer quotes the Goddess Shiva saying "I have become death, the destroyer of worlds"

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The war ended in Europe in May of 1945 with the fall of the city of Berlin. The War in the Pacific ended with the dropping of atomic bombs on the city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When did the war in the Pacific take place?

• June of 1944

• January of 1947

• September of 1945

• August of 1946

Multiple Choice

Approximately how many Americans died at Pearl Harbor?

• 371

• 10,000

• 2,887

• 3, 300

Open Ended

In 1945 Harry S. Truman was responsible for deciding whether to drop the most powerful weapon man had ever created. He clearly understood that many civilians would lose their lives in this attack. He also had to calculate the cost of an invasion of the Japanese homelands. Given the information he had, why do you think he made or did not make the right choice?