Unit 5 Summative Part 2

Russian leader during WWII

• Hitler
• Hirohito
• Stalin
• Lenin

British Prime Minister during WWII

• Hitler
• Hirohito
• Truman
• Churchill

Italian fascist dictator during WWII

• Hirohito
• Mussolini
• Stalin
• Hitler

Japanese political leader who signed the peace treaty to end the war in the Pacific

• Hitler
• Hirohito
• Tojo
• Truman

German dictator during WWII

• Mussolini
• Churchill
• Hitler
• Truman

The Battle of Stalingrad was a crushing defeat for Germany because

• it turned the tide of the war in the East
• they lost all of their high-ranking officers
• Soviet soldiers received ai from France to defeat the Germans

The US carried on an "island-hopping campaign" in order to

• get close enough to Japan to take over
• reach the Soviet Union from the east
• cause fewer casualties than a land war would

Hitler wanted to dominate other countries because he believed that

• other countries were trying to conquer Germany
• Germany's people were superior to everyone else
• Germany's natural resources were superior

Which event ended the war in the Pacific?

• D-Day
• the arrest of Mussolini
• bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Which of the following illustrates the fact that Allies approached Germany from all sides (two-front war)?

• The U.S. island-hopped, taking Iwo Jima and Okinawa, later bombing Japan
• Allies liberated Paris, crossed the Rhine; the Soviets reoccupied Ukraine, Baltics, and Warsaw
• Allies landed at Normandy