WW2 Review

U.S. Naval base attacked by the Japanese that brought the U.S. into WW II.

• Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

• San Diego, California

• Corpus Christi, Texas

• San Juan Puerto Rico

Official name for the Allied invasion of Normandy, France in western Europe that began on June 6, 1944.

• Operation Overlord

• Operation Dynamo

• Operation Invasion

• Operation Torch

Battle between US and German forces in Belgium in late 1944 and early 1945; the last attempt by Hitler to break through Allied lines.

• Battle of the Bulge

• Battle of Midway

• Battle of Okinawa

• Battle of Iwo Jima

First Japanese city that was be subjected to nuclear warfare to bring about the end of WWII

• Nagasaki

• Yokohama

• Hiroshima

• Okinawa

Secret project to develop the first nuclear weapons of the United States in collaboration with the U.K. and Canada.

• Manhattan Project

• Oak Ridge Tennessee Project

• Alamogordo NM Project

• Einstein Project

Fierce battle on a small Pacific Island in February-March of 1945 that took place against Japanese forces where the US gained a key military airstrip.

• Battle for Iwo Jima

• Battle for Okinawa

• Battle for Midway

Meeting that took place in February of 1945 between the leaders of the allied powers to discuss the reorganization of Europe after WWII.

• Yalta Conference

• Potsdam

• Berlin

President Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on Japan instead of ordering a land invasion because

• A land invasion would result in too many American casualties.

• Japan's geography would not allow a land invasion.

• It was not possible to adequately supply an invasion force.

• American forces were too depleted for a land invasion.

Who is this WW2 leader?

• Dwight D Eisenhower

• Douglas MacArthur

• Chester Nimitz

The President of the United States who led the nation through the Depression and when World War II began

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D Roosevelt

• Harry S Truman

• Dwight D Eisenhower