SSUSH 19 WWII Vocab Quiz

June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy

• D-Day
• Adolf Hitler and Nazis
• Benito Mussolini
• A. Philip Randolph

Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

• Adolf Hitler and Nazis
• Harry S. Truman
• Benito Mussolini
• A. Philip Randolph

U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II.

• Benito Mussolini
• Battle of Midway
• Lend-Lease Act
• Adolf Hitler and Nazis

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

• Winston Churchill
• Benito Mussolini
• Joseph Stalin
• Harry S. Truman

Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped (August 9, 1945).

• Soviet Union
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki

In April 1945, surrounded by Allies to southwest & Soviet Red Army to the east, Hitler committed suicide with wife Eva Braun & the Third Reich surrendered

• Axis Powers
• Allied Powers
• Fall of Berlin
• Rationing

between or among the nations of the world

• Red Army
• International
• Domestic
• Allied Powers

leader of the Allied forces in Europe then was elected to be Pres. of the USA

• Soviet Union
• Hiroshima
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Joseph Stalin
• Harry S. Truman
• Winston Churchill

code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II

• Operation Overlord
• Manhattan Project
• Japanese-American Internment
• Allied Powers