world war II

The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of American pilots who flew many missions during World War II. They were good pilots who earned a great deal of recognition, but were also unique in the military because they were

• Japanese Americans
• Asian Americans
• African Americans
• Mexican Americans

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On D-Day, General Dwight Eisenhower and the Allied Powers

• invaded the stormy beaches of Normandy to push the Germans out of France

• invaded Japan to defeat the Japanese

• attacked Pearl Harbor

Leader of Italy

• Adolf Hitler
• Benito Mussolini
• Emperor Hirohito
• Dwight Eisenhower

The first city the Atomic Bomb was dropped on

• Hiroshima

• Nagasaki

• Tokyo

• Pearl Harbor

The two major theaters the war was fought in

• Europe and South America

• Scandinavia and Europe

• Germany and Poland

• The Pacific and Europe

The Navajo group of Native Americans helped during the war by doing what?

• using their language as a secret code

• rescuing prisoners of war at D-Day

• fighting at the biggest battle in Germany

• shooting down enemy planes at Pearl Harbor

For the United States, WWII began when _____.

• when Spain sunk the U.S Maine

• when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

• when the stock market crashed.

• Germany invaded Poland.

Invaded by the Germans in Sept. 1939?

• France
• Sweden
• Poland
• Canada

Location of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet?

• Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• Norfolk, Virginia
• San Diego, California
• Seattle, Washington

Allied Powers:

• Soviet Union, Japan, Britain

• U.S., Britain, Soviet Union

• Italy, Japan, U.S.

• Britain, Italy, Soviet Union