World War II

In December of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that the United States had declared war on Japan. The event that led to this decision was Japan's:

• Bombing of Pearl Harbor
• Bombing of England
• Bombing of Normandy
• Bombing of London

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German leader who led the Nazi Party

• Joseph Stalin
• Adolf Hitler
• Benito Mussolini
• Hirohito

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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 Normandy
• invaded Japan to defeat the Japanese
• attacked Pearl Harbor

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Leader of Italy

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

Prime Minister of England/Great Britain

• Winston Churchill
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Benito Mussolini
• Dwight Eisenhower

The president who decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Franklin Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman
• Dwight Eisenhower

Executive Order 9066 relocated what ethnic group b/c Americans feared they would help the Axis Powers?

• Japanese
• Germans
• Italians
• Jews

What top-secret military project developed a new weapon & tested it at Los Alamos, NM?

• Manhattan Project
• Fat Man Project
• Operation Gamma
• Operation Gold

Why was the Battle of Midway the turning point in the Pacific War?

• Germans never won any battles after it
• U.S. lost its entire fleet
• Japanese never won after it
• U.S. now could launch planes to bomb mainland Japan

Admiral Chester Nimitz, the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Naval Fleet, developed what strategy to defeat the Japanese?

• island hopping
• search and destroy missions
• total war
• guerrilla warfare