World War II Review

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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In 1942, 50 nations came together to draw up the United Nations Charter.  What was the purpose of drawing up the charter?

• Promote another World War.
• Prevent WWIII and promote peace
• Prevent the Civil War
• To drop a bomb on Japan

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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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Who fits the following description? Emperor of Japan from 1926 until 1989.  He ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor.  Entered into a military alliance with Nazi    Germany.

• Benito Mussolini
• Emperor Hirohito
• Joseph Stalin
• Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of England/Great Britain

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

When Japan's Emperor Hirohito surrendered to MacArthur and Truman, this was known as

• V-E Day
• D-Day
• V-J Day
• V - G Day

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

• Franklin Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman
• Dwight Eisenhower

The Nazi government began to systematically kill Jews, gypsies, and the disabled.  This was know as the

• V- J Day

• V- E Day
• Holocaust
• Korean War

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Japanese Americans were placed in ______________ during WWII after the attack of Pearl Harbor.

• concentration camps
• internment camps

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