World War II - Pacific & Holocaust

Who attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor in December 1941?

• Japan

• China

• Germany

• Italy

Why did Japan attack the U.S. navel base at Pearl Harbor in 1941?

• Its leaders wanted to punish the Unites States for its role in World War I.
• Its leaders believed the U.S. Navy blocked Japanese expansion.
• Its leaders wanted to gain control of Hawaii's natural resources.
• The United States had recently declared war on Japan.

Over 100,000 people of this ancestry where sent to internment camps in the United States between 1942-45.

• Italian

• German

• British

• Japanese

Who was the dictator of Japan during WWII? 

• Emperor Hirohito 
• Charles de Gaulle
• Hideki Tojo 
• Adolf Hitler 

Allied strategy in the Pacific was called island hopping.

• True

• False

Japanese Suicide Bombers were called

• Kamikaze 
• Blitzkrieg 
• Stalingrad
• Sitzkrieg

Which president ordered the use of the atomic bombs?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• Joseph Stalin

• Winston Churchill

What cities did the U.S. drop the atomic bombs on?

• Tokyo / Ise Shima

• Iwo Jima / Okinawa

• Kyoto / Nagoya

• Hiroshima / Nagasaki

Restrictive laws passed by Hitler’s Nazi government that severely limited the rights of Jews in Germany.

• Nuremburg Laws
• Kristallnacht
• Ghettos
• Ultra-nationalism

In November of 1938, Nazis in Germany torched Jewish synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses, and killed close to 100 Jews. This event is referred to as _____.

• Anti-Semitism riot

• Nuremburg

• Blitzkrieg

• Kristallnacht/Night of the Broken Glass