Using the Atomic Bomb

During which war did the U.S. create the atomic bomb?

• World War I
• World War II
• Korean War
• Vietnam War

What president made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in World War II?      

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman
• John F. Kennedy

The scientists were scared of the damage the bomb created

• True
• False

Why did the United States decide to drop the bomb rather than invade Japan with soldiers?

• wanted to see if the bomb worked
•  did not think they could defeat the Japanese
• did not have the soldiers or weapons left to attack Japan
• They estimated that 500,000 to 1 million Allied soldiers would die in an invasion

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the 2 cities bombed with the Atomic bomb?

• True
• False

What Japanese city was the atomic bomb first dropped on? 

• Kobe
• Nagasaki 
• Tokyo
• Hiroshima

P2 The Japanese would fight until ____________ .

• every soldier died

• they ran out of ammunition

• Germany surrendered

P3 At the time Truman became president the atomic bomb __________________ .

• worried many people

• was a top-secret project

• was a well-known weapon

P4 The decision to use the atomic bomb was difficult because _____________ .

• many innocent people would be killed

• it was expensive

• it was untested

P5 Because Japan did not surrender after the bombing of Hiroshima, the United States _______________ .

• surrendered to Japan

• dropped a second bomb on another Japanese city

• invaded Japan with soldiers