AH5.5 World War II: Military Strategy

Who was President of the United States when we entered WW2?

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

What day did the Japanese conduct sneak attack on the American military port of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?

• December 7th, 1941

• December 7th, 1942

• December 9th, 1941

• December 9th, 1942

Which General leads U.S. forces North from Australia to retake the Philippines?

• Gen. Kenobi

• Gen. Dwight Eisenhower

• Gen. J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Naval battle that becomes turning point for WW2 in the Pacific Theatre?

• battle of Midway

• battle of Iwo Jima

• battle of Leyte Gulf

• battle of Okinawa

At which conference did the "Big Three" Allied leaders first meet?

• Casablanca Conference

• Potsdam Conference

• Yalta Conference

• Tehran Conference

What decision was made during the Tehran Conference?

• divide Germany into four military zones at the end of the war

• attempt to defeat Germany first, then Japan

• create a new international peace keeping organization

• opening a western front with an invasion in Western Europe in 1944

What major event took place during D-Day?

• Turning point of the War in the Pacific

• Western Allied invasion of Europe

• Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union

• America's first combat in WWII

what was the Manhattan project?

• project to increase U.S. air force power

• creating 2,000 incendiary bombs to drop on Japan

• building the first atomic bomb

• building canal through Japan

Where was the first atomic bomb dropped?

• Nagasaki

• Hamamatsu

• Hiroshima

• Nagano

what day did Japanese leaders surrender, ending

the war in the Pacific and ending WWII?

• August 15th, 1944

• August 15th, 1945

• August 17th, 1944

• August 17th,1945