World War 2

What was the name for the secret project to build an atomic bomb?

• Manhattan Project

• Tuskegee Airben

• Secret Boom

• Normandy

Who was the fascist leader of Italy?

• Adolph Hitler

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Benito Mussolini

• Neville Chamberlain

Which was a major cause of the rise dictators in Europe after WW1?

• economic prosperity

• Treaty of Versailles

• redrawing of European borders

• German win of WWI

The D-Day Allied invasion of France took place where?

• Paris

• Plymoth

• Tokyo

• Normandy

Which of the following caused the Great Depression?

• Hitler invading Poland
• Stock market crash of 1929
• Storming of the Bastille
• Assassination of the Archduke

What event caused World War 2 to occur?

• assassination of the archduke
• Germany invaded Poland

• Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
• Germany invaded Austria

[Preview] Which THREE of these countries were the main Allies fighting against the Axis powers?

• United States

• Soviet Union

• Great Britain

• Denmark

• Italy

[p3] The United States carried on an "island-hopping" campaign to...

• get close enough to mainland Japan to take over.

• reach the Soviet Union from the east.

• cause fewer casualties than a land war would.

• sneak up on Hitler from the sea.

[p3] What outcome did US President Truman hope to AVOID by dropping atomic bombs on Japan?

• A negotiated peace settlement with Japan like the Treaty of Versailles with Germany in WWI.

• American troops would suffer heavy casualties invading the Japanese homeland.

• The Soviet Union would invade Japan & set up a communist government there.

[p3] What event ended the war in the Pacific?

• the D-Day landing at Normandy

• the arrest of Mussolini

• the capture of Iwo Jima & Okinawa

• the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki