World War II

Western democracies responded to Axis aggression with __________until the Nazi invasion of Poland.

• Joy

• Appeasement

• Bombings

• Disappointment

Enthusiastic at first, the United States decided not to join the Allies after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)

• True

• False

The Nazis carried out a plan to exterminate European Jews, now known as the _______.

• Great Extermination

• Appeasement

• Euthanasia

• Holocaust

What was the name of the US project for developing an atomic fission weapon?

• Secret Fission Conference

• Manhattan Project

• Yalta Conference

• Atomic Project

After the failed Nazi siege of Stalingrad and the successful D-Day landings at Normandy, Allied troops closed in on Germany.

• True

• False

US president who made the decision to use atomic weapons against Japan

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Harry S. Truman

• Abraham Lincoln

• Herbert Hoover

Japanese cities on which atomic bombs were dropped

• Edo and Tokyo

• London and Cambridge

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Berlin and Munich

Tribunal to judge the most notorious Nazi war criminals.

• Nuremburg Trials

• Nazi Tribunals

• Daily Tribunals

• War Crimes Panel

Allied invasion of German territory in northern France (June 6, 1944)

• D Day Landing at Normandy

• S Day Landing in Aquitaine

• F Day Landing in Paris

• R Day Landing in Marseilles

The US president during the Great Depression and most of World War II was

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Harry S. Truman

• Herbert Hoover

• Calvin Coolidge