WWII

Which countries belonged to the Axis Powers?

• U.S., Italy, Austria, and Great Britain

• U.S., Great Britain, Italy, Greece, and France

• Germany, Italy and Japan

• Germany, France, Russia and Japan

What event led to the start of WWII?

• Germany invaded Poland

• Germany invaded Austria

• Germany formed an alliance with Italy

• Germany formed an alliance with Japan

This is the name remembered for the Allied attack on German-Controlled France (The Invasion of Normandy) on June 6, 1944. It was a turning point in the war.

• Operation Dumbo Drop

• Operation Torch

• D-Day

• Omaha

Which countries made up the Allied Powers in World War II? (Select all that apply)

• Great Britain

• United States

• France

• Italy

• Russia

What events directly led to the surrender of Japan to the United States?

• The dropping of two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

• the US victory over Japanese forces at the Battles of Midway and Okinawa

• The D-Day invasion led by the US onto mainland Japan

Why did President Truman decide to drop the Atomic Bomb?

• To prevent American casualties .
• To kill lots of Japanese civilians to weaken their moral. 
• To destroy Japanese Industry
• To Weaken Japanese Army

Why was island hopping important? 

• It was a popular dance during the 1940's that helped lift morale on the home front.
• It helped increase trade between America and the Caribbean islands during WWII.
• It enabled island tribes to move between islands in order to escape the fighting during WWII.
• It allowed America to capture key islands in the Pacific and use them in order to get closer to Japan.

Who was the dictator of Germany that rose to power with the Nazi Party?

• Joseph Stalin

• Winston Churchill

• Adolf Hitler

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

In which WWII event did Japan use the strategy of surprise attack to bomb the United States?

• D-Day on the shores of France

• Pearl Harbor

• Invasion of Poland

• V-E Day

The Holocaust refers to ____________

• bombing of Britain
• total war
• the massacre of more than six million Jews.
• the surrender of the Germans.