What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima? Chapters 8 & 9

World War II was truly a world war.

• True

• False

Nearly ______ _______ people around the globe were killed in World War II.

(a)  

After the war, the ______ ______ and the ______ _____ emerged as the world's two superpowers.

(a)  

Only four years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the ______ _____ tested its first nuclear bomb.

(a)  

(a)   -- weapons that could be launched from silos on land or from hidden submarines-- could deliver atomic bombs anywhere in the world.

MAD: ______ _______ ___________

(a)  

The hope of MAD was that knowing there could be no winner in a nuclear war would stop either superpower from attacking the other.

• True

• False

Many newly built US homes included ____ ________ for the family.

(a)  

Some schools gave out "___ ____" like those worn by soldiers, so that if anyone was killed in a nuclear attack, the students body could be identified.

(a)  

Crawling under a small desk would provide enough protection against a nuclear missile it would save an individuals life.

• True

• False