WW2/Cold War

World War 2 began with Hitler's invasion of _________ in 1939.

• the United States

• Poland

• Russia

• Great Britain

The ___________ gave the President authority to sell or lend military supplies to countries defending themselves against the Axis powers.

• Declaration of War

• Military Sales Act

• Lend-Lease Act

• Axis defense Act

The United States declared war on Japan after it attacked ____________ on December 7, 1941.

• Pearl Harbor

• Pearl Island

• Pearl Bailey

• none of the above

America and its allies (Britain and the Soviet Union) followed a _____________ strategy in WW2.

• defeat Japan first

• defeat Hitler last

• defeat Italy first

• defeat Hitler first

The June 6th, 1944 landing of Allied troops in Normandy, France is known as _______.

• A-Day

• B-Day

• C-Day

• D-Day

President ____________ ordered the use of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force the Japanese to surrender.

• Franklin D Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• Dwight D Eisenhower

• Barak Obama

The _____________ were examples of an all-minority military unit that served in WW2.

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Nisei regiments

• Both A and B

• none of the above

The ____________ attempted to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners of war by establishing rules to be followed by all nations.

• Shriners Convention

• Stockholm Convention

• Geneva Convention

• Paris Convention

The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.

• Genocide

• Homicide

• Fratricide

• Manslaughter

The Holocaust affected __________.

• Jews

• Gypsies

• "Undesirables"

• all of the above