World War II

Who was not a member of the Allied Powers

• Churchill

• Hirohito

• Roosevelt

• Stalin

Who was not a member of the Axis Powers

• Mussolini

• Stalin

• Hirohito

• Hitler

In December of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that the United States had declared war on Japan. The event that led to this decision was Japan's ____.

• Use of concentration camps

• Invasion of Poland

• Attack on Russia

• Bombing of Pearl Harbor

This picture of US soldiers raising the United States flag takes place on

• Nagasaki

• Iwo Jima

• Hiroshima

• Pearl Harbor

From 1939 to 1945, Hitler and the Nazis tried to get rid of all Jewish people. They forced Jews to live in concentration camps and killed about 6 milion people. This even in history is called the ____.

• Nationalism

• Roaring twenties

• Holocaust

• liberation

Which of the following best explains why President Harry Truman decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II?

• He wanted to be a good president

• He wanted the war to last longer

• He wanted Germany to surrender

• He wanted to save American lives

Victory in Europe (V-E Day) came after

• Truman dropped the bomb

• Japan surrendered

• Germany surrendered

• Truman became president

This poster was meant to encourage women to come into the work force. Which of the following best explains why?

• The women's rights movement convinced businesses they should hire women

• The Great Depression caused both men and women to have to work

• The Industrial Revolution created jobs only women were qualified to do

• Most men were fighting in World War II, so women took their place working in the factories

VJ Day was an important event in World War II. It was the day that ______.

• Germany invaded Poland

• Allied armies landed in France

• Japan surrendered to the US

• The German army surrendered.

On D-Day, June 6 1944, Allied forces ______

• fought the Nazi troops at Stalingrad

• Stormed the beaches of Normandy

• Sent thousands of troops to Berlin

• Took control of many Japanese islands