WWII Final Test Review

What event liberated Europe from Hitler

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Invasion of Normandy in France

What victory in the Pacific ended the Japanese threat to Hawaii, and encouraged island hoping

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Battle of Midway

Truman's reason's to drop the atomic bomb on Japan

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~fear that an invasion of Japan would mean death for thousands of American soldiers

~refusal of Japan to surrender in spite of their losses

~thousands of American lives already lost in the war

What was the Manhattan Project?

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the plan to develop the atomic bomb

Name locations the United States drop the atomic bomb?

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Allied invasion of what geographic territory was given the code name Overlord.

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Nazi-occupied Europe

Truman's goal in deciding to drop the atomic bomb was to do what?

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end the war and save American lives

On what island in the Pacific did the last major battle take place?

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Okinawa

Name the battle in North Africa that the allied defeated Nazi General Rommel.

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El Alamein

What is a kamikaze?

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A Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives to make a deliberate suicidal crash on enemy targets is