World War 2 Review Quiz

^{The _________ was the secret project in the United States that developed the atomic bomb}

• The New York Project
• The Manhattan Project
• The Atom Splitting Project
• The Nuclear Project

During which war did the U.S. create the atomic bomb?

• World War I
• World War II
• Korean War
• Vietnam War

What president made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in World War II?      

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman
• John F. Kennedy

Why did the United States decide to drop the bomb rather than invade Japan with soldiers?

• wanted to see if the bomb worked
•  did not think they could defeat the Japanese
• did not have the soldiers or weapons left to attack Japan
• They estimated that 500,000 to 1 million Allied soldiers would die in an invasion

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the 2 cities bombed with the Atomic bomb?

• True
• False

WWII began after Germany invaded

• Poland

• France

• Belgium

• The Soviet Union

Which of the following American victories was a turning point in the Pacific?

• Battle of Midway

• Battle of Stalingrad

• D-Day

• Battle of Britain

Millions of European Jews were sent to ________ where they were killed in gas chambers.

• Concentration Camps

• Ghettos

• Germany

• Russia

Americans at home helped the troops by ___ goods such as food,clothing, and oil.

• Selling

• Rationing

• Burning

• Trading

Anti-Semitism

• discrimination towards Jewish people

• Adolf Hitler’s name for a “pure” German race

• a political philosophy where complete power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are lost

• an American propaganda campaign used to convince women to work in factories