World Flash cards U7.4

After WWII ended, leaders of Germany, Italy and Japan were

• imprisoned and later released on bail

• put in ghettos under house arrest

• put on trial for crimes against humanity and executed

• deported to America to serve time on the Raft

United States President Franklin D Roosevelt died

• after WWII ended and the Japanese surrendered

• before the invasion of Normandy France

• after Adolph Hitler and the surrender of Germany

• shortly before Soviet troops entered Berlin Germany and the war in Europe ended

The end of the war in the Pacific is known as

• Peace Day

• V.J. Day

• the Blessed Day

• Armistice Day

The United States airplane that delivered the nuclear bombs was

• B-19

• B-29

• P-51

• F-18

The Potsdam Declaration

• was attended by Churchill, Stalin and Franklin D Roosevelt

• officially ended WWII

• specified the Allies would warn Japan before using the new atomic bomb

• officially declared war against Germany and Japan by the United States

The biggest reasons President Truman decided to use nuclear bombs on Japan was his belief that it would end the war sooner and save

• $1 trillion dollars

• 5 more years of war

• over 1 million American soldiers' lives

• the loyalty of Japanese-American citizens

It is believed that _____ Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

After WWII, the weak League of Nations organization was replaced with the _________ led by the United States.

• United Nations

  U.N.)

• Justice League (J.L.)

• North American Treaty Organization

  (NATO)

• Organization of Free States (O.F.S.)

Dr. Robert Oppenheimer was

• a physicist who led the atomic bomb project for the United States

• a German mathematician captured during the wear

• a biologist who created chemical weapons during the war

• a chemist whio developed jet fuel during WWII

The planned extermination of Jewish people in death camps was called

• The Holocaust

• The Final Solution

• The Potsdam Declaration

• The Nuremburg Act