12.4

Question 1

Hedgerows -

Answer 1

dirt wall

Question 2

Battle of the Bulge -

Answer 2

Last ditch attempt by hitler to push allies back

Question 3

What was V-E Day -

Answer 3

Victory in Europe

Question 4

April 30th

Answer 4

Hitler commits suicide

Question 5

Who became president after FDR -

Answer 5

Harry S Truman

Question 6

What two islands did the US take as they prepared to invade Japan? -

Answer 6

1.Iwo Jima
2.Okinawa

Question 7

Napalm -

Answer 7

jellied gasoline

Question 8

Who led the firebombing campaign of Tokyo -

Answer 8

Gen Curtis Lemay

Question 9

Jewish physicist learned Germans had split the uranium atom -

Answer 9

Leo Szilard

Question 10

Manhattan Project -

Answer 10

was a secret program to build atomic bombs

Question 11

Who led the Manhattan Project -

Answer 11

Led by Gen Leslie Groves

Question 12

This physicist led the team that detonated the first atomic bomb -

Answer 12

Physicist Robert Oppenheimer

Question 13

What was the name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb? -

Answer 13

Enola gay

Question 14

America dropped atomic bombs on what two Japanese cities? -

Answer 14

• Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Question 15

What was the goal of the International Military Tribunal? -

Answer 15

Punish German and Japanese war criminals

Question 16

Who was the Japanese emperor? -

Answer 16

Hirohito