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Question 1

President Harry Truman

Answer 1

The president who presided over the end of World War II (ordered droppings of atomic bombs).”

Question 2

Island Hopping

Answer 2

A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others.

Question 3

Kamikaze

Answer 3

Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships.

Question 4

genocide

Answer 4

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group.

Question 5

D-Day Invasion- June 6, 1944

Answer 5

Allied troops landed at Normandy Beach to start liberating France from German control.

Question 6

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 6

Dropped on Japan on August 6th and 9th, 1945. The U.S. hoped these bombs would scare Japan into surrendering and prevent the U.S. from having to invade Japan.

Question 7

Holocaust

Answer 7

Large-scale killing during World War Two. It called for the elimination of Jews, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.

Question 8

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 8

Trials of the Nazi leaders after World War Two. It showed that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime.

Question 9

United Nations

Answer 9

Organization established after World War Two to replace the League of Nations. The headquarters is in New York City and it was established to maintain world peace, deal with global issues, help newly-independent nations and economic development.