Election of 1944 and End of WWII

Question 1

Democrat Candidate (1944)

Answer 1

FDR

TRUMAN NEW VP!!!

Question 2

Republican Candidate (1944)

Answer 2

NY Governor Thomas Dewey

Question 3

Why did FDR win?

Answer 3

War was going well.

Question 4

How did FDR die

Answer 4

Hemorrhage of the brain during portrait

Question 5

Manhattan Project

Answer 5

Einstein warned FDR of German atomic bomb making.

$2 billion for project.

Created atomic bomb.

Question 6

Lead scientist of Manhattan

Answer 6

Oppenheimer

Question 7

General of Manhattan

Answer 7

Groves

Question 8

Hiroshima killed how many?

Answer 8

180,000 total

70,000 immediately

Question 9

Why Nagasaki?

Answer 9

Emperor Hirohito refused to surrender.

Question 10

Nagasaki death?

Answer 10

80,000 total

Question 11

Nagasaki bomb type

Answer 11

Pu-239

Question 12

Who was in charge of Africa and Italy missions?

Answer 12

Eisenhower

Question 13

What happened to Mussolini?

Answer 13

Overthrown. Captured from escape and murdered by firing squad with mistress. Hung upside after to be yelled at.

Question 14

D-Day Date

Answer 14

June 6th, 1944

Question 15

D-Day led by

Answer 15

Eisenhower

Question 16

D-Day Events

Answer 16

4,600 ships.
Normandy, France. Largest seaborne invasion in history.

Led to driving the Nazis out and an Allied victory in Europe.

Question 17

D-Day Pilots Targeted (2)

Answer 17

• Railroads

- Gasoline Plants

Question 18

Jew deaths in Holocaust

Answer 18

6 million

Question 19

Other deaths in Holocaust

Answer 19

5 million

Question 20

Hitler Date of Death

Answer 20

April 30th, 1945

Question 21

Hitler Death Events

Answer 21

In 3 floor underground bunker. Using Amphetamines. Shot himself and wife drank poison. Some skeptical, but USSR had skull and matched it with dental work.

Question 22

V-E Day

Answer 22

May 8, 1945

After suicide, the new general issued a surrender.

Question 23

VE German General

Answer 23

Jodl

Question 24

How many concentration camps?

Answer 24

20

Question 25

Death Camps?

Answer 25

4

Question 26

List of those killed

Answer 26

• Gypsies
• Alcoholics
• Gays
• Slaviks
• Criminals

Question 27

Who got to live in camps?

Answer 27

Those that could help the war effort.

Question 28

Yalta Conference Date

Answer 28

February 1945

Question 29

Yalta Conference

Answer 29

• USSR to help in Japan

- United Nations

Question 30

Stalin put __________ in Eastern countries, but promised fair and free elections.

Answer 30

Soldiers.

Question 31

United Nations start Date

Answer 31

October 1945

Question 32

Stalin said he would help with _________.

Answer 32

Japan

Question 33

VJ Day

Answer 33

September 2nd, 1945

Question 34

Potsdam Date and What happened

Answer 34

Summer 1945.
-Divided Germany in 4 parts.
-Berlin split in 4 parts.
Later combined into East and West.