End Of WWII

Question 1

European/African Theater

• 3*joint operations w/Great Britain

Answer 1

I. Operation torch - North Africa campaign

II. Operation underbelly - Italian campaign

III. Operation overlord - fortress Europe campaign (conquer Germany) -44
D-Day

Question 2

Battle of the bulge (key battle)

Answer 2

small american unit at Bastogne, heroically stops the last german offensive of the war
• Germans pushed back to Germany - Russians pushing from te east and americans / british from the west

Question 3

• Battle of Leyte gulf -

Answer 3

Japanese navy is destroyed and the Philippine islands are liberated

Question 4

• Bushido code:

Answer 4

Japanese warriors fight to the death or commit suicide - never surrender!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Navaho “code talkers” - secret US code

Question 5

USA takes the first Japanese home islands
• two of the bloodiest battles in the pacific
• Japanese fought to the death
• 5 men raise thee US flag on mt. Suribachi
• One is an SDA - Harlon block

Answer 5

Battle of Iwo Jima/Okinawa

Question 6

Manhattan project - led by chief scientist

Answer 6

USA’s secret atomic bomb program

Robert Oppenheimer

Question 7

Ebola GAY (B-29 bomber) piloted by

Answer 7

Col. Paul Tibbets Jr. - dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese’s city of hiroshima (80,000 incinerated)

Question 8

Results of WWII: (5)

Answer 8

1. 60-70 million dead - half civilians
2. Cold War - 2 competing superpowers (USA and Soviet Union)
3. Great Britain lost its empire
4. Nuclear age
5. Creation of Israel (Jewish homeland)