Quiz 5

Question 1

On ___________________Hitler would commit suicide in his underground bunker.

Answer 1

April 20 1945

Question 2

On ________________ Germany accepted the terms for an unconditional surrender.

Answer 2

May 7 1945

Question 3

______________ was proclaimed V-E Day for “Victory in Europe.”

Answer 3

May 8 1945

Question 4

On April 12 1945 while vacationing in _____________ FDR died of a stroke.

Answer 4

Warm Springs Georgia

Question 5

___________ was perfectly located, roughly halfway between the Marianas and Japan.

Answer 5

Iwo Jima

Question 6

On Iwo Jima’s ____________ was a dormant volcano with rugged terrain and rocky cliffs.

Answer 6

southern tip

Question 7

To help the B-29s hit their targets, _____1________ ordered them to drop bombs filled with _____________.

Answer 7

1. Curtis LeMay

2. napalm

Question 8

Napalm is a type of ___________.

Answer 8

jellied gasoline

Question 9

Military planners would choose ________ an island 350 miles from Japan to stockpile supplies and build up troops.

Answer 9

Okinawa

Question 10

America wanted an ______1_________, however, the Japanese people would surrender on the condition _____2______ was left in power.

Answer 10

1. unconstitutional surrender

2. Hirohito

Question 11

In 1939 _____1_______ who had fled Nazi persecution learned that German scientists had split the _______2______.

Answer 11

1. Leo Szilard a Jewish physicist

2. Uranium atom

Question 12

__________ had been the first scientist to suggest that splitting the atom might release enormous energy.

Answer 12

Szilard

Question 13

He would have _____1_________ to sight a letter Szilard had drafted and send it to ___2____.

Answer 13

1. Albert Einstein

2. FDR

Question 14

The secret American program to build an ________1_____ was code-named the _______2_______and was headed by general Leslie R. Groves.

Answer 14

1. atomic bomb

2. Manhattan Project

Question 15

The first breakthrough came in 1942 when the world’s first nuclear reactors at the _______________ came online.

Answer 15

University of Chicago

Question 16

Groves then organized a team of engineers and scientists to build an atomic bomb laboratory in ______________.

Answer 16

Los Alamos, NM.

Question 17

_____________led the team that on July 16, 1945 would test the first atomic bomb in the Proving Grounds of New Mexico.

Answer 17

Physicist. J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 18

Opposition
1.
2.
3.

Answer 18

1. William Leahy
2. Henry Stimson
3. James Byrnes

Question 19

William Leahy

Answer 19

didn’t want to use the bomb because it would kill civilians.

Question 20

Henry Stimson

Answer 20

wanted to warn the Japanese

Question 21

James Byrnes

Answer 21

wanted to drop the bomb on the Japanese without warning.

Question 22

On _______1______, a B-29 bomber named Enola gay dropped an atomic bomb code name ______2_______.

Answer 22

1. August 6, 1945

2. Little Boy

Question 23

The ______1_______ would be piloted by the son of the woman for whom the plane was named after, Paul Tibbetts.

Answer 23

1. Enola Gay

2. Paul Tibbetts

Question 24

Later the same day, the US dropped the second atomic bomb code names ________1________ on the city of ______2________ killer between 35,000 and 74,000 people.

Answer 24

1. Fat Man

2. Nagasaki

Question 25

On __________________VJ Day-Japan surrendered. Bockscar

Answer 25

August 15, 1945

Question 26

In ________1_______ the US, Britain, France, and the other Soviet Union created the ________2___________.

Answer 26

1. August 1945

2. International Military Tribunal (IMT)

Question 27

__1__ German Leaders were prosecuted at the ________________.

Answer 27

1. 22

2. Nuremberg Trials

Question 28

____1____ were acquitted ___2__, given prison sentences, and ___3____ were sentenced to death.

Answer 28

1. Three
2. 7
3. 12