Quiz 5 Flashcards
On ___________________Hitler would commit suicide in his underground bunker.
April 20 1945
On ________________ Germany accepted the terms for an unconditional surrender.
May 7 1945
______________ was proclaimed V-E Day for “Victory in Europe.”
May 8 1945
On April 12 1945 while vacationing in _____________ FDR died of a stroke.
Warm Springs Georgia
___________ was perfectly located, roughly halfway between the Marianas and Japan.
Iwo Jima
On Iwo Jima’s ____________ was a dormant volcano with rugged terrain and rocky cliffs.
southern tip
To help the B-29s hit their targets, _____1________ ordered them to drop bombs filled with _____________.
- Curtis LeMay
2. napalm
Napalm is a type of ___________.
jellied gasoline
Military planners would choose ________ an island 350 miles from Japan to stockpile supplies and build up troops.
Okinawa
America wanted an ______1_________, however, the Japanese people would surrender on the condition _____2______ was left in power.
- unconstitutional surrender
2. Hirohito
In 1939 _____1_______ who had fled Nazi persecution learned that German scientists had split the _______2______.
- Leo Szilard a Jewish physicist
2. Uranium atom
__________ had been the first scientist to suggest that splitting the atom might release enormous energy.
Szilard
He would have _____1_________ to sight a letter Szilard had drafted and send it to ___2____.
- Albert Einstein
2. FDR
The secret American program to build an ________1_____ was code-named the _______2_______and was headed by general Leslie R. Groves.
- atomic bomb
2. Manhattan Project
The first breakthrough came in 1942 when the world’s first nuclear reactors at the _______________ came online.
University of Chicago
Groves then organized a team of engineers and scientists to build an atomic bomb laboratory in ______________.
Los Alamos, NM.
_____________led the team that on July 16, 1945 would test the first atomic bomb in the Proving Grounds of New Mexico.
Physicist. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Opposition
1.
2.
3.
- William Leahy
- Henry Stimson
- James Byrnes
William Leahy
didn’t want to use the bomb because it would kill civilians.
Henry Stimson
wanted to warn the Japanese
James Byrnes
wanted to drop the bomb on the Japanese without warning.
On _______1______, a B-29 bomber named Enola gay dropped an atomic bomb code name ______2_______.
- August 6, 1945
2. Little Boy
The ______1_______ would be piloted by the son of the woman for whom the plane was named after, Paul Tibbetts.
- Enola Gay
2. Paul Tibbetts
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.
- Fat Man
2. Nagasaki
On __________________VJ Day-Japan surrendered. Bockscar
August 15, 1945
In ________1_______ the US, Britain, France, and the other Soviet Union created the ________2___________.
- August 1945
2. International Military Tribunal (IMT)
__1__ German Leaders were prosecuted at the ________________.
- 22
2. Nuremberg Trials
____1____ were acquitted ___2__, given prison sentences, and ___3____ were sentenced to death.
- Three
- 7
- 12
