Social Studies WWII Test Study Guide Flashcards
How long did WWII last?
6 years
How many people were killed in WWII?
50-56 Million
What is appeasement?
Avoiding war by giving in to demands
What is a kamikaze
A Japanese suicide bomber
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
The first group of Black pilots in the Army Air Corps.
Who were the code breakers?
A group of Navajo men who were recruited by the Army so they could use their native language to communicate without the code being broken.
Tell about Doolittles Raid
Doolittle wanted to send an aircraft carrier as close as possible to Japan without being detected and conduct an attack.
Why did the U.S. put Japanese Americans in internment camps?
The U.S. thought they were spies for Japan.
Who became President after FDR died?
Harry S. Truman
What decision did the new president make after FDR died about the atomic bomb?
To drop the atomic bomb on Japan
Name the atomic bombs. Who was the scientist who figured out the process to the atomic bomb? What famous friend did he share it to?
Fat Man, Little Boy, Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein
Leader of Germany
Adolf Hitler
Leader of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Leader of Japan
Hirohito
Leaders of the U.S.
FDR, Truman
Leader of Italy
Benito Mussolini
When was Poland invaded
September 1st 1939
When was France invaded
May 1940
When was Britan invaded
July-October 1940
When was Pearl Harbor Attacked
December 7th 1941
Nuremberg Trial and Laws
November 20th 1945
When did the US declare war on Japan
December 8th 1941
When did Germany surrender to the Allies
May 5th 1945
When was the DDay invasion
June 6th 1944
