WW2

Question 1

Who were the 3 main leaders at the Yalta Conference?

Answer 1

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin

Question 2

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, resulted in what?

Answer 2

The us entering the war

Question 3

Wolf pack

Answer 3

German U-boats because they used similar tactics when trolling the Atlantic Ocean hungrily hunting for their next target.

Question 4

Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 4

Led the manhattan project to develop nuclear weapons. aka the father of atomic bombs

Question 5

Lend Lease Policy

Answer 5

passed March 11 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United States.”

Question 6

Arcadia Conference

Answer 6

held in Washington DC from dec 22 1941- Jan 14 1942 between Roosevelt,and Churchill focused on the liberation of Europe and the discussion of the need for a declaration by the United Nations

Question 7

International Court of Justice

Answer 7

settles legal disputes submitted to it by States in accordance with international law.

Question 8

how many Americans died in the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Answer 8

2,400 people die

Question 9

describe the Cairo Conference

Answer 9

held in Cairo, Eygpt from November 23-26, 1943 between Roosevelt, Churchill and China’s Chiang Kai-Shek. It focused on the Allied support for China against Japan and saw the creation of the Cairo Declaration for postwar Asia

Question 10

Battle of Dunkirk

Answer 10

a small town on the coast of France, If it had been captured, it would have meant the loss of Britain’s only trained troops and the collapse of the Allied cause. The successful evacuation was a great boost to civilian morale and created the ‘Dunkirk spirit’ which helped Britain to fight on in the summer of 1940.

Question 11

Non-aggression Pact

Answer 11

in the night of 23-24 August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact., known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The countries agreed that they would not attack each other and secretly divided the countries that lay between them.

Question 12

which of these battles was a turning point after which the united states took the offensive in the Pacific

Answer 12

the battle of midway

Question 13

After the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 13

Japan surrendered

Question 14

After the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 14

Japan surrendered