04-27-09 was the dropping of the atomic bomb on japan right or wrong? justify your answer

04-27-09

• Was the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan right or wrong? Justify your answer.

World War II

Review

The United States, Great Britain, and eventually the Soviet Union

made up the?

• Allied Powers

Germany, Italy, and Japan made up what is known as the ?

• Axis Powers

Who was the leader of the United States during World War II?

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Harry S. Truman

Who was the leader of Great Britain during WWII?

• Winston Churchill

Who was the leader of Germany during WWII?

• Adolf Hitler– Signed non-

aggression pact with the leader of the Soviet Union.

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII?

• Joseph Stalin

What political group did Hitler lead that took power in Germany?

• The Nazis

What policy did European nations adopt to meet the “resonable demands” of Adolf Hitler?

• Appeasement

One of the appeasements given to Hitler was granting him the northern part of Czechoslovakia also known as…

• Sudetenland

Great Britain and France declared war on Germany when they

invaded whom?

• Poland

“Lightning war” which used panzer divisions supported by air attacks

was known as…

• Blitzkrieg

Hitler’s “final solution” included the building of concentration camps to help exterminate the

Jews in a practice known as?

• Genocide– They also killed

gypsies and homosexuals

The slaughter of Jews by Nazi’s became known as what?

• The Holocaust

Who led Hitler’s SS which was in charge of the extermination of the

Jews.

• Heinrich Himmler

The most well known and deadly of concentration camps was?

• Auschwitz

Deciding to attack the Soviet Union was a mistake because just like

WWI it created what?

• A two front war– In addition to that soon

after Japan (Germany’s ally attacked the United States which forced Germany to declare war on the U.S. as well)

At which battle did the Germans loose their entire Sixth Army,

considered to be the best German troops.

• The Battle of Stalingrad

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The German Airforce was known as what?

• The Luftwaffe

As the war continued the Luftwaffe was forced to bomb military targets

as well as what?

• Civilian Populations

Why did the United States begin to cut off relations with Japan?

• Their aggressive expansion in the East. – U.S. cut off their

supply of oil to the Japanese.

At the beginning of the war the United States practiced a strict

policy of ?

• Isolationism and Neutrality

December 7,1941 the Japanese conducted a surprise attack on

what U.S. territory?

• Pearl Harbor

What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

• The Battle

of Midway

All the way

Midway

The biggest offensive in history staged to beat Germany was know

as?

• D-day– Main invasion force

landed on the beaches of Normandy in France

Eventually Japan used the “divine wind” or _________to defend their

country.

• Kamikaze

In order to defeat Japan the U.S. used the practice of ?

• Island hopping

One of the last and most strategic islands taken towards the end of

the war was?

• Iwo Jima

Which U.S. President decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

and Nagasaki?

• Harry S. Truman

What type of plane dropped the atomic bomb on Japan?

• B-29 Superfortress

The Yalta conference established the creation of what?

• The United Nations

At the Tehran Conference the Allies decided to do what?

• Make a final offensive on postwar Germany

At the Postdam Conference, Truman demanded that there be _________

throughout Eastern Europe.

• Freely elected governments

The period of tension between East and West following WWII was

known as the?

• Cold War