WWII EOC review

The practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war.

• Genocide
• Mein Kampf
• Appeasement
• Blitzkrieg

What date did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?

• June 6, 1945

• November 9, 1938

• May 8, 1945

• December 7, 1941

What meeting was meant to help reshape Europe for after the war?

• Nuremberg Trials

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Paris

• Yalta Conference

Which Supreme Court case challenged the internment of Japanese citizens?

• Roe v Wade

• McColloch v Maryland

• Plessey v Ferguson

• Korematsu v United States

What was the Allied strategy in the Pacific known as?

• island-hopping

• island-jumping

• appeasement

• rationing

Where did the largest land-sea-air invasion in world history take place?

• Hiroshima, Japan

• Normandy, France

• Nagasaki, Japan

• Berlin, Germany

What event led to the US joining WWII?

• Germany invaded Poland.

• Germany sent Mexico a secret telegram.

• Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

• Germany bombed Pearl Harbor.

Which battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

• Battle of Singapore

• Battle of the Coral Sea

• Battle of Guadalcanal

• Battle of Midway

Which two Japanese cities were destroyed by atom bombs?

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Kyoto and Tokyo

• Nagasaki and Kyoto

• Tokyo and Hiroshima

The United States president who made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Harry Truman