UVictory and Consequences Unit 9 test

Question 1

By August 1944, which city was liberated by the Allied forces?

Answer 1

Paris

Question 2

What was Hitler’s reaction to the Allied advancement into Belgium and Luxembourg?

Answer 2

Drafted every man 16-60 and planned one last desperate attack

Question 3

What was the last major battle in Europe?

Answer 3

Battle of the Bulge

Question 4

Why were the Germans able to create a bulge in the Allied lines?

Answer 4

Heavy snow grounded American planes and dense forest region was lightly guarded/defended

Question 5

Why did the Battle of the Bulge so costly?

Answer 5

Heavy casualties 80,000 Americans – 120,000 Germans

Question 6

What happens to Hitler after he retreats to his underground bunker?

Answer 6

Commits Suicide

Question 7

What do the Allies celebrate on May 8, 1945?

Answer 7

VE Day (Victory in Europe day)

Question 8

What happened to President Roosevelt on April 12, 1945?

Answer 8

Died of a stroke

Question 9

Who will succeed President Roosevelt?

Answer 9

Harry Truman

Question 10

What horrific discovery did the Allies find as they moved through Germany?

Answer 10

Concentration camps where the Nazi’s attempted to exterminate the Jews and other groups (Holocaust)

Question 11

Where were Jews made to live within the German territory?

Answer 11

Ghettos and concentration camps

Question 12

What was Hitler’s “final solution” plan?

Answer 12

Genocide or extermination of an entire group of people (Jews)

Question 13

What were the living conditions like in the camps and ghettos?

Answer 13

Families were forced apart, prisoners, poorly fed and clothed, disease, hunger, slave labor, murder, shot and buried.

Question 14

What happens to most elderly, children and sick people sent to the concentration camps?

Answer 14

They were sent to the gas chambers

Question 15

What was one of the most notorious and largest death camps?

Answer 15

Auschwitz

Question 16

What other non-Jews were murdered by the Nazis?

Answer 16

Gypsies, slaves, political opponents, people with physical or mental disabilities and Homosexuals

Question 17

About how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?

Answer 17

6 million to 11 million

Question 18

Why were the American and the Allies afraid to attack Japan’s mainland?

Answer 18

Invasion would result in more than 1 million casualties.

Question 19

What was the Manhattan Project?

Answer 19

Develop the Atomic bomb

Question 20

Where was the first atomic bomb tested?

Answer 20

New Mexico desert

Question 21

What did President Truman give orders to use after the Japanese refused to surrender unconditionally?

Answer 21

Drop the A bomb

Question 22

On August 6, 1945, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped and atomic bomb on what city?

Answer 22

Hiroshima

Question 23

After the Japanese refused to surrender, 3 days later the Americans dropped a second bomb on what city?

Answer 23

Nagasaki

Question 24

When did the Japanese finally surrender?

Answer 24

August 15, 1945

Question 25

Approximately how many people were killed throughout the duration of World War II?

Answer 25

Over 50 million - Soviet Union had the most