True or False: WW2 Chapter 22,23,25 ___1. Normandy was chosen as the site for th

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True or False: WW2 Chapter 22,23,25

___1. Normandy was chosen as the site for the Allied invasion of France because Normandy was

not well guarded by the German military.

___2. Normandy was chosen as the site for the Allied invasion of France because Eisenhower

simply refused to listen to his British allies and their preference.

___3. Operation Overlord started with approximately one million troops, then quickly dwindled

to about 100,000 troops.

___4. The Teheran Conference of 1943 redirected Allied military strength from France to Italy.

___5. The Teheran Conference of 1943 resulted in Eisenhower’s appointment as supreme

commander of the Allied expeditionary forces that would carry out the Normandy

invasion.

___6. According to Robert James Maddox, author of “The Biggest Decision: Why We Had

to Drop the Atomic Bomb,” if President Truman had formally guaranteed the Japanese

people that their emperor would retain his leadership position, the president would have been renouncing his own promises.

___7. According to Robert James Maddox, author of “The Biggest Decision: Why We Had

to Drop the Atomic Bomb,” in early August, 1945, there were more than 500,000

Japanese troops in Kyushu.

___8. The Korean War started in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea.

___9. During the Cold War both Stalin and Khrushchev believed that the United States was

using its wealth to bring large areas of the world under American political and military

control.

___10. The Nuremberg trials of 1945-1946 led most international leaders to strongly support the

use of atomic bombs, such as those used against Japan.

___11. The atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed, almost

instantly, between a total of 100,000 and 130,000 people.

___12. The atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hydrogen

Bombs.

___13. According to most scholars, the United States decided to drop the atomic bombs

            on Japan mainly because the United States wanted to strengthen its position

against the ever-growing military power of the Soviet Union

___14. According to most scholars, the United States decided to drop the atomic bombs

            on Japan mainly because the United States wanted to test its newly developed

military weapon.

___15. According to most scholars, the United States decided to drop the atomic bombs

            on Japan mainly because the United States wanted to quickly end the war and did

not want to lose thousands of American lives in an invasion of mainland Japan.

Explanation / Answer

1.False- it was consider because of its wider beach for landing 150000 mens at a time and also close enough to english ports

2. True

3. False

4. false

5. True

6. False

7. True

8. True- non communist south korean invaded by communist north korean

9. False

10. True

11. True- 129000 exactly killed

12. False

13. False

14. False

15. true

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