Winning the War (1944 - 1945)

Matching Exercise

Match each item on the left with the correct answer on the right

Meeting at which FDR and Churchill promised Stalin that they would open up a second front in Europe by spring 1944
Man with authority to say "Ok. Let's go." and send the troops attacking on D-Day
Code name for invasion of Europe
Codename for plan to convince Germans that the allied attack would come at Calais and Norway and not where it really was to happen
Fierce counterattack by the Germans in December, 1944 in area of Belgium and Luxembourg
Strategy the Allies followed in the Pacific
Meeting at which Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin in effect agreed to Soviet domination of Eastern Poland
May 8, 1945
August 14, 1945
Meeting at which Truman, Churchill and Stalin issued a declaration to Japan to surrender or be totally destroyed
Plane which dropped the first atom bomb on Japan
City in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes after the war
Place where the atom bomb was designed and built
Island in the Marianas captured by the Allies in June, 1944 that put Japan within bombing range and where Japanese civilians committed mass suicide
Suicide attacks by Japanese pilots to deliberately crash into Allied ships
8 square mile volcanic island that the Allies finally captured in March, 1945 and where they knocked out the last of the Japanese radar defenses
Island that was the last amphibious assault of the war and whose capture in June, 1945 was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific but gave the Allies a good jumping off place for the invasion of Japan
First city on which the atom bomb was dropped
Second city on which the atom bomb was dropped

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