Chapter 28: Global Configuration: World War II, 1939-1945

US President Harry Truman

________ authorized the use of atomic bombs on Japan on August 6, 1945.

Air raids

________ by America destroyed Japans navy, industrial plants, and parts of its cities.

German troops

________ occupied all of Czechoslovakia by 1939.

Poland

Germany invaded ________ on September 1, 1939.

Hitler

________ invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941 and attacked Greece.

German forces

________ attacked france on June 5, 1940.

British

________ and France declared war against Germany on September 3, 1939.

Germany

________ and Italy declared war on U.S. on December 11, 1941.

Bombs

________ killed over 100, 000 people with radiation from ________ continuing to kill people long after they were dropped.

Extermination

________ by gas was introduced after death by firing squads for the Jews was deemed too inefficient.

extermination camp

First ________ was built in Chelmno, Poland in 1941.

Hitler

May 1939: ________ formed a military alliance with Mussolini.

Germany

________ surrendered on May 7, 1945, ending the war in Europe.